Sunday, July 18, 2010

Breeding Quails

Spore reports on mini-livestock:
Breeding quails, also known as coturniculture (from the Latin Coturnix) has taken off in Cameroon following publication in The Farmer’s Voice of an article on the therapeutic and dietary benefits of quail eggs...Quails can be kept in cages that are easy to make from local materials, with 70 birds/m2 (one male for four or five females). The cages can be stacked on top of each other. Quails need just 20 g of food a day and the breeder can make up its feed from whatever is available
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