Hello, dear friends of life in contact with nature in Agricultural Mindset comunity. Today I tell you that I am very happy because my new venture is becoming more and more prosperous.
I'm referring to my quail breeding. For those who do not know me, I love gardening and I have abundant plants in my garden with pots full of beautiful plants. Now I have decided to dabble in quail breeding and little by little I'm getting more and more knowledgeable about this activity.
As I now have 14 quails I bought them a cage, it is used, but in good condition. It has an appropriate place to put the feed and the quails can stick their heads through the bars and eat whatever they want.
Every day I start to feed them with preparation with high protein content so that the oviposition system develops. So as they have 4 days with new food I have to wait for their bodies to adapt to the new food so that all the females, which are 11, start laying their eggs.
I had to remove one male from the group and put him aside because the others were biting him too much. Now he is alone with three females who have not yet laid their first egg. I am on standby.
Also along with the cage, which I bought, I ordered a homemade incubator to start breeding my baby quails. It is used but everything is in good condition.
To set up the incubator I had to watch many videos to learn how to control the parameters that regulate the humidity and temperature inside the incubator. If I can't master these parameters I won't be able to set the eggs I have already selected. I don't want to suffer disappointment and the eggs end up cooking in there because I don't know how to manage the data well.
The two parameters to control are humidity and temperature. The humidity at the start should be around 45% and the temperature should be between 37°c and 38°c.
The temperature is controlled in the range but the humidity is costing me a little more. I have to control the water containers inside the incubator. There at the end, there is a container with water that should be allowing the humidity to be adequate. If the humidity decreases below the limits, the eggs may suffer alterations at the moment of hatching. The same happens if the humidity increases. From what I have read, it should only be increased to 65% or 75% when there are three to four days left to hatch. This is because the eggs will need a lot of humidity to soften the shell and hatch the chicks.
The incubator has a light bulb inside with a thermoregulator outside that turns on and off every so often to control the internal temperature.
This morning I have to learn how to correct these parameters and master their changes in order to lay quail eggs in the afternoon. I am very excited about learning about raising my quail. There are many other pieces of information to control humidity that I will be implementing as the situation arises.
I have 10 eggs that I have selected as being the prettiest, with the most detail on the shells, heaviest, bulkiest, and brightest. From these eggs, there is always a population that will not hatch either because I have chosen a non-fertile egg or because I have made mistakes during incubation. I hope to do my best so that no unforeseen accidents happen to my eggs.
If all goes well in 17 days I will be posting my new baby quail experience.
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All photographs are my property, taken with the Redmi note 9.
