What Vegetables Can You Feed to Quail - The SR Quail Update 7-17-17 

my wife works at a sushi restaurant and we get the leftover sushi to feed my chickens and quail. they love it. and i love it because it saves me money on feed.

Hi Chris I raise my quail outside like you and I put a light at night and all the bugs go toward it and the quail see them eat the bugs plenty of protein at night

.. on hot days... cold watermelon or slices of cantaloupe are good too =)

I like to give my quail watermelon. I trim the rind leaving little white and cut it into 1"+ slabs... sometimes I even take a bite out of the middle. I used slabbed cucumbers with the skin pealed (mostly), zucchini logs, and halved cherry tomatoes. I've also picked wild strawberries for them on our morning walks. I've planted wild strawberry in my 25' flyway aviary. I throw in a millet stick occasionally and I look for plants that produce berries they may find in the wild and toss those in there. I supplement my feeders with cracked corn and give them a dried bug treat in the feed trough a few times a week or every time I refill my GQF feeder. The one thing to consider... how to feed them things like worms in a 1/2" hardware cloth floor that doesn't fall through before they get to eat it (like halved grapes and cherry tomatoes). I alternate food treat days with sandbox days. I use bear qt paint can boxes I get from when they restock Home Depot shelves for my sandbox. I used to cut the face off of family size cereal boxes leaving a small lip to help keep the sand in the box. I save old coffee grounds to add to my sand mix instead of dirt. 5 parts play sand 1 to 2 parts dried coffee grounds, 1 part firepit ash, and 1/2 part "food grade" diatomaceous earth. They love it

Mine love dandelions. Clover sounds great! Will try to see if they like them as well. Thanks nice videos~ Lots of GREAT tips. 👍

For my quail I have him in a guinea pig cage filled with dirt. I dig up fresh plants that have seeds and patches of grass and clovers for him to eat and he loves it. I replant is cage once a week I also catch him small grasshoppers and pill bugs and ather small insects. He even has a sand pit in his cage! Soon once the new quail hatch and are old enough I'll be doing it more often. Lol I do enjoy it because they are happy!🤗💓

I like how you always chuckle when you say "...or heck, even in a spare room in your house."

Hi Chris, got my quail eggs today and there in the incubator. I'll keep you posted!

Good tip about the avocado! I did not know that. I am doing lots of research before building a hutch and buying a few birds or fertilized eggs. Taking my time to learn about them before the spring.

The pet shop in my neighborhood sells little boxes of crickets and the quail love it. They don't seem interested in worms or any kind, but they have fun hunting and eating the crickets. Enjoying your videos in San Francisco, CA

Love the quail videos. Wish there was more.

i really like all your videos, so informative. Glad I stumbled onto your channel.

No chocolate 🍫! u made me snicker! I’m glad I don’t have to share my chocolate when I get quail! I happy to learn through that I’m going to be able to share many of my garden veggies w them!

Chris, Quail Rock Star!! thanks for the info!!

Great video. Just subscribed. Getting my quail in a few weeks!

Great vid man, straight to the point excellent.

Thank you Chris just starting you have been very helpful God bless

Very informative.... Cucumber... got it... Will feed my quails today. Thanks

Hi from Srilanka the treats for my quails are spinach and S fly lava. All my Kichen waste goes into the lava box and on a daily basis they get the protein.

'treat them like chickens'- correct! when there is a discount on pasta I usually stock up and cook them some throughout the week (not to much). they love it. good info!

Hey just watched you last live video, been packing for moving day and unfortunately we were unable to log on while you were live. First off Great Videos very useful!!! You mentioned you might add ducks. We raised ducks for a short time, maintenance was too much for us personally, so just thought we would mention a couple things in case you aren't already aware. They need a lot of water and if you are going to use a pool rather than dig a small pond, they use the bathroom almost every time they get in the pool we had to fully clean our pool 2 times a day every morning from their night swimming and every evening from their day swimming. They seem to be awake a lot through the night. And the small kiddy plastic blue pool you can get from dollar store was okay with two ducks at a time, they eat constantly and we allowed ours to stay in a fenced area rather than a duck coop they love to forage. They can be very messy, lots of clean up with them unless they are free range with pond access. If you hold, pet them often from ducklings to adulthood they did very well with our kids. However for meat raising its much slower than quail and rabbits. If you incubate them you might have good production after they start laying but if you allow them to hatch their own eggs you might not get many ducklings per year. They might be 5 to 7 months before they start laying of course that depends on the breed and individual ducks. For us they required too much work (2 to 4 hours a day in fenced area) and feed. Im sure it could probably work out in the long run. Buying adults might be better to jumpstart production but you want to make sure to ask seller about their social behavior to ensure your children don't get hurt, some ducks can be aggressive, my husband had a co-worker that ran into that problem. One would run after and attack his wife and son every time they walked outside. Everyone my husband has delt with says duck are high maintenance. Hope that's helpful!!!

