Listing ID #1300878
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Contact SupplierNutritionally, the Quail eggs are on par with that of chicken eggs. Moreover, the eggs of Quail contain less cholesterol. The company is engaged in Japanese Quail Farming, which is supervised by the experts. Our Quails are ensured of excellent health and these are kept in controlled and hygienic environment. We rear a variety of breeds of Quails and also offer them for farming.
Advantages Of Japanese Quail Farming
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Deep litter system
6 quails can be reared in a sq.ft. of floor space.
After 2 weeks, Quails can be reared in cages. This will help to gain good body weight, as unnecessary wandering of animals is avoided.
Quails in cage system of rearing
Each unit is about 6 feet in length and 1 foot in width, and subdivided into 6 subunits.
To save space, the cages can be arranged upto 6 tiers high. There can be 4 to 5 cages in a row.
The bottom of the cage is fixed with removable wooden plates to clean the bird droppings.
Long narrow feed troughs are placed in front of the cages. Water troughs are placed at the back of the cages.
Commercial egg layers are usually housed in colonies of 10-12 birds per cage. For breeding purposes, male quails are introduced in the cages in the ratio of 1 to 3 females.
Feeding management
A 5 weeks old quail consumes about 500 gms of feed
Quails of 6 month old, consumes about 30-35 gms of feed per day.
Quails require about 400 gms feed for the production of 12 eggs.
Broiler starter mash can be used by adding 5 kg of oil cakes to 75 feed. The particle size is reduced by grinding the feed for one more time.
General management of quails
At the age of six weeks, female quails usually weigh 175-200 g and the males weigh about 125-150 g
Female quails start laying eggs at 7 weeks of age and continue utpo 22 weeks of age
Usually egg laying happens during the evening time of the day
The quail egg usually weighs about 9-10 g
The breast of the male quail is usually narrow and covered with equally distributed brown and white feathers. But the female quail has a broad breast covered with brown feathers with black dots.
The female and male quails should be separated at the age of four weeks
Sixteen hours of light per day should be available to the egg laying quails
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http://vikaspedia.in/agriculture/poultry/quail-farming
Feed Ingredients | Chick mash | Grower mash |
---|---|---|
0-3 weeks | 4-6 weeks | |
Maize | 27 | 31 |
Sorghum | 15 | 14 |
Deoiled RiceBran | 8 | 8 |
Groundnut Cake | 17 | 17 |
Sunflower Cake | 12.5 | 12.5 |
Soya meal | 8 | - |
Fishmeal | 10 | 10 |
Mineral Mixture | 2.5 | 2.5 |
Shell grit | - | 5 |
Age | Cage Size | Number of birds |
---|---|---|
First 2 weeks | 3 x 2.5 x 1.5 ft. | 3100 |
3- 6 weeks | 4 x 2 .5 x 1.5 ft. | 50 |