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How to Improve Quail Hatchability? Detailed Practical Measures
Quail (scientific name: Coturnix coturnix) has a body length of 18 cm, is small and plump, brown with obvious straw-yellow lanceolate stripes and irregular markings; both males and females have reddish-brown and black horizontal stripes on the upper body. The male has a dark brown chin, with the midline of the throat curving upward on both sides to the ear coverts, closely adjoining the buff collar. The buff supercilium contrasts clearly with the brown crown and eye stripe. The female also has similar markings but with less obvious contrast. It often moves in pairs rather than in flocks. It frequently occurs in plains, wastelands, stream sides, and hilly slopes overgrown with dense weeds or low shrubs, and sometimes also moves near cultivated land. It mainly eats weed seeds, beans, grains, berries, tender leaves, and young shoots; in summer it eats large numbers of insects and larvae, as well as small invertebrates. It is distributed in Europe, Africa, and northern, central, western, and southern Asia. In China it breeds from Shache, Yumin, and other places in western Xinjiang to Lop Nur in the east, and overwinters in southern and southeastern Tibet, sometimes also reaching Zhongdian in northwestern Yunnan.
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