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Quail Eggs

Quail Eggs (as used in your home) for cooling the eggs. This type conditioner removes moisture from the air; the idea is to add moisture to the air. The egg is mostly water; take away this moisture, and the egg is worthless.

Do not wash dirty eggs or wipe clean with a damp cloth, or you will remove the natural protective coating of the egg and leave it exposed to entry by germs and other organisms. Some discard dirty eggs; however, moderately dirty eggs may be   salvaged with some work and care. Remove excessive dirt and dry matter by scraping with a sharp blade. Do not use sandpaper as this reduces the integrity of the shell.

Holding eggs longer than 10 days in storage affects hatch-ability. Therefore, plan your incubation program so eggs are not stored longer than 10 days. Planning ahead saves headaches, frustrations, and money.

Before placing cool, stored eggs into the incubator, allow them to warm to room temperature. Otherwise, the shock of going from 55ºF to 100ºF can cause sweating and may reduce hatch-ability.

Incubation

Improper adjustment of the incubator and careless egg incubation can ruin all plans. The following pointers may serve as reminders of correct incubation procedures:

Determine the size and type incubator needed for your future quail business. Game bird equipment suppliers can furnish you with capacities and capabilities of various    makes and models. For continuous setting you need an incubator with a separate hatching unit.

Thoroughly clean and disinfect the incubator and hatcher before each usage. For complete details on egg and incubator sanitation, contact Ecochick Quails Ltd 0707787884

Constantly check the incubator and hatcher during operation to insure that the temperature and humidity are correct. Correctness of both is essential for a good hatch. The incubator and hatcher should be in a room where no major variance in temperature or humidity occurs.

Common Causes of Poor Hatchability

• Continuous disturbance of breeders during mating season results in higher percentage of infertile eggs.

• Keeping blood line over 3 years may result in problems.

• Using eggs from old breeders.

• Hen or rooster crippled or deformed results in infertile eggs.

• Too many hens per rooster.

• Holding eggs in storage too long.

• Improperly storing eggs before incubation.

• Failure to turn eggs.

• Not allowing stored eggs to reach room temperature before incubating.

• Wide variation of temperature during incubation.

• Improper humidity during incubation and particularly during hatch-out period 21-23rd day.

• Poor sanitation and failure to clean hatcher.

• Washing eggs.

Management of quails

1. At the age of six- weeks , female Quails usually weight ‘’ 175- 200 gms.’’ And the males weight about ‘’125-150 gm.’’

2. Females start laying eggs at 7 –weeks of age and continue upto 22-weeksof age

3. Usually egg laying happens during the evening time of the day .

4. The Quails egg usually weight about ‘’ 9 to 10 gm.,and also goes to 12gm. With properly nutrition- care.quail

5. The breast of the male is usually narrow , and covered with equally distribute brown and white feathers. But the female quail has a broad breast covered with brown feathers with black- dots.

6. The male and female quails should be separated at the age of 4- weeks .

7. Sixteen hours of light perday should be available to the egg laying Quails .

Reproduction

• Quails starts laying their eggs at the age of 7th week. They attain 50% eggs production at 8th week of age.

• IN order to produce , fertile eggs the males should be reared along with the females at 8 to 10 weeks of age .

• The male , female ratio is 1:5 .

• Incubation – period is 18 day .

• With 500 femaless , we can produce 1500- chicks week

Facts about diseases of quails

1. When there is deficiency of vitamins and minerals and minerals in the female quail breeders , the chicks obtained from their fertile eggs are usually lean with weak legs .

2. To prevent this the breeder females should be provides with optimum minerals and vitamin in their feed .

3. Generally Quails are resistant to infectious diseases than chicken .so there is no vaccination required for quails .

4. Proper management of  chicks , dis-infecting farm premise , providing clean drinking water to quails and feeding of quality concentrate feed will prevent diseases outbreak-s in farms

RearingMale Quail already make a different sound which is usually disturbing to the human . When rearing the male and female together , the male peck the other  and make them blind , At-times death of quails are also noticed