I have recently decided to publish one of the many feeding comparisons / trials I do from time to time, which I think will assist the many people asking common questions about what to feed quails, and more specifically Coturnix coturnix Quails

TRIAL

I divided 66 day old Quails, all hatched from the same parent groups and hatching batch, into 6 groups of 11 each. Subjected them to 3 different treatments of two groups per treatment

TREATMENT 1 – Fed this group the standard Back Yard Farmer regime of 28 % Protein Quail Starter Mash from day 1 – day 21 of age, then switch to 26 % Protein Quail Growers Mash

TREATMENT 2 – Fed this group NXX Meatbird Crumble as per manufacturers recommendation

TREATMENT 3 – Fed this group WX Game Bird Crumble as per manufacturers recommendation

I am now quoting some of the results obtained up to 42 days of age. The intention was to follow this through to full egg production at 12 weeks of age, but for the benefit of the birds, I decided to terminate the trial at 42 days of age.

	TREATMENT 1	TREATMENT 2	TREATMENT 3
Body mass at 16 days – g	105	72	73
Body Mass at 24 days – g	168	122	111
Body Mass at 31 days – g	198	142	130
Body Mass at 42 days – g	260	212	201
Mortality at 42 days – %	0.00%	13.60%	22.70%

With the above results taken into consideration, I decided to terminate the trial for the benefit of the birds in some of the groups.

I have collected many more data from these trials and subjected the results to proper statistical analyses, but I think it superfluous to report