How to raise baby quails?

Quails are afraid of cold and not afraid of heat, I also raised six, two months later, there are two left, currently surviving well, summed up: 1, the general flower and bird market or small traders are basically eliminated male quails, the age of the bird will not exceed 3 weeks, when panning, pick those with strong activity ability, can eat by themselves, generally choose a few more, it is difficult for a single individual to survive. 2. Living in the city, the food is taken locally, rice, corn or something is crushed with our usual juicer, not too broken, broken rice grains can be fed directly, beaten into powder with cool boiled water and stirred well, not too thin, packed with bottle caps, so that the small quail can choose to eat freely, generally within a month, the staple food is vegetables, what cabbage, green vegetables or something, cut with a knife The more broken the better, with a bottle cap, let the little quail choose to eat freely, and after a month, it can be directly fed to the small yellow rice sold in supermarkets and vegetable fields. Vegetables are supplemented; Quail drinking water must be boiled, some glucose can be added in the early stage, and a very small amount of edible salt can be added in the later stage.

3. This is the most important - insulation, this should not be well controlled, the mortality rate is very high, I have a small electric stove for foot warming-the kind that my wife uses in the office in winter, the size is just right to put a carton of boxed milk on it, the box is divided into two areas with a paper partition, a suitable opening on the paper partition to ensure that the two areas can come and go freely, one area is placed in the food box and water box, and the rest is paved with hay collected in the community and the surrounding area; Put sand in the other area, not too much, it is best to dry, quail love sand, both for feeding and for bathing. The small electric stove for foot warmer began to use high temperature, and after the temperature in the box was felt, it could be adjusted to heat preservation, if not, it could be treated with a shoe dryer as a heating and insulation equipment, and it was best to use 24-hour uninterrupted power insulation in winter and spring to ensure the survival rate. If the young quail has the conditions at night, take the light for about two hours, both warm and can add food to the quail, if the temperature and light are suitable, the quail is uninterrupted.

After the chicks are hatched, they are put into the brooding box after the hair is dryThe temperature of the brooding box on the 1st to 3rd day is 35, and then the temperature is lowered day by day, the 7th day is reduced to 32, the 14th day is 30, the 21st day is 25, and the 28th day is raised at about 22-20 room temperature. The principle of feeding is to drink water first, then start eating.

It can be divided into single feeding type and group feeding type。Single-feed type is a cage to raise a male or female bird, cage materials can be made of barbed wire and bamboo, etc., the cage is 90 cm long, 20 cm wide, 15 cm high, separated into 5 small cages, the size of the mesh at the bottom of the cage can be passed through the feces of the quail, and the toes will not step into the appropriate, the spacing is roughly 1 cm.

Quail cages have wide mesh holes on their feeding surfaces, allowing them to stick out of their heads and necks to feed. Hang a trough and a sink on the outside of the cage. Group feeding type is the use of large cages and small group feeding, with about 10 birds is appropriate.

Quails eat cornmeal, rice bran, soybean cake powder, bran, fish meal, bone meal, leaf meal, salt, greens, insects, etc. Feed is more diversified in breeding, nutrition should be comprehensive, you can choose good quality, palatability, nutrition is relatively complete, cheap, sufficient supply of feed to form compound feed. The quail feed is mainly semi-wet material, which is fed 5 times a day, and about 30 grams of concentrate is given to each one every day.

Precautions for quail farming

1. Pay attention to the heat preservation work of brooding, and the heat source of heat preservation can be electric lamp, kerosene stove, charcoal brazier or honeycomb coal stove. It is better to use an electric light to warm the brooder from the top of the brooder and to use a kerosene stove, charcoal or honeycomb coal at or next to it.

2. The quail brooding temperature can be used at 35-37 °C in the early stage, and then it can be reduced by 1-2 °C per day, and the temperature gradually drops to about 24-26 °C. Keep warm for 20 days and can be dewarmed. Brooding quails can be used for 24 hours of light at the age of 3-4 days, so that the young quails are familiar with the living environment, fully fed, fed and warm, and can gradually change to natural light and supplement light in the morning and evening.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Quail (generally refers to the genus Quail).

Quail Farming:Family quail or professional quail raising, must have a certain quail house, its form and structure are different, not only economical and practical, according to local conditions, but also to meet the needs of quail growth, development and reproduction. The roof of the house can be made of zinc and iron sheets.

It is made of asbestos tiles or tiles, has two exhaust holes, and is surrounded by windows that allow four six-tier cages to be placed in the quail house.

Reproduction

In order to select high-quality quail with strong disease resistance, female quail should choose a large abdominal cavity volume and strong egg laying ability, and male quail should choose a larger body size, claws must be fully extended, and conducive to mating and reproduction. The male-to-female ratio should be 1:2 or 3, and the eggs should be brightly colored, spotted, and medium in size, so that the hatchability of the eggs is high.

