(1) Mineral feeds: shell meal, gypsum, salt, bone meal, sand and gravel.

(2) Vitamin feed: including green juicy feed, hay powder and vitamin preparations. Quail like to eat a variety of green and tender vegetables, pasture, fruits and melons, but the amount of feeding can not be too much, generally not more than 30% of the diet.

(3) energy feed: energy feed source is mainly cereals, corn, broken rice, barley, sorghum, millet and so on. Corn contains high energy, good palatability, yellow corn is also rich in carotene. In the quail feed, corn can account for 40% -50%. Broken rice containing metabolic energy is also high, can account for 10% -20%. Barley is less palatable, contains more crude fiber, feed can account for about 10%. Wheat is richer in starch, containing 10% -20% of the protein, but because of its high price, less application. Sorghum in the quail feed accounted for no more than 10%. Millet because of its nutrient-rich, palatable, suitable for chicks as feed, can account for 10% -30%.

(4) protein feed: there are two kinds of animal protein feed and plant protein feed: animal protein feed with fish meal, bone meal, silkworm pupae, small fish and shrimp, etc.; plant protein feed with soybean cake, peanut cake, vegetable flour cake, cotton seed cake, etc.. Fish meal is the most commonly used animal protein feed, containing 40% -70% protein. High-quality bone meal contains more than 40% protein. Silkworm pupa contains about 50% protein, but poor palatability, in the diet can account for 5% -10%. Small fish, shrimp, crabs, etc. are good sources of animal protein. Soybean cake and peanut cake contain 20%-40% protein, but do not use cold-pressed oil cake. Canola cake contains about 30% protein, should be heated and boiled before feeding quail. Cotton seed cake also contains about 30%, but because it contains cotton phenol, it should be de-toxicized before use. The diet can be fed about 5%.

Quail farming

A, site preparation

Quail field house can generally be used and remodeling of the original house, preferably with a roof, to the cement floor is good, large quail farms should be designed and demonstrated.

Second, the preparation of facilities

The main equipment for quail breeding cages, there is no finalized product, according to the different stages of growth of homemade cages.

1, quail cage

Mainly for 0 ~ 3 weeks of age quail chicks, cage walls and cage roof can be made of wood or plastic, the front of the glass window, the bottom of the cage made of 6 mm × 6 mm or 10 mm × 10 mm woven metal mesh. The heat source can be incandescent lamps, electric heating wire (300 watts, series, evenly distributed), electric heating pipe (plate). Configuration of special food and water troughs. Small brooder cage specifications are generally 100 cm × 60 cm × 30 cm, set up 2 to 3 cage door, can be stacked 4 to 5 layers, each layer under a manure plate.

2, baby quail cage

For 4 to 6 weeks of age (breeding) baby quail (including fattening), can be used with chicks, and adult quail cage structure is the same. The same structure as the adult quail. You can also use the brooder cage for chicks, and set up the food and water troughs outside the cage.

3, adult quail cage

Can be divided into overlapping type, full ladder type, half ladder type, and the whole box type, box type several types. Overlap type more to double column, 4 ~ 5 layer configuration, each layer of 100 centimeters long, 60 centimeters wide, 24 centimeters high, 28 centimeters high on both sides. Cage wall bars spacing 2.5 cm, bottom net mesh to 20 mm × 20 mm or 20 mm × 15 mm is good. Hanging food and water troughs in the foreground of the cage. The top mesh is made of plastic mesh. There are 4 units on each floor, each unit has 2 breeding male quail and 5-6 female quail, or 10 egg-laying quail. Egg-laying quail can also be used 6 to 8 layers of dense feeding cage

Three, the preparation of feed

Farming quail feed ingredients are easy to solve, mainly to master the formula of the feed.

Four, the preparation of the introduction of seeds

Before the introduction of seeds should be comprehensive, multi-faceted understanding of the sources of seed supply, master the relevant basic knowledge, to have seedling business qualification units to buy the principle, adhere to the principle of quality than, price than, than the principle of service, adhere to the principle of the proximity of the purchase of the principle of the quality of the seeds off, price off, the structure of the good off.