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WannabeApprentice
01-07-2005, 02:00 AM
hey is coturnix or japanese quail a good food for a red tail cuz i just got a couple males and females for breeding and i just want to know if thats ok for the bird before i start to breed



TheMeanPitBull
01-07-2005, 03:42 AM
yup perfect man perfect u need any tips on breeding let me know i raise quail also and ducks chickens and pheasant
PeelsBells
27-08-2005, 10:53 AM
Go for the Japs as they are the biggest and the best.lol
LeighJauncey
27-08-2005, 12:20 PM
If you're going to breed them for hawk food you need a couple of males and about a dozen females, good food and something like 18hrs of light to maximise laying - stock up your freezer!
Hawkmaster
28-08-2005, 09:52 PM
Do you breed Leigh?
LeighJauncey
29-08-2005, 09:15 AM
I have in the past but, being very lazy, I've got a friend to do it for me! He's got more space and more birds to feed!
MattSpar
25-09-2005, 05:45 PM
I have in the past but, being very lazy, I've got a friend to do it for me! He's got more space and more birds to feed!
The old axiom "A friend in need is a bloody nuisance" springs to mind.
LeighJauncey
25-09-2005, 06:55 PM
I thought Derek & Clive put it much more succinctly.
Moritz
25-09-2005, 07:17 PM
Why do you guys freez the quial before you use them? Just keep them alive till you want to feet them to the birds and their nutrition value is a lot higher. If you have enough space to breed them you should have enough to keep them alive for some more days.

Moritz
LeighJauncey
25-09-2005, 10:48 PM
"Why do you guys freez the quial before you use them?"

It's far more convenient to kill in batches and to have a store of food to enable breaks from the constant routine. Provided they are 'quick frozen' there is no reduction in their nutritional value. If you are feeding the correct high-protein diet 'growing on' makes each bird more expensive and feeding lots of different sized birds to your hawks, especially those in aviaries, makes the regulation of diet more difficult for no real benefit.
MattSpar
26-09-2005, 08:43 PM
As I have been producing quail in numbers for some years, and therefore, possibly know a little on the subject, I am, together with LeighJauncey, in the process of putting together an article which, I hope, will be of use.
HarrisHawk.1.
26-09-2005, 08:47 PM
Good for bones as it has a lot of nutrition in
good for when you are moulting your bird out..