Domestic quails have lost the habit of hatching eggs, so they hatch quails in two forms.

Quail farming can start from raising young chicks, feeding management, improving light, and disease control.

1. Raise young chicks.

In the process of raising quails, the newly hatched chicks should be put into a wooden brooding box, heated by kerosene stoves, electric lamps or braziers, and the temperature should be kept between 35-37 degrees, and the later period should be reduced by 1-2 degrees per day until the young chicks adapt to the environment of 24-26 degrees, and the young chicks can provide 24 hours of light every day after entering the age of 3-4 days, which is conducive to improving their appetite.

2. Feeding management.

When the small quail starts eating, you can feed corn, broken rice, wheat flour mixed with boiled boiled egg yolk feed, 3 days after feeding corn spine pie, soybean cake, fish meal, bran, grass meal, bone meal mixed feed, to ensure that there are 10 grams of vitamins per 100 catties of feed, and the initial feeding times are controlled at 6 times a day, and after a month to change to 4 times a day.

3. Improve the light.

Female quail is mainly used for egg laying, in the process of breeding, in order to improve egg production, to hang a 60 watt electric lamp per 20 square meters of area, to provide 16 hours of light per day for female quail, the rest of the time can not let the quail in the dark, can weaken the light, create a low-light environment, to avoid quail frightened.

4. Disease prevention and control.

Quail rarely gets sick in the process of growth, but there will be a large-scale death as soon as it occurs, so during the breeding period, it is necessary to clean up the enclosure once a day, and disinfect the breeding site with Suer medicine, and feed the quail with oxytetracycline once a week to disinfect the intestines.

The habits of quails

Quails are stealthy, often sneaking in bushes and grasses, chirping when frightened, and often lurking in the grass for long periods of time when in danger, or running in the grass, rarely taking off. When flying, the wings flapped quickly, flew in a straight line, and often flew at low altitude close to the ground. Male quails are more likely than female quails to have commotion, startles, and pecking.

Quails are aggressive and like to peck and scratch each other's eyes and neck. In some countries, male quails are often referred to as "fighting quails". The pecking behavior can cause feathers to fall and, in extreme cases, cannibalism.

It often forages in meadows and farmland. It mainly feeds on plant shoots, twigs, leaves, fruits, weed seeds, grains, etc., and also feeds on small invertebrates such as insects.

Quail breeding methods: raising young chicks, feeding management, improving light, disease control.

1. Raise young chicks.

In the process of raising quails, the newly hatched chicks should be put into a wooden brooding box, heated by kerosene stoves, electric lamps or braziers, and the temperature should be kept between 35-37 degrees, and the later period should be reduced by 1-2 degrees per day until the young chicks adapt to the environment of 24-26 degrees, and the young chicks can provide 24 hours of light every day after entering the age of 3-4 days, which is conducive to improving their appetite.

2. Feeding management.

When the quail starts eating, you can feed corn, broken rice, wheat flour mixed with cooked egg yolk feed, 3 days later feed corn, soybean cake, fish meal, bran, grass meal, bone meal mixed feed, to ensure that there are 10 grams of vitamins in every 100 catties of feed, and the initial feeding times are controlled at 6 times a day, and after a month it is changed to 4 times a day.

3. Improve the light.

Female quail is mainly used for egg laying, in the process of breeding, in order to improve egg production, to hang a 60 watt electric lamp per 20 square meters of area, to provide 16 hours of light per day for female quail, the rest of the time can not let the quail in the dark, can weaken the light, create a low-light environment, to avoid quail frightened.

4. Disease prevention and control.

Quail rarely gets sick in the process of growth, but there will be large-scale death when it occurs, so during the breeding period, it is necessary to clean up a sentence every day, and disinfect the breeding site with Suer medicine, and feed the quail with oxytetracycline once a week to disinfect the intestines.

Mode of reproduction

The breeding season is from May to July. Usually soon after arriving at the breeding ground, the male takes up the area and begins to woo and chirp, and the male is aggressive, especially during the breeding period. Male and female birds do not form a fixed mate relationship, but have multiple females in one male, so males often fight fiercely for females during breeding.

It nests in plain meadows, on the edge of farmland and in grasses and shrubs on barren slopes. The nest mostly uses natural pits on the ground or a shallow pit on the ground by the female bird, and the inner cushion is filled with dry fine grass stems, grass roots and grass leaves. The size of the nest is 10-15 cm in diameter.

Spawning begins in early May, 7-14 eggs per clutch, light yellowish brown, light brown, yellowish-white or dark gray-white with black-brown, olive or yellow-brown and reddish-brown spots; The size of the eggs is 21-24 mm and 28-30 mm; The egg weight is 5-7 grams.

Female birds incubate eggs, during the incubation period female birds are very fond of the nest, sometimes people do not fly in front of them, the incubation period is 17 days. Chicks are precocious. On the day after hatching, they can follow the activities and foraging of the parent birds.