Quail mainly eat weed seeds, legumes, grains and berries, young leaves and shoots, etc., and in the summer eat a large number of insects and larvae, as well as small invertebrates.

Quail is a migratory bird, often inhabiting the warm climate, is a relatively weak migratory ability in the pheasant family, short wing feathers, can not fly high, long flight, often day and night, prefer to migrate at night to fly in groups, migration, more clusters. Often active in the growth of dense weeds or short bushes in the plains, wasteland, streams and hills along the slopes, and sometimes also to the activities near the cultivated land. So it is easier to feed on weed seeds, beans, grains and berries, young leaves, young shoots, insects and larvae.

Quails have a more mixed diet, preferring to eat granular feed, but also like to eat insects and green materials, and are good at continuous feeding, especially at dusk, the feeding rate will be significantly accelerated.

Toddler quail feeding methods:

Quail out of the shell 5-6 hours after the run, eating should be sooner rather than later. Open food available corn, broken rice, wheat flour and other mixtures, can add mixed cooked egg yolk is better. After two or three days, gradually switch to feed full-price mixed feed. Young quail ingredients available corn 52%, 27% soybean cake, 10% fish meal, 5% bran, 5% grass meal, bone meal 1%, crude protein content of 24% -25%; calcium and phosphorus ratio of 2:1.

Additionally, you can add 15% pulped green, or every 100 pounds of feed plus 10 grams of multivitamins and the right amount of trace elements. Feed a small amount of antibiotics within the feed is better, both to prevent disease, but also to promote growth. Feeding small quail can be used in the brooder box with a small trough, add a small amount of water into a paste feed. Quail like to eat, but the feed is easily contaminated, easy to spoil in summer. Feeding dry feed, need to add water supply with a water dispenser, water should be constantly supplied throughout the day. At the beginning of the end of the day to feed, two weeks after feeding six meals a day, four weeks after the change to feed four meals a day.