Quail farming is very economical yet very rewarding . It requires minimum floor space and needs low investment<\/p>\n
Quails are comparatively sturdy birds, they can be marketed at an early age ie. five weeks<\/p>\n
They have an early sexual maturity, starts laying eggs in about six to seven weeks of age, have high rate of egg laying -280 eggs per year<\/p>\n
Quail meat is tastier than chicken and has less fat content. It promotes body and brain development in children.<\/p>\n
Nutritionally, the quail eggs are\u00a0on par with that of chicken eggs. Moreover, they contain less cholesterol. Quail meat and eggs are a nutritious diet for pregnant and nursing mothers.<\/p>\n
General management<\/strong><\/p>\n At the age of six weeks, female quails usually weigh 175-200 g and the males weigh about 125-150 g<\/p>\n Female quails start laying eggs at 7 weeks of age and continue up to 22 weeks of age.\u00a0In order to produce fertile eggs, the male quails should be reared along with the females at 8-10 weeks of age.\u00a0The male, female ratio is 1:5<\/p>\n Usually egg laying happens during the evening time of the day.\u00a0Incubation period in quails is 18 days<\/p>\n The quail egg usually weighs about 9-10 g<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The female and male quails should be separated at the age of four weeks<\/p>\n Sixteen hours of light per day should be available to the egg laying quails<\/p>\n The day old quail chicks usually weigh 8-10 g. Hence, the quail chicks need more temperature. Absence of adequate temperature and exposure to high speed cool wind leads to clustering of young ones, which results in high mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quail farming is very economical yet very rewarding . It requires minimum floor space and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}