Bird meats were the source of 9 virus-containing samples (5 quail, 2 moor hens, and 2 water cocks), which indicates a risk for influenza virus (H5N1) contamination in bird meats, especially quail.
If you are raising quail for meat, change their food to a finisher diet instead of a laying fowl mix.
It also makes a great garnish for any kind of meat — quail, pork".
A possible explanation for virus contamination in live bird and food markets may be animal movement from outbreak areas to the markets as well as an attempt to sell infected (dead or dying) birds, especially quail, as bird meat.
Feed your meat quails a finisher feed after six to eight weeks of age.
Quails can eat meat, eggs, vegetables, rice, fruits, cereal, tomato, cooked potato, noodles - the list goes on.
Mr. Besh, who won a regional James Beard award this week, is regaling his customers with fresh delights like a salad of heirloom beets, crab meat and quail eggs; ravishing deep-fried soft-shell shrimp; and several preparations of the plump, succulent strawberries from the town of Ponchatoula, La.
Every time I ate there I saw enormous tables covered with lemony hummus, yogurt-coated eggplant dolmas and canapés of spiced meats under quail's-egg bull's-eyes, and at least one of those tables would be swarmed by a large clan, from grandparents to their children to their children's tiny infants taking a turn on one shoulder after another.
A first application of such methodology with real data has been presented by Valente et al. [ 35], who have studied relationships among five traits (birth weight, weight at 35 days of age, age at sexual maturity, average egg weight, and rate of lay) in meat-type quail.
