Maintenance and care for quails quite interesting and favorable occupation. Quails need to be fed correctly, otherwise they can lose in weight and ache. The right diet allows to grow up healthy and strong birds.
Instruction
1. Quails are unpretentious in food, but at an unbalanced diet can get sick. The most important in feeding – quality food. Quails well will be suitable a forage for agricultural birds, allergic reactions to any given kind of a forage are not observed. Before purchase of a forage the owner of pets needs to study its structure. In it there should not be harmful impurity or a large amount of vitamins and minerals.
2. Distinguish two types of feeding for quails – dry and damp. To use dry is much more practical: they can be filled up in a feeding trough for emergency and not to worry that they perelezhat also will deteriorate. Such type of feeding is convenient in the summer when damp food can quickly be spoiled. Damp forages lose the nutrition value after two hours. The use of the stale damp forage a bird can cause her poisoning.
3. It is recommended to pour any grain in liquid mix. Such fertilizing allows quails to find much more vitamins and to protect a beak and nostrils from clogging. Chicken bait perfectly is suitable for feeding of quails. It contains necessary quantity of the vital elements and is quite economic in use. If it is a concentrate, then it needs to be parted with a certain quantity of a loose dry feed.
4. It is possible to prepare a forage for quails by the hands. In this case probability is high that the bird will receive less than any given vitamin. It can lead to diseases or death. The structure of a forage for quails can be found on the information websites or special literature. In the spring and it is possible to give to quails a juicy grass, fresh and boiled vegetables, cottage cheese and boiled eggs in the summer.
5. Independently the forage is preparing by mixing of previously crushed seeds of different grain. Barley, oat, buckwheat, rice, semolina grain will approach. From the ground grain it is possible to add the crushed crackers and the fish pounded on a small grater or meat to the received mix. Keeping of fish or meat in a self-made forage is obligatory - it is the only components supporting squirrels in a large number. Before giving of a forage to quails recommend to add several drops of cod-liver oil to it.
6. Besides forages, quails need to be supplied with vitamins which can be bought in pet-shops or veterinary pharmacies. Vitamins pound and add to a forage. To quails vitamin D therefore before purchase of vitamin supplements to food it is necessary to get acquainted with ingredients of packing on the back is especially important. The necessary minerals contain in an egg shell therefore it needs to be milled and poured in a forage too.