Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Quail Rearing

Quail farming is well popular now a day. Its origin birthplace is Japan. Among the domestic birds it is very much little. It may obedient very easy. It does not need extra place for rearing. We can rear it on yard, roof of buildings, corridors etc. It requires less space as 1/10 th of a hen or poultry or duck. So we can rear in village or town.
Quail rearing do not need spacious place or fix room and it is profitable. So rearing of Quail is prominent now a day.
The weather of Japan, Bangladesh and India is suitable for rearing Quail. Quail egg and meat is very tasty. They contain high protein and fat. The quail egg contains as much protein as poultry egg but its price is very less. So it becomes famous worldwide for its nutrition and price. The meat and egg of quail is export very often. For this reason Quail rearing is famous now a day

Facilities of Quail farming:
Quail farming advantages are more than disadvantages. Here are some facilities of quail farming.
>> A quail gives us 250 - 300 eggs throw a year. And every egg gives us chicken. This chicken becomes aged within 6 - 7 weeks age. Then they can lay eggs and can be sold for eat.
>> We can make quail farm with low cost in a small area of land. Even in a rent house we rear it in a case.
>> Quail does posses very few diseases. So we do not need money for treatment.
>> Quail gives us eggs in 6 - 7 weeks of age. Their eggs are tasty and nutritious as poultry eggs.
>> They need not extra food. They need only 20 -30 gm only food. Their physical growth is very high.
>> A chicken comes out from egg within 20 days. And chicken becomes matured within 6 - 7 weeks of age.
>> A chicken Quail becomes matured within 6 - 7 weeks age and gives 250 - 300 eggs every year. So we can back up our investment in a short time.
>> Quail meet contains very less fat. So it is used for patients’ food. It eggs are can meat the want of nutrition. For these reason quail farming is profitable.

Breeds of Quail:
Here I describe two types of Quail.
Layer Quail: There are layer quail as poultry. Among them Farao, English White, Mancirial Golden, British range etc. are famous species. They are breed for eggs only.
Broiler Quail: Like poultry there are broiler Quail. The American Bobwhite, Indian White Breasted is notable. This kind of breed is rearing for meat only.
A full aged quail lifetime is about four years. At this time they lay 800 - 1200 eggs each of which is 8 - 12 gm weigh. And every quail is 150 - 250 gm weigh. The eggs of quail are very attractive to look at. The egg shell is blue, purple and black paint and stain in small droplets. In fact, every egg is a full child in future. For this they have to live 3 female quails with 1 male quail for several days. For breeding quail chickens we shoould use Incubator that gives goood result. The person who doesn’t have any Incubator they can use the help of hens. Because quail can’t breed eggs. For breeding chickens need 17 – 18 days. But  the chickens can’t adjust with environments directly. But they are sensitive. It takes 10 – 14 days to adjust with environments. At this time we should be careful to them. They should be taken to brooding house to warm them. They need external heat at this time.

Dwelling Place:
Like poultry or duck quail doesn’t need spacious room. But the room or cage should be airy and lighted. Rearing quail in liter or case system is proffitable. A cage of 130 – 150 cm length, 60 – 100 cm width and 25 -40 cm height can live 60 – 100 quails easily. But the net of cage should be thick so that the head and neck of the quail can’t get outside of the cage. And  mouse and moul can’t enter the cage. The water pot and food pot should fixed with cage side so that they can’t alter it may wet them that is harmful. The cage should kept in such a place so that they can’t wet in rain water or any other liquid. The wet area is very harmful for their health. Water pots and food pots may same size of poultry pots or smaller than those.
At the time of chicken rearing we must be very careful. At this time chicken should be rear in brood house. The chicken should be kept in brood house up to 14 - 21 days for brooding. Because at that time the chicken are very weak and sensitive. So at this time we should supply them foods of more calories. If we don’t do that then they may die for want of calories and cold. 
When the chicken are out of eggs if we transfer them in a different cage immediately then it is easy for brooding. The brooding system of quail is as that of poultry. In a large size quail farm requires separate brooder house so that the chicken can transfer there immediately. For rearing quail needs extra care. But in the space of 100 poultries can rear 1000 – 1200 quails.

Food of Quail:
Quail doesn’t need extra nutritious food so rearing them is easy and costless. They need extra care and nutritious food when they are just out from eggs. A full aged quail need 20 – 25 gm food per day. The food must contain protein 20 – 30 % and 2500 – 3000 kilo calories of metabolic energy available per kg of food. Generally the food we bought from market for poultry or duck contains this food quality. So we can buy that food from the market for quail. So we can supply poultry food for quail.
The food and pots may be smaller than that of poultry or duck. But they should tie with the cage so that they can’t alter or overturn and wet their body.

Health protection of Quail:
Quail does posses little disease as pigeon. But they may catch by diseases at very few times. We should take vet advice instantly when they are diseased. If any quail catch by any kind of disease then they must instantly remove from other quails. Otherwise the healthy quails may be sick and call vet for treatments. If any quail died of any disease we should inquiry the causes and instantly buried the dead quails.
Among the diseases of quail mucous diarrhea is significant. In this disease they leave stool frequently. They accept apathy of eating food and become weaker as well.
However, for farming Quail efficiently their food place and food pots must be clean and dry. And residence should be adequate light and airy. We have to supply balanced diet for them. Then the role of meat and egg production can be maintained efficiently and quail farming will be fruitful.

1 comment:

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