What do i feed my newly hatched button quail?? HELP!!

Concur with what jbobs said. Have been raising buttons for years. We feed ours Dumor Chick Starter, has about 24 percent protein. We grind it up in a coffee grinder and put on the bottom of the brooder. Chicks will naturally start to peck and are great foragers. Never added water to their food. We use a waterer and put marbles/small pebbles around the bottom so they can't drown. They will peck at the water and should be well on their way of drinking and eating within an hour of hatching. If not then something is wrong with the baby. Sometimes they die, and this is perfectly natural. First several times it broke my heart, but over time I learned it's part of the cycle...

We personally don't give ours medicated feed...the buttons started acting very weird when we did it one time...so we stopped. Just what works for us though...
 
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