How to feed quails

Over the last decade, Japanese quail has become the poultry type with the greatest increase in its numbers in small farming operations. This may be due to the increasing popularity of quail eggs produced in limited spaces, fast development before the start of egg laying and relatively modest nutritional demands.

Japanese quails grow fast and reach sexual maturity in as little as 6 weeks. The egg laying types lay more than 300 eggs weighing 10 to 11 g on average each year. As the relative yield from quails is higher than the relative yield from chickens, their nutritional demands are also higher. Therefore, improvising is not a good option if you want to succeed. Many breeders used fodder for turkeys in the past but especially the structure of this fodder was unsuitable for quails. Fortunately, special feeding mixtures formulated for quails are now available.

Feeding mixtures with approximately 24% content of nitrogen compounds are suitable for young quails (up to 6 weeks old). We recommend the Quail Mini  mixture from our range of products. Once quails start producing eggs from the 7th week, switch to mixtures with approximately 19% content of nitrogen compounds. Our Quail Gold product is suitable for this stage. If the animals are too fat, a small percentage of wheat groats may be added to their feeding dose.

Fattening quails also takes only 6 to 7 weeks. The Quail Mini fodder is suitable for these purposes and 20% of corn groats can be added in the final stage of fattening (approx. 1 to 1.5 weeks before slaughter).

*There are especially created meat breeds weighing around 0.5 kg.