giant mealworms bad for quail?

[diggerduck]

I have been doing a lot of reading on different sites and it seems that "giant " mealworms are treated with a growth hormone to keep them from puapating.... If that is true, wouldn't they be a bad choice to give quail?? You are what you eat.

 

[Dirk Chesterfield]

I keep hearing conflicting stories about Giant Mealworms.
I personally wouldn't feed them to my birds but that's my opinion.




I wouldn't risk anything that would keep my quail from pupating.

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[joe125]

Your birds are what they eat, so if something they eat has growth hormones in it, it will wind up in your birds. I'm not really a huge fan of feeding any meal worms to "coturnix", so my answer is YES. Giant meal worms could be bad for quail.
P.S.
If you are interested in starting a breeding colony of meal worms, then you should defiantly avoid the giant ones!

24-30% COMPLETE GBS will kick the living poop, out of a bucket of meal worms! If you can find that, then you are doing fine

Save the meal worms for the gecko!

 

[Wifezilla]

IF you can find it. I didn't realize how spoiled I was having access to 28% protein starter until I couldn't get it anymore.

 

[joe125]

Quote:
I'm just one spoiled quail raiser my friend....30% protein GBS on a whim, and no folding, bending, spindling, or mutilating anything! No meal worms either.

I must be the luckiest person on the planet!