Causes and control measures of quail pecking disease

Quail is one of the smallest poultry, there are many people to improve the breeding of quail fortune, and some farmers in the breeding process often occur quail peck feathers, peck eggs, peck anal phenomenon. In fact, this is the phenomenon of pecking addiction, is a common quail week disease, so quail pecking addiction is what is going on? How to prevent it? Let's take a look.

1. Causes of disease

Quail pecking addiction includes nose pecking, feather pecking, egg pecking, anal pecking, toe pecking, etc. There are many reasons for the occurrence of quail pecking addiction. When quails are hungry due to insufficient diet, quails will peck feathers and eggs. Pecking addiction will also occur when feeding conditions are poor, temperature and humidity are not suitable, ventilation is not good, light is too strong, feeding density is too large, and quail houses are not sanitary. Diet with improper, some acid deficiency will also occur pecking addiction, in addition to the lack of certain minerals in the diet, trace elements and vitamins B2, B6, etc. can cause pecking addiction.

2. Symptoms

Quail pecking addiction includes nose pecking, feather pecking, egg pecking, anal pecking, toe pecking and other phenomena, so the symptoms are not the same, pecking nose quail peck each other, resulting in nasal bleeding, nasal inflammation, severe secretion obstruction nasal cavity, resulting in breathing difficulties, poor spirit and appetite. Pecking feathers is quail sometimes peck their own feathers, sometimes peck other quail feathers, serious quail back, tail feathers are pecked light, skin exposed. Egg pecking usually occurs after the female quail lays eggs and is often pecked by herself or by other quails. Anal peck and peck nose similar, quail peck anus each other, resulting in anal rupture bleeding, serious cases caused cloaca and anal inflammation, or ulceration. Peck toe and peck feather similar, sometimes peck oneself toe, sometimes peck other quail toe, make toe break bleed, even inflammation, fester, present limp.

3. Prevention and control measures

The best way to prevent quail pecking addiction is to cut off the beak tip, which can effectively prevent pecking addiction, usually in quail 1-9 days old. In the occurrence of pecking addiction, according to different symptoms of targeted prevention and control, pecking nose should strengthen feed, maintain food hygiene, adequate diet, baptism to increase protein feed; pecking feathers should be isolated feeding, adjust feeding density, or in quail body smeared kerosene or diesel oil, to prevent pecking feathers; pecking eggs to ensure the supply of complete feed, diet added with appropriate amount of protein, bone meal or shell powder, or the quail cage bottom made slope, the eggs will automatically roll out; Anal pecking should adjust feed in time, reduce breeding density appropriately, remove anal quail from isolation feeding, peck injured place coated with purple syrup or tetracycline ointment; pecking toe should be included in feed ah essential amino acids and vitamins, at the same time timely treatment broken toe, prevent infection.

The above is an introduction to the causes and prevention measures of quail pecking disorder. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about it, please pay attention to us.