You should totally make a video on what rabbits, quail eat and what they can and can’t eat

I grow Butternut Squash and Oregano specifically for my poultry. I plant it in late May so that its still fresh because I will boil pieces and make it into a warm slop for my birds during the winter months. It also helps supplement greens when the grass is dead.

i will be moving within half a year and am hoping to get a garden, when i do i plan to make a simple run for them and use part of it as a compost pile. (avoiding toxic plants of course) my idea was that that way they'll have access to vegetable scraps and the worms that live in there, and will probably keep the compost seed and snail free, and since i eat eggs a lot, quails seem a suitable source that won't annoy the neighbors. thanks for all your informative videos, still looking for an in depth guide on making complete feed myself, to press cost of keeping them healthy.

Thanks, Since I have started raising quail, this good to know.

I have hatched quail and chuckers for years and they are just pets to me. I put leg bands on most of them just in case they get out of the pen all my neighbors know where they come from. I geat a great injoyment when the eggs start to hatch and they always eat out of my hands when I give them boiled eggs and I also raise my own mealworms. I feed wild birds and plant items that draws them to my home. Sometimes they act like spoiled kids.

Really cool thanks i feel more motivated now i have some jamesmarie and texas am and some botton quails too good to know someting new realy gonna. Help me alot .

Excellent! Thanks for this good video very informative.

Great video

I cut down on my feed by growing big patches of Miami spinach. I eat it a lot too. Great plant.

You might cut a square of sod with clover, put it on a tray, water it, until it is gone, replace the sod square, then cut another one.

Thanks for tips, very helpful.

I hear that Oregon grape berries and pyracantha berries are good treats - both grow like weeds in my yard

Cheers! Donating our parsley to friends before the birds hatch

I got alfalfa cubes for my rabbits and they want absolutely nothing to do with them. Can I feed these alfalfa cubes to quail? Mine are only 1.5 wks old. If not now, could I give them to them later?

May I add one caution concerning feeding bread to quail. Like chickens and most other birds, quail have a crop which is a pouch or pocket on the esophagus. It stores things they eat so it can be softened with saliva and mucus. Feeding bread sometimes fills the crop and it can block the esophagus, forming a firm dam. If bread is mixed with enough seeds and other material, a firm "dam" may not form. This blockage is sometimes life threatening. The crop can be felt where the neck attaches to the chest. So I would suggest you stay away from feeding bread. They sometimes "honk" trying to move this firm mass of food, just like we get the hiccups (but we don't have a crop).

Some of these questions...i see why u hv hair like mine...lol I hv subscribed, enjoy your videos. Take care

good idea. thanks for sharing.

This surprised me as I have quail and I feed them my vegetable scraps (peels) so potato skins chopped up is one of the normal things I feed my quails and I havent had any issues at all. My four quails have 2 handfuls of food scraps per day (mostly potato, carrot, pumpkin). Mine also have commercial game bird pellets on hand all the time

Thanks for you God Bless! Same to you brother.

I tryed cucumber and my quail loved it.Not growing any next year so I hope they will like cantelopes.

My quail love to be fed all the weeds and berries and fresh new grass. I also give them maggots, mealy worms and fresh earth worms. They love the watermelon rinds and cucumbers as well. I also take what they don't eat out of the cage at the end of the day as a good practice. I keep grit and ground up chicken egg shells in the cage as well. Their favorite weeds so far... dandelion leaves, clover, purslane and new grass. One note of caution.: If you feed them all these good things they won't eat their game feed as much. They will treat you like the welfare system and start demanding more. My quail are so excited for whatever's next that I'm bringing that they jump on me and mob me. So be ready for the change. I enjoy spending time with the birds and it's important to me to give them as much fresh real and clean food as possible so they stay healthy.

Most of my birds love lettuce. They start eating it before I move my hand away. I have one pair that don't touch it though. I give them a little gem lettuce as a weekend treat (or any time I go shopping). I also give them mealworms to help with protein and they all love those. The roosters make a lovely call to the hens as they offer them the worms.

or since they enjoy what chicken eat, can i just mesh the chicken pellet and feed it to them ? maybe just layer pellet crushed. thanks andrew

When it comes to seeds. Do you need to crush them up so they can eat them? Or could they eat like a whole sunflower seed? I don't have any yet I am getting them next month and just trying to learn

My blues scales love love love strawberries

" Qiual" is that what you think you say it.......... i love it

We have acreage leased to the government for Quail and songbird habitat. The information we recieved states that insects make up almost 200% of newly hatched quail and if I remember right that extends out to 6 weeks or so.I would be interested in finding out where this information is coming from. I think I should cross refference it with what the government is putting out. Thanks, Wade

So just feed them their natural diet. Seeds and green grasses. Canary seed would be best, so I am learning. Thanks.

Mine loves the gamebird ration mixed with wild bird seeds & especially the seed nut bag mixtures. I also mix in dried mealworms. He doesn't like any fruit but watermelon but gets really excited when I bring in dandelions & grass with seeds attached.

Watermelon and cantaloupe they love

Thank you so much for the video :) It's been very helpful! What type of gamebird feed do you use?

Alfalfa sprouts? It's also high protein.

I think one of their favorite foods especially on a hot day is iceberg lettuce.

when can we feed them vegetate? new borns or adult? or just one day old

I feed ground wheat , peas lentils, barley , corn and more . All ground and added to layer and startena . I also add grass and more .

just subbed. thanks bro!

