Features of quail feeding at home

Quail can be kept in small cells and in aviary. Although they need to be fed the same way as any poultry, butthere are also nuances.

Let's consider the peculiarities of the conditions of keeping and feeding, what should be the norm and how much to feed.

What to feed the quail chicks?

Quail chicks at different ages are fed differently.

At first,in the early days the chicks still take nutrients from the yolk, which is not fully assimilated, during their incubation. That's why chicks are only fed steeply boiled eggs.

Secondly, at this agechicks require high-calorie and fortified food.

From the first days of life

• In the first daybegin to give cooked in a steep chicken and quail eggs with shell.

• From the second dayadd to the diet grated low-fat cottage cheese at the rate of 2 grams per individual.
• On the third or fourth dayadd greens (salad, dandelion, nettle, young grass) and begin to reduce the amount of eggs in the stern.

Weekly

Already addmixed feed with raw protein content25% and 280 calories of energy and curdled milk.

Monthly and more

Continue to feed mixed fodder for chicks.From the third week, little by little,. You can already mix cabbage, clover, alfalfa, spinach and other greens.In winter, the greens are replaced with sprouted oats, wheat, onions, millet, corn.

The fifth weekalready give mixed fodder for adults. Such mixed feed already contains 15% of crude protein.

If there is no such feed, then you can make it yourself from mixed fodder for chicks, adding small oats, barley or wheat cereals.This is done in this ratio:250 grams of mixed fodder mixed with 150 grams of cereals.

You can alsoto prepare feed by yourself:

• 240 grams of a mixture of different cereals (millet, rice, oatmeal, barley, wheat);
• 144 g of cottage cheese or fishmeal and dry inversion;
• 16 g of chalk, shell.

Already poured once a weekdry gravel. Also mixedboiled potatoes and fresh vegetables(turnips, beets, carrots) and grated apples.

What to feed the layers, that would go well?

The most popular feed is the same as for laying hens. To layers well rushed,Combine mixed fodder PC6 and PC5 with PC2 and bioadditives(with vitamins "A" and "E") for young chickens.

The cheapest mixture is a three-component mixture in equal proportions:corn, soy, alfalfa or meat-and-bone meal.

To increase the amount of vitamins, and to diversify the ration of quails, add worms, maggots, finely chopped kitchen waste.

In the summer, weed seeds are placed in the cells with ripened seeds.

Feeding of quail males

As already mentioned,in the ration of quail can be added seeds of weeds, cereals(soris, sorghum, millet), larvae and insects themselves.

In the diet of males must prevail canary seed, boiled fish, boiled egg. But there are severalfeatures in their feeding:

1. Rye is excludedfrom the diet.
2. Bean adds, both in the form of cereals, and cooked.
3. Add poppyat the rate of 5-7 grams per head.
4. Introduce the vetchin a diet mixing it with oats.
5. If you do not find a special feed for the male quail, then it can be replacedfood for parrots.
6. At least 2 times a daychange the water in a trowel.

Vitamins

In addition, vitamins are purchased and mixed into the feed from the following calculations (cf. see the table below):

Concerning microelements in the stern:

• Manganese 80 mg / kg.
• Zinc 75 mg / kg.
• Copper 5 mg / kg.
• Iron is 100 mg / kg.
• Iodine, mg / kg.
• Cobalt 1 mg / kg.
• Selenium, mg / kg.

How to drink?

It all depends on where you take the water.If from the river, then always boil and allow it to cool. When you get out of a well or a well, let it warm up so that the birds do not catch cold.

You do not need to boil tap water.Give it to stand up to bleach out the chlorine. If water is in doubt, then simply pass it through the filter.

Once a week, pour a slightly pink solution of potassium permanganate into the drinkers, alternating it with the selenium solution. For preventive maintenance add in water time in 10 days vitamin C. It is enough 1-2 tablets of ascorbic acid per 1 liter.

And hereB vitamins are best added separately. Otherwise, vitamins will destroy each other during a chemical reaction in water.

Feed rates, table

How much food should I give per day?

Quails of egg breedsgive 22-30 g of feed per individual.For meat-meat breedsthe amount of food is slightly larger - 23-33 grams. An average of about 25 grams per head. Feed is covered in feeders by 1/3 of the volume.

