Quails raised at home can generally eat corn, sorghum, wheat and other grains, which are energy feeds. In addition, they also need to supplement protein feeds, vitamin feeds and mineral feeds. Protein feed generally uses fish meal, bone and meat meal, silkworm chrysalis, bean cake, etc. Vitamin feed is a variety of vegetables and fruits, and you can also choose hay powder or vitamin preparations. Mineral feeds include shell powder, salt, etc.

A very important indicator of quail feed is the protein content. It not only requires cheap plant protein, but also animal protein. Animal protein feed includes fish meal, bone and meat meal, silkworm pupae, small fish and shrimp, etc. , Plant protein feeds include bean cake, peanut cake, vegetable powder cake, cottonseed cake, etc. The egg laying period and seedling stage have relatively high requirements for protein content.

Quail habits

It should be noted that quails like warmth by nature and should avoid being extremely cold and hot. Generally, it is more appropriate for egg-laying quails to control the temperature around 20°C. When it is lower than 10°C or higher than 30°C, egg-laying performance will be affected. Under environmental conditions with a suitable room temperature, quails often stretch their necks and legs, and rely on each other closely without being buried in a heap.

Quails are suitable for cage keeping. When raised in groups, male quails still have aggressive characteristics, and female quails will also fight. Quails (especially quails before 5 days old) are very nervous and like to walk back and forth in the cage, always looking for gaps to escape, and they still have the habit of sand bathing, so they often do sand bathing in the cage.

Reference for the above content? Baidu Encyclopedia-Quail