The benefits of quail eggs are widely discussed. Almost any owner of a private house can keep several dozen quails - they need little space, and it is not very difficult to provide good conditions for laying eggs.
It is necessary
- - quail cages;
- - special food;
- - laying quails.
Instructions
Step 1
If you want to start a quail only in order to get healthy eggs, you do not need to take males at all. It will be quite enough to purchase laying hens at the age of one and a half to two months.
Step 2
Quail eggs begin to lay eggs very early - at the age of 40 days. If the weight of a bird reaches 90-100 grams, it is already capable of laying. The onset of maturity of the female can be guessed by the fact that she begins to publish a quiet whistle. In the first month, the female can lay a small number of eggs - from eight to fifteen, in subsequent months the clutch will be about twenty-five pieces. Quail productivity depends on age. When the female has just begun to lay, the mass of one egg will be no more than seven grams. Gradually, the weight of the egg increases, in a two-month-old quail it reaches 10-12 grams.
Step 3
Birds produce one egg per day. When the quail has demolished 5-10 pieces, it takes a break to rest for a couple of days. Up to three hundred eggs are obtained from one bird per year, each of which weighs about 18 grams. The small size of the quails does not prevent them from laying large enough eggs - their ratio to body weight is about 7, 6%.
Step 4
Saw eggs have the following dimensions: length 27.2 mm, width 22.5 mm. The shell has a thickness of 0.22 mm. Eggs can range in color from dark brown, white and blue to light yellow, with specks of brown, blue and black. Many factors can affect the color of eggs.
Step 5
Some females lay eggs with pigmentation that is characteristic of this particular individual. But if there are any inaccuracies or irregularities in the feeding or keeping of quails, the quails will lay eggs with a different color. For example, if the egg has been in the oviduct for a very short time, the shell does not have time to form properly and turns out to be thin, with a bluish tint. In cases of oviduct disease, the eggs turn out to be dark green.
