Home made quail feed? Does anyone make/mill thier own?

[Mama Austranought]

Thanks Mek. I don't think I said - but I am in Perth, WA. As for Lauke I buy their breadmix but didn't know they did feed as well. Thompson and Redwood, Triangle agencies and Wesfeed are a few feed manufacturers over here. City Farmers is about the only place to buy feed close by here, and I have checked prices and they all are about the same (for good quality chook feed anyway!) Are you in OZ? Do you do quails? Just wondering if you could give me any other pearls of wisdom! PM me if you want.

 

[SunnyAlberta]

Look for hemp seed. Its high in protein. Hulled hemp seed is fine textured. I'm mixing it with lower protein feed.

 

[kimberly r]

I have been working on making a homemade high protein non GMO feed using sunflower seeds, flax seeds, oats, and hemp seeds with free range foraging area. I will up date to share how the egg laying goes with it, as all the store feeds have corn, soy, wheat, and canola! Would love to hear of other natural homemade mixes that work well for quails.

 

[zbraswell92]

I'm using natural 16% layer feed and add organic fish bonemeal (for added Ca, Ph, and Omegas) and organic feathermeal to boost protein.
For the quail chicks, I use natural chicken chick feed and added feather meal. The feathermeal I get is 80% protein. I use roughly 3.5:1 ratio of chick crumble to the OFM.
I get the feathermeal online from amazon.com
Once I offered the layer without the added animal proteins and my Cortunix just looked and me and I swear they were saying, "Ok, what happened?! Where's the good stuff?"
Lol
My chicks (chickens, ducks, and now quail) seems to grow like crazy on it too.
Quail need animal protein.

 

[junglemama]

Hi! I found this thread searching for the same info. as i live in Belize, Central America and there is even LESS selection here in the way of feed.. pretty much chick starter or standard songbird seed... so my thought is, what if I use the chick starter as a base and mix in amaranth seeds (It grows wild here) 50 50 do you think that would up the protein content enough??/ I am new to raising quail and so far have just fed them straight chick starter which they have done okay on.. but I think they woudl lay more etc if I had something better.. anyone know of a nutritional analysis for the required feed ie how much protein etc? that way i could get a better idea of how much of what to add etc.. Thanks!

 

[luvburds]

I'm using natural 16% layer feed and add organic fish bonemeal (for added Ca, Ph, and Omegas) and organic feathermeal to boost protein.
For the quail chicks, I use natural chicken chick feed and added feather meal. The feathermeal I get is 80% protein. I use roughly 3.5:1 ratio of chick crumble to the OFM.
I get the feathermeal online from amazon.com
Once I offered the layer without the added animal proteins and my Cortunix just looked and me and I swear they were saying, "Ok, what happened?! Where's the good stuff?"
Lol
My chicks (chickens, ducks, and now quail) seems to grow like crazy on it too.
Quail need animal protein.

what are the ratios you use for adult birds, I'm having a hard time getting organic quail feed in Georgia but 16 Percent is plentiful.

 

[Feathersnerd]

Hi,
I had quails a few times and have tried many mixes. Ok I admit most did not work very well. But they all survived. Once I thought they meant milo the drink instead of milo the grain...... Any way the point is I have found that chick starter works well for me if i supplement it with egg (mash it all up and cook it and then mash it again) including shell when they are laying. All of my other amazing mixes made them grow slower. But I realize that egg is expensive when feeding large amount of quails.
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[bush]

I seen a video on utube where a lady could not find high protein feed in her area. What she turned to was dry cat food ground up fine it was 30% protein. She said the birds liked it. I don't know how it worked long term.

 

[Lobzi]

Will hamster food work for quail? Ive been offered two bags for free so I thought Id give it a try. Will I need to food process it or crush it? I have young, about 4 week old, Coturnix quail. Im feeding them scrambled egg and wild bird seed too.
Hamster feed will be just an addition.

 

[shimzilla]

I feed mine chick crumb mixed with finch seed then chuck eggs or mealworms and some veg in occasionally, seems to work, I gave my quails layers mash and that worked well, lots of eggs then lol