Incubation of quail eggs - the path to dietary nutrition

Quail females at home lost the ability to incubate young quail, so the process of their reproduction is based on the incubation of quail eggs. The withdrawal of the young is a rather difficult and delicate process. For this purpose, eggs are collected in the quail herd for subsequent incubation. To obtain a fertilized egg, joint maintenance of females and males is provided. Optimal option is considered, when for one male there are no more than four females.

The egg, intended for incubation, begins to be taken from the eight-week-old quail's females. The hatching egg should be clean, because Dirty can spoil and infect others. They are stored in a dry ventilated room with a temperature of no more than 20 degrees, humidity of air no more than 80%. Egg quail hatchery has a limited shelf life of 5-7 days, while the food can be stored for 3 months. The egg of a female at the age of more than 10 months can only be used for food.

Incubation of quail eggs, in addition, consists in the selection of eggs of medium size oval shape and normal surface, they should not have damage and visible defects. It is advisable not to use large and small eggs for this purpose. The result is worse. The incubator for quail eggs can always be purchased in ready-made form or buy a thermoregulator and make it yourself. For these purposes, almost any incubator is suitable, if it is possible to establish and maintain the desired temperature regime.

Before the next bookmark it is necessary to disinfect the incubator and the eggs laid down for incubation with special means or apply an ultraviolet radiator to exclude a possible disease. Quail eggs in size are inferior to chicken, so in the incubator for chicken eggs, you can make a bookmark almost three times as much. After making sure that the incubator is in working order, you can start bookmarking, while remembering that the eggs are laid so that the sharp end is directed at an angle down.

After the end of the bookmark, the incubation cabinet closes, and the process of monitoring temperature and humidity begins. Incubation of quail eggs begins at a temperature of 38 degrees, to evenly warm up the special system must periodically perform the turning of eggs. Within 15 days the temperature in the incubator is maintained within 37.7 degrees. On the 15-16th day, it is necessary to lay the eggs in a horizontal position in the brood tray or brood incubator, while systematically moistening them.

Indicator of incubation is proklev chick egg shell. If the sowing line runs along the circumference in the wide part of the egg, it is considered that the incubation passes in normal mode. The result of incomplete air exchange in the incubator is the pecking of the shell in the acute part of the egg. Excess moisture can also affect the site of the hatch and the inability of the chicken to get rid of the shell by itself. The specialists interpret the incubation regime of quail eggs in different ways, apparently, this is due to various factors (season, climate, type of incubator, etc.).

If the incubation process was normal, on day 17, the incubation of quail eggs should result in an intensive withdrawal of the quail. The conclusion is usually in 6-7 hours, even within 6 hours they dry out in the incubator and only then they are transferred to another place. Before that, they are recommended to drink water with a small dose of potassium permanganate. Despite the low weight (up to 8 g.), They are very mobile and can leak through small cracks and holes, so you need to worry about the appropriate mesh. If there is little quail during the withdrawal, the reason may be a small percentage of fertilized eggs, violations committed during storage or during incubation.