https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/16453/need-help-from-anyone-with-quail-experience I have just become an unplanned foster mother to a single Quail, found sitting on a pavement by a busy road by a client of ours. We need to keep it for 7 days as it is an owned animal, but I have decided it will be a lot quieter and safer at home withen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/126333?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:37:50 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:b166e5b3-4f9b-4173-ae49-fbadd986370dEmma Purnell<p>I don&#39;t have any layer pellets at the moment, I am breaking up some duck pellets in with the egg food just until I get something tomorrow - obviously not planning to go searching for quail food until I know I am going to have her a little longer!</p> <p>I don&#39;t have any others for her to live with at the moment, chicken or otherwise, but I have all the set-up from my duck I reared last year and a couple of rescue chickens I have had temporarily.</p> <p>She seems pretty happy at the moment, chuntering away, eating and drinking well, just hope her owners come looking for her!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/126330?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:43:45 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:a6a7040f-ea99-4d89-b376-6b1510a2bce7Sal the 1st<p>I have used chick crumb as a temp measure before because I didnt have anything else in and the two birds didnt seem to come to any harm. Have you got any layers pellets you can break down a bit or some corn if you already have chickens? I used to have some painted quail that lived in with the bantams and they all seemed pretty happy</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>