How to Raise Wild Quail? A Detailed Guide to Breeding Techniques and Management Methods

Quail is a common bird in the countryside. Whenever the rice ripens, it lays a large number of eggs in the fields, and quail eggs are highly nutritious and can be eaten in many ways, making them very popular. So how do you raise wild quail?

1. Choosing a site and building a coop

Try to choose a farm site with an adequate water source nearby, facing the sun and sheltered from the wind, and far from noisy areas such as urban districts and factories, yet with convenient transportation. After choosing the site, build a 2-meter-high farm enclosure using the flat-ground method. Lay the crossbeams on top in an inverted-V shape to prevent mice, snakes and other natural enemies of quail from invading and harming the quail's growth.

2. Selecting breeding stock

Select quail chicks of excellent quality, free of pests and diseases, with an epidemic-free certificate, not inbred, and with good reproductive capacity. Quail purchased this way adapt to the environment faster and are easier to raise to maturity.

3. Incubation management

After selecting the breeding stock, raise them together at a female-to-male ratio of 3:1 to encourage mating, fertilization and egg laying. About a week after laying, select eggs with clean, impurity-free shells, reasonably distributed and clear speckles, nearly identical specifications, and normal shape as breeding eggs. Store the breeding eggs at a temperature of around 15 degrees and a relative air humidity of around 78%. After about a week, the hatch rate can reach 4/5. When providing artificial assistance for incubation, machine incubation is mainly used, though electric blankets and various poultry foster-incubation methods can also be used.

4. Daily management

(1) Keep the enclosure clean: Carry out sanitation and cleaning promptly to ensure the farm enclosure stays clean and tidy. Secondly, disinfect the farm enclosure at irregular intervals to prevent bacteria, pathogens and the like from infecting the quail and affecting their normal growth, thereby reducing the harm of pests and diseases to the quail from the root.

(2) Feeding requirements: If the quail have just hatched, we should give them water before their first feed, and then provide water reasonably according to their age in days after hatching, which can improve the quail's immunity. Secondly, after the first feed, ensure balanced nutrition by using feed that is easy to digest, easy to absorb and nutritionally complete. Finally, the feed should not be too coarse, and we should reasonably control the number of feedings according to the quail's different ages in days, generally around four to eight times, and control the amount of feed.