Free rein feeding method

[U_Stormcrow]

Orange?

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. If its not in an 8 color box of crayons, chances are, I have trouble identifying it)

 

[Patiocoturnix]

Orange?

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. If its not in an 8 color box of crayons, chances are, I have trouble identifying it)

I’m pretty much the same way

 

[Ital]

Quite excited about adding this to the menu. Should help with coccidiosis, mareks and egg production.
Shame the leaves aren’t available to buy, 20% protein fresh weight. Have a couple of plants growing so will be able to harvest my own at some point.

 

[Ital]

Hello everyone still following this, I’ve stopped feeding my quail this way and thought I’d better update this thread as it’s been a while.

After much trial and error I eventually realised that my quail didn’t have mareks or Newcastle virus as I’d suspected, when I started giving them sun dried oyster mushrooms they all miraculously recovered so I guess it was vit d deficiency which causes lots of similar symptoms, I keep them indoors under leds so looking back it’s not surprising they weren’t getting enough.

Somewhere between what they like eating and what I’d like them to eat I’ve developed two recipes, one 22% and one 28% protein, both are low lectin, soy, gluten, legume, and fish free.

I didn’t explain my reason for taking this on and probably should have done in the first post, I have multiple autoimmune diseases and via an elimination diet realised that lectins were triggering it, unfortunately almost all livestock is fed on wheat soy and corn laced with weed killer so there’s really very little left for me to choose between for my lunch, even the farm I get my a2 100% pasture fed dairy from supplements their ‘pasture fed’ chickens with a ‘soy free ration’ containing high lectin grains.

I don’t think anyone has ever developed a low lectin recipe for quail feed before as I looked everywhere so this might well be the world’s first.
I’ll make a new thread for it as they are thriving and no longer choosing what to eat.

It’s not cheap, but if you have to avoid lectins then you are probably already used to paying double for everything and lots of the ingredients are easy to grow which reduces the cost a bit.

To be updated with a link when I get around to making a new thread..

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Since Lectins are present in essentially all grains, most if not all legumes, potatoes, tomatoes, the various squash & melons, and of course seeds... Yeah. Can be mitigated by various processing methods.

Still, quite the challenge.

Sorry you are so afflicted.

 

[Ital]

Since Lectins are present in essentially all grains, most if not all legumes, potatoes, tomatoes, the various squash & melons, and of course seeds... Yeah. Can be mitigated by various processing methods.

Still, quite the challenge.

Sorry you are so afflicted.

It’s really complicated, a massive learning curve. They are all different, some problematic, some not. Some can be broken down to a certain extent with fermentation or high heat and humidity (pressure cooker) others can’t.

I’m pretty dependent on fish already so didn’t want to include this either as there are issues with pollutants. Everyone was right, quail are highly sensitive to nutritional deficiency, it wasn’t easy to get right.

Hopefully posting it here will help others with autoimmune issues who want to keep quail to avoid the struggle I’ve had developing it.