Poultry Farming

How to Feed Quail

High-quality compound feed will allow balanced feeding of domestic poultry, including meat quail and egg-laying quail. You can prepare your own diet, but you should add a premix.

Editorial team agronom.info 19 февраля 2021 3 min reading

To ensure domestic poultry develops well, they need balanced nutrition. If you try to make grain mixes yourself, you must include many additives in optimal amounts. It is much easier to buy ready-made poultry feed, which contains all the necessary micro- and macroelements for a flock of a certain age. Such products are available in the online store avamarket.com.ua.

Compound Feed Assortment

Here you can find feed for:

  • egg-laying hens;
  • broilers;
  • quail;
  • geese;
  • chickens;
  • ducks.

Since broilers are kept for about 2 months, they need intensive protein-rich feeding during this period. Only then will they reach their maximum weight by the designated time.

You can buy broiler feed from the manufacturer on the Avamarket website. This balanced food contains grit, rapeseed oil, soybean meal, vitamins, and minerals.

At different stages of development, broilers require different feed types, namely:

  • starter;
  • grower;
  • finisher.

The same three varieties are used for finishing turkeys, geese, and ducks. Feed for egg-laying hens Mega Chick HQ G/F contains everything necessary to raise a bird of this breed from 9 to 70 days of life.

How to Feed Quail?

This bird can be kept not only in farms and private farms, but even at home. Some people buy spacious cages where several birds can comfortably reside, providing their family with nutritious eggs.

But it is important to feed quail correctly. To ensure they exhibit excellent egg-laying capacity in the future, you should start with the starter feed Mega Chick TQ S. It is recommended for quail aged 1–28 days. If these are meat quail, you can feed them this compound feed throughout their lives until slaughter. This starter feed is also suitable for chicks that will later become laying hens.

For meat quail, the special starter Mega Chick TQ S is recommended. It is also given to quail aged 1–28 days. The feed is also sold in large bags of 25 kg. It contains 24% crude protein, which is necessary for meat quail at this age.

You can also feed them with compound feed Mega Chick HQ G/F from the fifth day of life. This feed contains everything necessary for the growth and development of quail at this age. Thanks to this food, quail quickly gain weight, and later hens demonstrate excellent egg-laying capacity. This feed contains 16.7% protein. An adult quail needs 45 g of Mega Chick HQ G/F per day.

Premix Mega Chick Premium 5% for Meat Quail

If a private individual prepares feed for egg-laying quail themselves, they must add a premix. It will enrich the feed base and provide quail with necessary nutrients. Premix Mega Chick Premium 5% can be mixed with the following feeds to create an ideal ration. These are:

  • wheat;
  • corn;
  • soybean meal;
  • sunflower meal;
  • sunflower oil.

For meat quail, this premix is recommended to be given from the first day until slaughter. This additive is suitable for domestic poultry raised for meat.

Each poultry farmer will decide whether to feed their birds with fully prepared feed or to create their own diet by adding a premix. Additionally, fresh water should always be available to quail and other domestic birds, and during warm weather, you can diversify their diet with greens.

Editorial team agronom.info

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