Features of quail feeding at home

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Quails can be kept in small cages and in aviary. Although you need to feed them the same way as any poultry, but there are some nuances.

Consider the characteristics of the conditions of detention and feeding, what should be the norm and how much to feed.

What to feed quail chicks?

Quail chicks at different ages are fed differently.

First of all, in the early days, the chicks still take the nutrients from the yolkwhich was not completely digested during the period of their incubation. That is why chicks are only fed with boiled eggs.

Secondly, at that age Chicks require high-calorie and vitaminized feed.

From the first days of life

• On the first day begin to give boiled steep chicken and quail eggs with shells.

• From the second day add to the diet grated low-fat cottage cheese at the rate of 2 grams per individual.
• From the third to the fourth day add greens (lettuce, dandelion, nettle, young grass) and begin to reduce the number of eggs in the feed.

Weekly

Already add raw protein feed 25% and 280 calories of energy and clabber.

Monthly and forth

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

Fifth week already give compound feed for adults. This feed already contains 15% crude protein.

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

You can also to cook the feed yourself:

• 240 g of a mixture of various cereals (millet, rice, oatmeal, barley, wheat);
• 144 g of cottage cheese or fish meal and dry skim milk;
• 16 g of chalk, shells.

Already sprinkled once a week dry gravel. Also mixed boiled potatoes and fresh vegetables (turnips, beets, carrots) and grated apples.

What to feed the hens, that would be a good rush?

The most popular feed the same as for layers. To make the hens well born Combine mixed feeds PK6 and PK5 with PK2 and dietary supplements (with vitamins "A" and "E") for young chickens.

The cheapest mixture turns out to be three-component in equal proportions: corn, soybean, alfalfa or meat and bone meal.

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

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

Feeding male quail

As mentioned, in the diet of quail, you can add weed seeds, cereals (soris, sorghum, millet), the larvae and the insects themselves.

Canary seed, boiled fish, boiled egg should prevail in the diet of males. But there are a few features in their feeding:

1. Rye exclude from the diet.
2. Legumes are added, both in the form of grain, and cooked.
3. Add poppy at the rate of 5-7 grams per head.
4. Bring Vika in the diet by mixing it with oats.
5. If you have not found a special feed for male quails, you can replace it. feed for parrots.
6. At least 2 times a day change the water in the drinker.

Vitamins

Additionally, vitamins are added and mixed into the feed from the following calculations (see table below):

Regarding trace elements in feed:

• Manganese 80 mg / kg.
• Zinc 75 mg / kg.
• Copper 5 mg / kg.
• Iron 100 mg / kg.
• Iodine 0.3 mg / kg.
• Cobalt 1 mg / kg.
• Selenium 0.1 mg / kg.

How to water?

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

There is no need to boil tap water. Let it settle for chlorine to erode. If the water is in doubt, just pass it through the filter.

Once a week, pour a weak-pink solution of potassium permanganate into the troughs, alternating it with a solution of selenium. For prophylaxis, add vitamin C to the water every 10 days. 1-2 tablets of ascorbic acid per liter are enough.

But B vitamins are best added separately. Otherwise, the vitamins will destroy each other during a chemical reaction in water.

Standards feed table

How much feed should I give per day?

Quail egg breeds give 22-30 g feed per individual. For meat breeds the amount of feed is a little more - 23-33 grams. On average, approximately 25 g per head. Feed fall asleep in the trough at 1/3 volume.

For adults, quails can already be given whole pears and apples. The fruit is clamped between the twigs of the cage.

Feed

So, there are many types of feed. Let's give some examples.

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

• PC-1 and PC-2. For composition similar to PC-5, only cheaper because of the addition of bran barley or wheat and chalk. Therefore, they feed adult birds;
• PC-2.2, PC-4, PC-6. These feeds are suitable for feeding quails. Although the best result gives a mixture of broiler feed for chickens (80%) and peas (20%);

What is the composition of feed?

Now let's take a closer look at the types of feed for quails of different ages.

For chicks

For chicks, it is better to replace feed in the first weeks with premixes and protein-mineral additives. Already grown fed starter feed.

Starter feed contains corn, sunflower meal, soybean cake, wheat, fodder yeast.

For adult birds

In addition to the already described feed PC-1, PC 3-4, you can use specialized for quail. For example, - "Kramar".

For layers

To get eggs quails are fed feed "Fidlayf", PKP-52k, PC 2-6, "Best Mix", "Salvit" or similar.

They include various grains of cereals, seeding, soybean and sunflower meal or cake, 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, toxin adsorbent, antioxidant, multienzyme composition, antibacterial and therapeutic drug.

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

Experienced poultry breeders make their own feed.

Recipe 1

Here is a simple example of feed:

• 100 g barley groats or barley;
• 400 g corn grits;
• 1 teaspoon meat and bone meal;
• 0.5 teaspoon vegetable unrefined oil;
• 50 g fish or ground beef;
• 50 g cottage cheese.

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

Recipe 2 (using premix)

The recipe for hens. In this and subsequent recipes you must add 10 grams of chalk.

• 200 g corn;
• 200 g wheat;
• 80 g 10% premix for layers;

• 90 g sunflower meal (it is better to take roasted);
• 90 g soybean meal;
• 45 g meat and bone meal;
• 45 g fodder yeast;
• 30 g pea;
• 10 g vegetable oil;

Recipe 3

• 100 g carrots;
• 200 g wheat;
• 100 g sunflower meal;
• 50 g soybean meal;
• 30 g meat and bone meal;
• 30 g fodder yeast;
• 10 g sunflower oil;

Recipe 4

• 100 g beets;
• 50 g boiled potatoes;
• 100 g cabbage;
• 200 g millet;
• 200 g semolina;
• 50 g meat and bone meal;

• 5 boiled eggs;
• 100 g cottage cheese;
• 50 g fodder yeast;
• 10 g vegetable oil;

Recipe 5

• 100 g millet;
• 100 g oatmeal;
• 100 g cottage cheese;
• 100 g minced fish;

Recipe 6

• 100 g millet;
• 100 g corn grits;
• 100 g pea groats;
• 50 g myakostochnoy or fish meal;
• 100 g cottage cheese;

Recipe 7

Universal recipe, only the ratio of the weight fractions of the components is changed, in accordance with the table below.

Conclusion

Here are some final tips:

• If there is no special feed, increase the amount of protein feed and herbs (carrots, cabbage).
• Do not pick grass near the roads.
• Fish waste and minced meat store at a temperature of -1 ... -3 ° C no more than 6 months.
• Use a meat grinder (manual or electric) for mixing stuffing with other quail foods.
• In the spring, during the breeding season quailDiversify the nutrition of breeding quail fodder mixture for parrots and canaries and eliminate from their diet a month before the factory feed.
• Also add 1-2 tbsp. spoons of powdered milk in feed.