Recovering Academic on Nostr: I love programming eggs. Here's is my current quail food recipe. Our legendary egg ...
I love programming eggs. Here's is my current quail food recipe. Our legendary egg producers are quail of the Japanese variety.
The followong will make 1.4153kg
@ 21.1% Protein & 4.8% Fat:
-- 750g Hulled Yellow Peas*
-- 250g Hulled Red Lentils*
-- 200g Red Millet
-- 81.5g Japanese Millet
-- 30g Dehydrated Pilchards
-- 30g Linseeds
-- 25g Paprika
-- 7.5g Turmeric
-- 7.1g BVM Powder
-- 10g Dehydrated Grass-Fed Beef Liver
-- 4.2g Iodised Salt
Melted and poured through the mix:
-- 15g Grass-Fed Unsalted Butter
-- 5g Coconut Oil
* = Rinsed then soaked for 12 hours. Then drained, and then roasted for 90 minutes at 170°C/338°F, then dehydrated for ~ 5 hours at 70°C/158°F.
Optional additives that are general health and carcass quality oriented:
-- 5.25g Cloves
-- 5.25g Dry Olive Leaves
-- 1.2g Onion Powder
-- 1.2g Cinnamon Powder
-- .75g Ginger Powder
Calcium carbonate/egg shells/cuttle bone/limestone/oyster shell grit provided separately and consumed at the discretion of the performer. We use their egg shells and cuttle bone as we are near the ocean.
Green leafy lower oxalic acid things are also provided ad libitum/twice daily.
I am quite fond of the BVM powder. It is nice to have a multinutrient additive around. I have been trying for months now to facilitate complete nutrition with whole food only. The final sticking point I encountered was iodine. Iodine is vital for poultry, they need at least .5mg per kg of feed. Some people provide their birds with up to 3mg per kg of feed. Iodised salt in the aforementioned dose provides about .2 mg, and I cannot add more as we want the added salt to be around .3% of the mix.
Seaweed might come to mind as a solution, but the concentration of iodine varies greatly, and depends largely on processing too, so I feel like I would be running the gauntlet with our entire flock if I were to rely on seaweed like this.
If you have seaweed that is tested for iodine and you trust the dose, I would love to know about it. I may need to learn the local seaweeds where I am and process them myself and then I might feel comfortable dropping the BVM powder which ads .35mg per kg, so we are approaching .5mg per kg of feed, providing the miscellaneous greens they are eating also provide iodine . . .
In light of this closeness to the lower bound, I may consider increasing the BVM dosage (perhaps double), but if I do that I will half the beef liver dose and reduce the pilchard dose, as these are very nutritious and the protein percent is already higher than what is necessary. I might then also drop lentils and replace with more peas.
I will detail my rationale for each ingredient in following notes.
#homestead #homesteading #poultry #eggprogramming #quail #health #food #birdstr #eggstr
The followong will make 1.4153kg
@ 21.1% Protein & 4.8% Fat:
-- 750g Hulled Yellow Peas*
-- 250g Hulled Red Lentils*
-- 200g Red Millet
-- 81.5g Japanese Millet
-- 30g Dehydrated Pilchards
-- 30g Linseeds
-- 25g Paprika
-- 7.5g Turmeric
-- 7.1g BVM Powder
-- 10g Dehydrated Grass-Fed Beef Liver
-- 4.2g Iodised Salt
Melted and poured through the mix:
-- 15g Grass-Fed Unsalted Butter
-- 5g Coconut Oil
* = Rinsed then soaked for 12 hours. Then drained, and then roasted for 90 minutes at 170°C/338°F, then dehydrated for ~ 5 hours at 70°C/158°F.
Optional additives that are general health and carcass quality oriented:
-- 5.25g Cloves
-- 5.25g Dry Olive Leaves
-- 1.2g Onion Powder
-- 1.2g Cinnamon Powder
-- .75g Ginger Powder
Calcium carbonate/egg shells/cuttle bone/limestone/oyster shell grit provided separately and consumed at the discretion of the performer. We use their egg shells and cuttle bone as we are near the ocean.
Green leafy lower oxalic acid things are also provided ad libitum/twice daily.
I am quite fond of the BVM powder. It is nice to have a multinutrient additive around. I have been trying for months now to facilitate complete nutrition with whole food only. The final sticking point I encountered was iodine. Iodine is vital for poultry, they need at least .5mg per kg of feed. Some people provide their birds with up to 3mg per kg of feed. Iodised salt in the aforementioned dose provides about .2 mg, and I cannot add more as we want the added salt to be around .3% of the mix.
Seaweed might come to mind as a solution, but the concentration of iodine varies greatly, and depends largely on processing too, so I feel like I would be running the gauntlet with our entire flock if I were to rely on seaweed like this.
If you have seaweed that is tested for iodine and you trust the dose, I would love to know about it. I may need to learn the local seaweeds where I am and process them myself and then I might feel comfortable dropping the BVM powder which ads .35mg per kg, so we are approaching .5mg per kg of feed, providing the miscellaneous greens they are eating also provide iodine . . .
In light of this closeness to the lower bound, I may consider increasing the BVM dosage (perhaps double), but if I do that I will half the beef liver dose and reduce the pilchard dose, as these are very nutritious and the protein percent is already higher than what is necessary. I might then also drop lentils and replace with more peas.
I will detail my rationale for each ingredient in following notes.
#homestead #homesteading #poultry #eggprogramming #quail #health #food #birdstr #eggstr