Day Old Chicks as a food item? really?

[Steveo]

Beyond the ability to digest DOC is the nutritional value, or lack thereof. High fat, high cholesterol, low protein, low calcium. The high phosphorous content is bad for bones. I would only feed them occasionally.

[ConcinusMan]

Just got a text from my supplier. She's expecting button quail chicks to hatch around the 28th. Yippy!

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Are there any smaller bird chick that'd be suitable and cheep(lol)?

[ConcinusMan]

I don't know, button quail chicks are pretty darn small. But yeah, ummm.. newly hatched house sparrows are smaller. Totally legal to harvest here but the challenge is that I usually don't discover a nest until I can hear the chicks. By that time they've grown quite a bit but are still about the same size as a quail chick.

Button quail chick:



The hard part is not falling in love with the food. They're so darn cute. For that reason I usually ask my supplier to freeze them for me before I pick them up.

[guidofatherof5]

Too cute = non-food item