Quail breeding has become popular lately, because their meat and eggs are recognized as dietary healthy products. They are a storehouse of valuable ingredients for the body. Therefore, breeding quails at home is important to study in detail for beginners. Quail eggs and meat are especially useful for children, pregnant and elderly people. They help to recover from past illnesses. Even ground shells serve as a biological supplement and a source of easily assimilated calcium. It is no coincidence that meat and eggs are included in the obligatory diet of many well-known body bodies before and now.
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Benefits of Quail Breeding
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Breeding Benefits:
- It has already been mentioned that quail meat and eggs contain a large number of substances important for the functioning of the body. Quail are a source of: proteins, micro and macro elements, vitamins (most of all group B). Contain lecithin, which normalizes the liver. In addition, poultry eggs remove harmful cholesterol.
- Caring for them is quite simple, even those who take the first steps can easily cope with it;
- The cells do not need a lot of space. On 20 square meters. see dozens of chickens and cocks. Cells are exposed in several tiers.
- Equipment for maintenance can be done with your own hands, you need a little skill and patience at first.
- Birds eat a little (up to 30 grams per day). Although the feed is made up of compound feed, cereals, vegetables, greens, eggs, and cottage cheese are added.
- The incubation period is less than that of chickens (17 days). The meat is ready for use on the 50th day, earlier in some species. One chicken gives an average of one egg per day.
- Quails have a fairly stable immunity to diseases.
- Breeding quail can start a family farm, if you study in detail to study materials for beginners.
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Where to start breeding?
If the main goal is a small quail farm, but there is no practical experience, it is better to start by breeding a small batch of birds. Learn to make cells, incubator. Pass independently all stages of breeding, maintenance. That is, to gain initial experience, analyze mistakes, mistakes. This is useful for beginner farmers!
Only then gradually increase the stock. Numerous video clips are devoted to quail breeding at home, in detail, with instructions for beginners.
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We act in stages
How to start breeding quails at home will be described in detail for beginners.
Stage 1
It is necessary to prepare the room. It should be warm enough, dry. The average temperature is optimal for adult birds + 20 degrees.
Then prepare the cells. Here already decide for yourself whether to make them yourself or buy ready-made ones. A lot of videos, books explaining how to do this. The basic requirements and dimensions are also indicated there.
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Buy feed. It’s better to immediately take a large volume, so it’s more profitable. Keep them permanently closed so that they do not absorb moisture. Small feed mixed feed for chickens, large quail for broilers, poultry. All farmers argue that feed should be an essential element of food, so the birds need protein. You can feed at the discretion of various additives.
2 stage
To breed quail at home, you need to elaborate, for beginners, on breeds that have proven themselves well.
Among them:
- Pharaoh, white and colored;
- Manchurian gold, another name is Golden Phoenix;
- Estonian breed;
- Large breeds are great for meat, Texas White;
- Good rates of egg laying in Japanese quail.
You need to buy them from trusted breeders, it is better to go to the farm for purchase. Acquire from the calculation: 4 hens, one cockerel. You can buy two breeds for divorce to compare. The most optimal bird age for purchase is from 1 month to 2.
3 stage
Purchased quail will start racing 40-50 days. After two weeks, you can collect the fertilized eggs for incubation.
Why is it better not to buy fertilized eggs, but to select for yourself?
First, you select the best, largest and strongest. Secondly, you can be sure that it is this breed that will hatch from them, and there will be no surprises. In addition, the novice breeder will receive the first invaluable experience. Incubation lasts seventeen days. During this period, maintain a constant temperature regime of + 38.5-37 degrees.
Watch the humidity level. Before the eggs begin to hatch, lower the temperature by 1 degree. Some farmers before hatching, lay their eggs in small plastic pans and spread a paper towel so that the legs do not leave. I take out the chickens from the incubator when they dry. They are transplanted into a brooder. When the chicken was removed from the incubator, he was given a drink of water.
A brooder is most often a large box with spread paper napkins, a vacuum drinking bowl and round-the-clock lighting. On the first day they give the chickens an egg, it is possible with the addition of cottage cheese, grated carrots, greens. Add a drop of fish oil. But the basis of chicken feed should be either a dry infant formula or small feed.
It is important that the gap in the drinker is minimal. Chickens can drown if done more. Please note that the temperature regime, in the early days, is maintained within 35 degrees, then gradually decreases to 25.
After two weeks, hens and males are transplanted into prepared cages, but the temperature for another two weeks should be above 20 degrees. For these purposes, use incandescent lamps installed in each cell.
How to care and what to look for?
When breeding quails at home, it is important to study in detail the instructions for beginners, what important points you need to pay attention to:
- The temperature regime must be maintained at + 20-22 degrees. A decrease or increase leads to a drop in productivity, that is, quails begin to rush less. They poorly tolerate both a decrease and an increase in temperature.
- Feed the birds two or three times. The daily norm should not exceed 30 grams, the basis of the diet is feed. Additionally fed with cereals, eggs, cottage cheese, herbs, vegetables. Overfeeding a bird is not advisable.
- Drinking bowls are preferable nipple or vacuum. If this is an ordinary drinker, then there should be a grate or wire on it, so that only the head crawls through. The feeder is installed in front, make a hole for the bird's head.
These are the main points that you need to pay attention to those who decided to make quail.
After you have gained some experience, are satisfied with the results, you can gradually increase the number of birds. Breeding quails at home, if you study in detail all the materials for beginners - this is a business with fast self-sufficiency. Especially if the equipment is made independently. In addition, the family will provide itself with a healthy dietary product.
