There have been a lot of conflicting nutritional requirements attached to different feeding phases in the tropics for Japanese Quail. That of NRC 1994 has been the only reference point which I think is applicable to the temperate region.
You all can contact the NECTA, a research group of the Department of Animal Science of the Federal University of Lavras.
Prof. Antônio Gilberto Bertechini is the mastermind of this group, and they organize the International Symposium on Quail Production, on Brasil, each two years.
The publication of the last symposium is able to download at the link below:
We are curently work on quail protein requirements in the western Highlands of Cameroon. May be you can have some informations from what we have done in recent years