The popularity of quails grows from year to year. These birds are considered as the most favorable to cultivation and receiving arrived. The high quality of meat and dietary value of eggs became the reason of such prevalence of keeping of quails among poultry breeders.
If you decided to be engaged in cultivation of quails, for a start it is necessary to get acquainted with their types and pedigree features. Such egg breeds as white English, blue marble, Manchurian golden are most demanded at specialists in cultivation.
Physiology of birds
This bird is unique as she begins to rush for the second month of life. If you decided to buy quails on the egg direction, then after purchase they at once begin to yield result.
Egg breeds do not lose the efficiency about one year whereas meat breeds cease to grow in 2-3 months. After a year of egg quails it is possible to chuck in meat and to buy new birds. One chicken is capable to bring in a year to 300 eggs which are in great demand at the population. Dietary properties of meat and eggs are known around the world. Cultivation of quails is allocated in a separate look in poultry farming – a perepelovodstvo. Scientists proved uniqueness of structure of eggs and meat of quails. It is appointed in the form of dietary food for allergic persons and as the first feeding up for small children.
Maintenance and feeding
The small size and unpretentiousness in keeping of these birds, allows to keep them not only on private farmsteads, but also in apartments. On 10 chickens 1 cockerel is necessary. Feeding has to be balanced. Ideally quails can be fed with grain mix for laying hens. In a cage there has to be clear drinking water which needs to be changed several times a day. In summertime they can be released on a grass to open open-air cages with the closed top as they can become an easy mark for cats or wild birds. In a cage or the open-air cage it is necessary to establish the container with sand that they could take sand baths. Temperature of keeping of quails indoors has to be 15–17 degrees. If these parameters decrease, then quails cease to rush. Decrease in a yaytsenoskost at quails can be promoted by poor quality of a forage. Quails possess the raised metabolism and the low-quality forage will at once affect their health. If you decided to breed quails independently, then it is necessary to get an incubator as chickens practically do not hatch out the eggs. Baby birds hatch in 17–18 days after a bookmark in an incubator. After hatching and an obsykhaniye, they begin to peck a forage. Quails very quickly grow. The acquired young growth pays for itself within several months and begins to make profit.