feeding birds

[Merlinator]

Being a falconer I have quail and day old chicks around all the time. Would it be advisable to cut a skinned quail breast and feed it to my corns? How about DOCs? One thing about DOCs is that it smells ok going in but real bad when it comes out :grin01:

[noobie]

I don't know about the day old chicks but i do know that the snakes need a whole prey item to gain all the nutrients they need so giving them pieces of breast meet will cause nutrition problems.

[Fenderplayer108]

If you can get it to eat quail breast, go for it. But remember that its not a full source of nutrients, and you need to feed mice/rats also. Chicks can be fed too, but have the same rules that apply with the quail.

Personally, I will rarely feed birds because I don't like the messy poo, yuck.

[Checkerbelly]

I fed mine a quail once. It was about the size of an adult mouse. He has since flat-out refused to eat another after that. He likes his rodents.

But he hasn't experienced any problems from eating it. They will eat birds in the wild. No biggy.