How To Become A Quail Breeder

Hello, I am Nino Castellano from welwynquail.com and today I am going to talk to you about quails. How to become a quail breeder.

To become a quail breeder, to start with, you need the quails. To get the quails, there are two ways to do that. You can buy hatching eggs which you can hatch and then, there are chicks, and then when they grow up, you have your quails, or you can go and buy quails from a breeder.

The most important thing is that when you buy quails or when you hatch quail eggs, you have a portion of quails from different breeders because you don't want too much in the breed with the quails. If you buy quails from one breeder, usually they are brothers and sisters unless the breeder explains exactly to you if they got them from different bloodlines. This is very important because in the next generation, the size and the quality of the birds depends if they are related or not.

If there are brothers and sisters or mother and son, means that the birds are losing the quality of the feathers, the size and of course, the ailment. You're going to have lots of genetic problems if you breed a brother and sister or mother and father or mother to son. So, it is well-advised that you get a number of breeders from different sources so that it will be very unlikely that they are related.

When you have got the breeders, usually the right ratio between quails is 1 to 3 or 1 to 2, all depends if you can get spare ends. Otherwise, with too many males, they would be chasing the few females around and often, they can fight and eventually, you can come into dead ends, which means that they can kill each other. One more important feature that you have to bear in mind, it is the size of your pen or aviary.

According to the size, that is the number of quails that you can keep. Too crowded pens or aviary is setting really for the birds to fight for domination of a territory. The quail in a natural habitat is on their own for a certain period of the year and just get together for breeding.

When you keep quails into an aviary, it means that you are keeping together enough number of quails that they need certain space for their behaviour. If they are too crowded though, all there in a very small environment, without doubt, they will fight. So, the suggestion is to have some hiding places in the pen so if this happens, the quail can hide.

It's not important to have an outside or inside aviary, the quails are very odd birds. Without problem, we set temperature below zero. You can get a pen that has got an indoor accommodation with an outside aviary or you can have the outside aviary.

That is not important. The only thing that they need is some sort of box or shelter. Then, if the weather gets too wet or too cold, they can go inside a box of hiding places where they can cuddle together stay warm.

The most important thing to bear in mind is that dampness and wet is the thing that kills most of the animals in the wild, so therefore it is very important that the quails are kept in a wet-free environment and possibly not very damp. .