How to raise quail with high benefit?

Quail is a kind of strong edible poultry, also known as quail bird, quail, running quail, etc., which is a small bird of the genus Quail of the pheasant family, which can provide rich protein food (quail meat and quail eggs) for human beings. it is also processed into a variety of foods to be sold in the market. Let's take a look at how quails can be bred with high efficiency.

Culture advantage

1. Less investment: quail farming occupies a small area, even if large-scale quail breeding sites occupy much less land and houses than other poultry and do not require heavy physical labor, and the expenditure for epidemic prevention is also very small.

2. More output: the quail can mature in 40-50 days. When the meat type is 42 days old, it can reach 220g and consume only 700g of feed. The egg type lays about 270eggs in a year, with a total weight of 3000 g.

3. Fast turnover: the feeding cycle of quails is short, and the capital investment is less, each one accounts for no more than 1.6 yuan, which is much faster than that of other poultry.

4. Low risk: quail breeding has the characteristics of less input, more output and fast capital turnover, so it is not easy to cause economic losses in quail breeding, and generally speaking, there is no need to take too much risk.

Variety selection

1. White-feathered quail: the body type of white-feathered quail is slightly larger than that of Korean quail. The adult male quail weighs 145 grams and the female quail weighs 170 grams. The first laying age is 45 days. The average annual laying rate is 80-85%, the annual egg production is 265-300, and the egg weight is 11.5-13.5 grams.

2. Korean quail: Korean quail adult male quail 125kg 130g, female quail 140g 150g, under feed restrictions 40-50d old, the average annual egg production rate is more than 75%, the annual egg production rate is 260,280 eggs, and the egg weight is 10.5 to 12.0 grams.

3. Japanese quails: Japanese quails weigh 100g to 110g for adult male quails and 130g to 140g for females. Eggs can be seen at the age of 35 days. The average laying rate of 300-day-old female quails can still reach more than 85%, with an annual production of 280 eggs and an average egg weight of 10g.

Site selection

1. Site: large-scale quail breeding requires convenient transportation, far away from residential areas, other livestock and poultry farms and pollution sources, and the roads inside and outside the field are smooth in order to transport production and living materials.

2. Hydropower: the source of water should be adequate, preferably groundwater, the water quality should be clean, meet the sanitary requirements of drinking water, the power supply should be normal, and generators should be provided in areas with frequent power outages.

3. Quail house: according to local conditions, idle houses can be used, or houses can be specially built, requiring solid and tidy houses with good ventilation, lighting and heating performance.

Reproduction and hatching

1. Egg selection: quail breeding eggs should choose oval eggs of appropriate size and normal shape, the hatching rate of normal shaped eggs is higher, and the hatched chicks are robust, lively, uniform, easy to feed and manage, high survival rate, and the weight should be 10 to 12 grams.

2. Laying eggs: quail breeding eggs are placed on the egg plate with big head up and small head down. in order to reach the temperature in the incubator soon after laying eggs, the breeding eggs are preheated at 25: 30 ℃ 24 hours before hatching, and the breeding eggs are disinfected after laying eggs.

3. Environment: the temperature in the incubator is controlled between 38-39 ℃, and the relative humidity should be maintained at 55-65%. The incubator uses fans for ventilation to supply oxygen for embryonic development, discharges nitrogen dioxide and heat, and makes the temperature of the incubator uniform.

4. Turning eggs: the purpose of turning eggs is to evenly heat the breeding eggs, prevent the embryo from adhering to the eggshell, promote embryonic activity, and maintain the normal fetal position. Turn the eggs every day from the first to 14 days after hatching, every 2-3 hours, at an angle of 45 degrees.

5. Hatching: on the 15th to 16th day of hatching, the eggs in the egg plate are put into the chick plate to prepare for hatching. At the same time, the temperature drops to 37cm 37.5 ℃. Normally, the eggs begin to peck on the 16th day, shell in large quantities on the 17th day, and finish on the 18th day.