How to Cultivate the Quail

The cultivation of pigeon cattle can indeed be used as a side job besides the very easy way quail bird is a poultry whose existence is now crowded hunted people, especially for the eggs taken, we can also benefit from the sale of the bird egg itself, In addition, the delicious quail meat is also a special attraction. For those of you who are interested in raising the following quail Complete Guide How to Cultivate Livestock Birds Quail.

Terms of Maintenance

Like other birds, quails are also very sensitive to noise. Therefore, in its maintenance required an environment that is not close to a big road, market, workshop, or other noise sources. This calm is meant to avoid the occurrence of stress on the quail that will result in the decline in egg production.
The need for quail living should be easy to obtain, such as close to water sources (wells or rivers). Water is not only used for drinking quail is also used to clean quail cage equipment, such as a place to drink or feed. The shop where to buy quail food (poultry shop) is not too far away.
Bamboo or wood materials for the purpose of making the pen and cage equipment (where feed and drink) should be easily obtained.

Cage Making

In raising quails, you need seeds and it will be better if you start from seeds that are ready to lay eggs. In addition to requiring quail, you also need the materials and equipment used to make the enclosure and equipment as follows.

Tools and materials
Material :

Bamboo;
Wooden Treasures;
Nail;
Wire netting;
Tools:

Hammer;
Elbow ruler;
Saw;
Zinc scissors;
Meter;
The enclosure needed is a cage that gets enough sunlight, not moisture and air out / enter smoothly. Such a situation would please quails. In addition, the cage should also be easy to clean, the placement of places to eat and drink does not make it difficult to fill it for breeders.

There are two forms of quail cages, namely:

Cage shed (cage for quails 1 day to 3 weeks old)
Adult quail cages (4 weeks and up).

Parent Stables

This cage is for quail until 3 weeks old. You must provide a warm cage, the way inside the cage of the solder placed the lamp as a heater. To find out if the heating lamp is sufficient or not, you can see quail behavior as follows.

If most of the quails gather near the lamp, it indicates less heat.
If the majority of quails out of the light, it indicates the temperature is too hot.
If the quail is spread evenly on the cage, the temperature is sufficient.
The enclosure can be a box with ventilation on the sides and floors covered with chaff with size 100 x 100 cm and height 30 cm (loading approximately 100 tail).

Adult Quail Cages

Cages for adult quail to spawning period are generally made with size 50 x 100 x 35 cm and given the legs with a height of 50 cm "The cage was filled with 30 to 45 tails. The enclosure is made using a wooden frame of the rafters, walls, and floors of the ram wire, enabling the cage to remain clean because the dirt can fall directly to the ground. The floor is made somewhat tilted so that the egg can go straight from the cage to the egg shelter.
Place of feed can be made from split bamboo and placed in front of the cage as well as a place to drink. In order to avoid food much wasted, due to the beak of the beak when the quail eats, where the feed is closed by using a wire ram.
Place of feed from split bamboo. Adult quail cages can also be made multilevel so it can save space.

General Characteristics

Before raising a quail, surely you should be able to distinguish between female and male quail. Common characteristics that can be seen to distinguish sex of quail is the color on chest hair, beak, and anus.

The female quail's chest hair is grayish-brown with white stripes or spots, while the male quail has reddish brown fur. The base of the male quail half is reddish brown, while the base of the female quail's beak is not reddish brown.

quail male quail females If you see the top of the male quail anus seen red lumps and if pressed will come out fluid like white foam, while the female quail no such traits.

Food and Drink

Food is a very important factor in supporting the success of quail breeding. Incorrect feeding, both in terms of quality (nutrition) and quantity (amount), will result in failure in raising this bird.

There are several forms of food that can be given to quails according to age. For quail at the beginning of growth (starter period), under 3 weeks of age, can be given mass or flour form. At age above 3 weeks the quail was given food crumble (granular).

Preferably, at the start of raising these cattle you buy ready-made quail food at a farm shop near your home. If you have had enough experience, it is not wrong if you start mixing or mixing your own food.

Feeding should be done twice a day, ie morning and evening. This is intended for food efficiency because if the feed is filled too full, many may be wasted when the quail eats.

In addition, with the routine of feeding, the opportunity to meet many and know the circumstances of the bigger quail. One important thing is to avoid food exposed to water because the food is wet easily attacked by fungus and become rotten. Drinking water should be given freely, meaning it is filled at all times. You can use well water or river water. Avoid drinking water that has been contaminated, let alone containing toxins and do not forget to clean the place to drink every 3 days

Treatment of the Spawning Period

A 6-week-old quail should be separated between the female and the male. If you are only intent on producing quail egg consumption (to be eaten), a good action is to simply place a female quail in one cage. The reason is, quail eggs that do not contain seeds are not easy to rot compared to those containing seed (for incubation).

If you wish to produce a hatching egg as well, you can mix the male and female in one cage. The ideal comparison between male and female quail is 1: 3 (1 male with 3 females).

Harvesting

You can harvest, eggs in the morning before giving food (approximately at 06.00). Harvest eggs should be placed somewhere. Cracked eggs are separated from whole eggs. It is also a good idea to separate eggs according to size so that you have egg level and of course the price can be different.