For adult quails it is already possible to give whole pears and apples. Fruit clamped between the twigs of the cell.

Feedstuffs

So, there are many kinds of mixed fodders.Let's give some examples.

• PC-5(corn, sunflower meal or soybean, wheat, fishmeal, etc.) - suitable for feeding the parent herd;

• PC-1 and PC-2. The composition is similar to PC-5, only cheaper due to the addition of bran barley or wheat and chalk. Consequently, the adult bird is fed;
• PC PC-4, PC-6.These mixed fodders are suitable for fattening quails. Although the best result is a mixture of broiler feed for chickens (80%) and peas (20%);

What is the composition of mixed fodder?

Now, in more detail, we will consider the types of mixed fodders for quails of different ages.

For chicks

For chicks it is better to replace mixed fodder on the first weeks with premixes and protein-mineral supplements.Already grown up feed fed feed.

Starting feed contains corn, sunflower meal, soybean meal, wheat, fodder yeast.

For adult birds

In addition to the already described feeds PC-1, PC 3-4 can also be used for quail. For example, - "Kramar".

For laying hens

To get the eggquail feed fed Fidlife, PKP-52K, PC 2-6, "Best Mix "Salvit" or similar.

In their composition, a different grain of cereals, seeding, meal or soybean meal and sunflower seed meal, soybean extrudate, fish and meat-and-bone meal, corn, corn gluten, limestone, shell, micro- and macroelements, vegetable oil, amino acids, various vitamins and minerals, premix, adsorbent toxins, antioxidant, multienzyme composition, antibacterial and therapeutic a drug.

How to make feed with your own hands at home, proportions?

Experiencedpoultry farmers do their own feed by their own hands.

Recipe 1

Here's a simpleexample of mixed fodder:

• 100 gbarley cerealsor barley;
• 400gcorn cereals;
• 1 teaspoonmeat and bone meal;
• , a teaspoon of vegetableunrefined oil;
• 50 gramsfish or minced meat;
• 50 gramscottage cheese.

Do not forget to add greens to the ration of quails.

Recipe 2 (using premix)

Therecipe for laying hens. This and subsequent recipes are necessaryadd 10 grams of chalk.

• 200 gmaize;
• 200 gwheat;
• 80 g of 10%premixfor layers;

• 90gsunflower meal(it is better to take a fried);
• 90gsoybean meal;
• 45 gramsmeat and bone meal;
• 45 gramsfodder yeast;
• 30 gramspeas;
• 10 gramsvegetable oil;

Recipe 3

• 100 gcarrots;
• 200 gwheat;
• 100 gsunflower meal;
• 50 gramssoybean meal;
• 30 gramsmeat and bone meal;
• 30 gramsfodder yeast;
• 10 gramssunflower oil;

Recipe 4

• 100 gbeets;
• 50 gramsboiled potatoes;
• 100 gcabbage;
• 200 gmillet;
• 200 gsemolina;
• 50 gramsmeat and bone meal;

• 5 cookedeggs;
• 100 gcottage cheese;
• 50 gramsfodder yeast;
• 10 gramsvegetable oil;

Recipe 5

• 100 gmillet;
• 100 goatmeal;
• 100 gcottage cheese;
• 100 gminced fish;

Recipe 6

• 100 gmillet;
• 100 gcorn cereals;
• 100 gpea groats;
• 50 gmsalmon or fish meal;
• 100 gcottage cheese;

Recipe 7

A universal recipe, only the ratio of the weight fractions of the components varies, according to the table below.

Conclusion

Here are some final tips:

• If there is no special compound feed, increase the amount of protein foods and herbs (carrots, cabbage).
• Do not pick up the grassnear roads.
• Fish waste and minced meatstore at a temperature of -1... -3 ° C for not more than 6 months.
• Use the meat grinder(manual or electric) for mixing minced meat with other foraging quails.
• In the spring,during the breeding season of quails, diversify the feeding of the breeding quail with a forage mixture for parakeets and canaries and exclude from their diet a month before the factory feed.
• Alsoadd 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of milk powderin the feed.