Is this diet okay for my button quail chicks?

[ButtonBag]

I have a button quail chick who is 3 days old, and only seems to be doing watery poops, and the last one had a couple of bubbles. Admittedly I haven't seen it poop that many times, so hopefully I am only seeing the cecal ones by chance (assuming quail do cecal poops like chickens?), but I wanted to check that their diet isn't causing problems. It also makes a little wet fart sounds when it poops which is adorable, but hopefully not a sign of any issues!

All 6 of the chicks are fed with a 22% non-medicated turkey starter crumb (ground up) and I give them a milk-bottle cap of chopped chicken egg (yolk and white) to share daily, it's probably about a quarter of a medium sized egg. They always have a dish of bottled spring water available, which I rinse and refill whenever I see poop in it. This particular chick seems to eat and drink well like the rest.

They sometimes like to stand right under the heat lamp, and sleep huddled together, so I don't think overheating is the problem. Well, I'm hoping there isn't a problem at all and I just haven't seen this one's normal poops yet! Any insight is very much appreciated.

 

[nchls school]

Just my opinion and one others may not share. I mix the hard boiled egg, minced, with the mash and add ground up dried mealworms. I fed more egg than you, but not sure by how much. With all my chicks, regardless of specie, I take 4 cups of mash, ground to the fineness that the specie requires, add 6 minced hardboiled eggs, and a couple big handfuls of mealworms, mix it up good. I feed as needed and keep the extra mixture refrigerated until it's used up.

 

[ButtonBag]

That's interesting, can you give them mealworms that young? I'm just a little worried as this same chick has just done another small, fairly wet poop with the same farting sound. It's quite light in colour though, I can't see blood or anything.

 

[nchls school]

That's interesting, can you give them mealworms that young? I'm just a little worried as this same chick has just done another small, fairly wet poop with the same farting sound. It's quite light in colour though, I can't see blood or anything.

Most definitely chicks can have dried meal worms. Another food I used with buttons is a pan of sod-greens, roots, dirt, worms, insects, etc. Just be sure it has no bad chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, car oil, etc.) in it.

 

[ButtonBag]

There's a place near me that sells bags of dried mealworms that say "for wild birds only"... there's no reason I couldn't give these to my buttons is there?

https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-wild-bird-dried-mealworms-90g/p/0412118

 

[nchls school]

I would assume this to mean not for human consumption. With the world's wide diversity of cultures there are those that use meal worms as part of their diet and there are recipes online.

They should be just fine for your quail.

 

[ButtonBag]

That's what I assumed, thanks so much for your thoughts!