Thank you!!!

This is interesting part about avocado. no one animal can eat it, only human.

You mentioned you new water cups and them allowing to much water in their droppings we were wandering if you use something to catch their waste or if you collect it by shoveling. We are trying to figure out the best way to collect for compost without destroying the ground under the coops.

I feed them 90% insects(mostly beetles and moths, also crickets and cicadas, and whatever else kinds of insects come), since I spoil them so much, they refuse to eat their gamebird food, and when I put them in their cage, they immediately peck the latch that holds the door open, and their out the next day.

hii, if i can find quail feed, can i just you the mix of nuts seed treat for wild bird ? you know those that we hang onto a stick to lure bird to eat it ? thanks

*Please tell someone how to know adult quail birds*

Two questions; 1.) I live in Chicago, it gets to 40 degree low where I live. I have chicks that are 2 weeks old today. They’re living inside without a heat lamp now. I want to take them out to my garage that will be closed and heated. I will also give them a heat lamp in their pen. Will they be okay in my garage with those circumstances. 2.) can I feed vegetables to my 2 week old quail

Another interesting tidbit is quail love ants and any other small insects really. They are great at eating little garden pests. I've heard of cages built to fit over raised garden beds where the quail are let loose to eat the unwanted critters. Once the veggies are well started, the quail generally don't bother with the plants. Thoughts?

Hello, I have seen multiple videos on people housing valley quail, do you have any tips on them? I have also seen valley quail being housed with bobwhites and I was thinking on making a large quail aviary with all the north american species. Any thoughts? Edit: You have earned a sub!

Great video. How much meat do quail usually dress out after processing? I really enjoy the channel.

Can you feed grounded beans?

Is it possible to re-use the quail feces as a fertilizer? And if so, do you know any good ways to do so? Another one, My chickens are cannibals in the sense I can feed them eggs(cooked) and they happily devour it with out any problems, can quails do the same?

My quail just hatched

Girt. what would be good grit, in one video you said the playground sand kinda goes right threw them. thanks. another great video

What's your recommended maxiumum on mealworms per quail?

Great video….I have a large amount of laying chickens I boil my extra eggs and mash it shell and all they love them lots of vitamins and protein …wondering what your thought are on eggs for added protein ..any downsides? Also I had a ant problem in my kitchen on the counters had traps out didn’t work ….so put some sugar with a few drops of water mixed in at night in the morning it’s covered with the ants I just take it our and the birds go crazy! Just an idea have no idea the nutrition of ants but don’t think it will hurt other than the sugar giving them type2 diabetes! Great vids thanks for all the info!

sorry man they are Grey francolin not quails but my quails give a lot og eggs but dont hatch them and plz do tell me breeding season and info of partridge i also have them all birds live in the same cage but sep portions

is a maggot bucket a good idea? a bucket with foodscraps with a bunch of small holes along the bottom area for maggots to crawl out...

My Quails are not interested in the barley fodder. It's day 1 of their introduction to it. Should I withhold commercial feed for a time to encourage the switch?

Please help I have a lot of carrots, too much for my family and I to eat can quail have carrots?

Can I give them cilantro? I ask because my chickens love cilantro.

And what about spinach? My friend gives his quails spinach they tend to eat, but I don't give my quails. Unless, I get some informations!

Hi 😊 can I feed them with quinoa? They seem to love it and it's full of protein

Mine go CRAZY for watermelon!

We found a baby quail today and he loved watermelon.

can they be fed ground meat and fish scraps for 20% of protein diet instead of grubs/worms/etc?

Only Bsf Larvaes enough for feed them or need to mix with oher things (seeds.vegetables etc.)?

Are apples okay? We have all these apple trees and the ones that fall, maybe I can feed them to our quail?

Is mint alright? There is quite a bit of it growing along my garden edges

What kind of fruit can I feed my quail?

2 questions, 1 what part of Mo are you in and 2 , do you have a video on what you do to the cages in winter

How about feeding them Terakian Strangler Vine?

Most pasta recipes have you salt the water, so pasta gas salt.

Parsley? Yet it's fine to feed to chickens..., I wonder why not quail.

I'm definitely interested in getting quail, but I wanna make sure I know a food source that doesn't need to be bought. Just for the worst case scenario where you can't get the store food, don't want them starving

Love to watch your videos too. 😊

i got a question is it ok to feed ur quail dried food only? or i have to feed it loads of different food???

My quail lays eggs but she doesnt hatch the eggs what should i do She can hatch eggs?

I noticed my quail love dandelion

Hey man, in my country we dont have quail feed that can be bought in stores unlike chicken and duck feed. The minimum order for the quail feed is 500kg and i only got 3 quail... the quail food is 22% protein only as well. Im feeding broiler chick starter right now 19-20% thats the highest we can get in stores. What can i do to increase the protein? Im already feeding live mealworms almost daily.

Can i feed the Fermented feed just like i do with my chickens ?

Lawn clippings and table scraps... So i mean... LOL

My quail LOVE zucchini and purslane.