What Were the Quail Prices and Farming Profits in 2019? With Fattening Methods Included
The quail is a small bird of the Phasianidae family with dull-colored feathers; both its meat and eggs are edible, and it is rich in nutritional value. Nowadays, more and more quail are being raised.So what were the quail prices and farming profits in 2019? How do you fatten them?
1. Basic Introduction to the Quail
1. Distribution of the Quail
Quail generally move about in pairs, and their activity areas are usually plains, wastelands, stream banks and hillside slopes overgrown with dense weeds or low shrubs, and sometimes they also come near cultivated land. Quail mainly feed on weed seeds, beans, grains, berries, tender leaves and tender shoots, and they also eat insects and their larvae, small invertebrates, and so on. They are widely distributed across Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and Africa,
2. Value of the Quail
Quail meat is rich in protein, vitamins, fat and so on, and can enter the large intestine, heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It is suitable for patients with malnutrition, weakness and fatigue, anemia and dizziness, nephritis and edema, diarrhea, high blood pressure, obesity, arteriosclerosis and so on. Quail eggs, meanwhile, taste delicious and are rich in nutrients, and eating them has a skin-care and skin-beautifying effect.
2. What Were the Quail Prices and Farming Profits in 2019?
1. Quail Prices
At present, the price of quail eggs at the Fuxin Vegetable Wholesale Market in Liaoning is 11 yuan/kg, the price of quail eggs at the Beijing Dayanglu Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market is 9.6 yuan/kg, and the price of quail eggs at the Henan farmers' market is 8.3 yuan/jin. In Foshan, freshly slaughtered 3-4 liang quail are priced at 6 yuan each, and in Sichuan, a 4-quail set of spicy and salt-baked quail is 12.9 yuan.
2. Quail Farming Profits
The cost inputs of quail farming include quail chicks, starter feed, grower feed, losses from injury and death, and so on. Profits are divided into profits from egg production and from quail meat. A single quail can lay 6.36 jin of eggs; raising ten thousand quail and calculating at 4 yuan per jin yields a profit of 9000 yuan, with total revenue of 240,000 yuan, and after deducting the 190,000 yuan for total feed, the net profit is 20,000 yuan.
3. How Do You Fatten Quail?
Besides selling eggs, selling meat is also one of the key sources of income for quail, so fattening is very important for quail farming. The specific fattening methods are introduced below:
1. First, cull and fatten male quail that are not kept for breeding and have reached 5 weeks of age, and cull and fatten female quail with an egg-laying rate below 30% that have been laying for 1-1.5 years; then place the quail to be fattened into fattening boxes. The fattening boxes must be set up with places for feeding and drinking, and must also be well covered with wire mesh to prevent escape.
2. Quail fattening must be carried out indoors in dim light and quiet conditions, and the indoor temperature should preferably be 18-25 degrees, strictly preventing any disturbance; raise male and female quail separately, keep the stocking density per box at 30-40, and restrict their movement to reduce feed consumption.
3. Improve the feed. For the fattening feed of culled quail, corn, wheat bran, paddy rice and so on should be the main ingredients, making up 75-80% of the daily ration; protein feed can be reduced to 18%, and 0.5% table salt should be added to the feed. During the fattening process, feed 4-6 times per day and night, feeding until full, and keep drinking water clean and supplied in sufficient quantity.
Quail farming is not very difficult, the investment is not large, and not much money needs to be spent on labor. Moreover, quail now have a relatively large market in the catering industry, so the prospects for farming them are quite good.