Raising small quails can also set you on the path to higher income and prosperity

A few days ago, this writer walked into the quail farm in Toudun Village, Jinji Town, Tianchang City, and saw Miao Lijuan and her husband Huang Chunlong busy feeding the small quails and cleaning up the farm. At present, this farm raises 3 batches of quails, more than 60,000 in total.

Miao Lijuan is 27 this year. In June this year she left her hometown of Wuxi with her father Miao Zhongze and came to Toudun Village, Jinji Town, to set up camp. They invested more than 30,000 yuan to rent 10 vacant rural houses with 48 rooms as a quail farm, and invested another 150,000 yuan to buy more than 40 iron-cage quail houses and more than 20,000 quail chicks from a quail breeding base in Jiangyin, Jiangsu, and brought them back to raise; after two months they can lay eggs and reproduce. The local power supply department renovated the farm's worn-out power lines. They also bought high-quality quail-specific feed from Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu. The couple worked from dawn to dusk, feeding the quails twice on schedule, cleaning, disinfecting and vaccinating, and adjusting and controlling the indoor temperature, so that the quail survival rate reached more than 96%.

Hard work brought the joy of a good harvest. At present, their family is in the peak sales season for quail eggs, selling about 700 jin of quail eggs a day, and market demand exceeds supply. Miao Lijuan said that after the quails' laying period ends, the quails can be sold on the market for 1 yuan each, and the quail manure sold to local grape and vegetable growers as organic fertilizer is also a considerable income. Over a year, her family raises more than 60,000 quails in total, and a net income of 120,000 yuan is certain; once cash flow is better, they will expand the scale of quail raising.