Kitchen Fact: The ideal temperature range for your freezer is 0Â° Fahrenheit or below (-18Â° Celsius or below). Food stored at 0Â° Fahrenheit or below is safe to eat indefinitely (although quality and taste may be compromised after a while).
Quail also eat rose hips, acorns, crabapples, and other shrub fruits. Although ensuring that all needs are met throughout the year is important, winter is the most critical time for food and shelter availability. Winter severity is a great equalizer in Michigan for the bobwhite quail.
If the situation arises that Button quail eggs have to be incubated and / or any baby quail hand raised, this presents a bigger problem than with the other types of quail. The Coturnix quail instinctively pick up and eat food off the floor whereas the Button quail expect the food to be placed in their beak.uail often have no choice but to eat the foods that are supplied to the other birds. This is often a mix of basic finch seed mix along with some other select seeds and often a supply of live food such as mealworms. Mealworms can be fed as the larval (worm) stage as well as the pupa and beetle stage.