 Chicks like cracked millet, cracked sunflower seeds, dried mealworms, and live crickets.Quail chicks are capable of catching small to medium-sized crickets within the first week of hatching and can consume much larger crickets by the second week.The type of relationship exhibited between male and female members of "Coturnix japonica" has returned mixed reports, as they have been seen to exhibit both monogamous and polygamous relationships.