White Texas Quail

The Texas quail, or Texas pharaoh, is a meat breed with high productivity. His weight is one of the largest of all varieties of this species. Egg production is quite low, but this is fully offset by meat productivity. The maintenance and breeding of quail is simple, it is recommended for both industrial and domestic cultivation.

Content
  1. Description of the breed
  2. Productivity of the breed
  3. Advantages and disadvantages of the breed
  4. Content of quail
  5. Feeding of quail
  6. Breeding quail
  7. Care and feeding of young

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Texas quail

Description of the breed

Quail Texas white is a broiler with an appropriate body structure. The birds are large, stocky and muscular. They gain weight very quickly, though some cases may be obese. To distinguish this variety in appearance is quite easy. The description of the appearance of the Texas quail and its features are as follows:

  • The head is average.
  • The eyes are dark.
  • The beak is light, sometimes has a dark tip.
  • The neck is short.
  • The body is plump, full, small in stature.
  • The chest is very forward.
  • The back is expanded, bent by an arc.
  • Legs are well developed, muscular.

Texas quail – albino, color is ie white, zatylochke have small black dots, sometimes they are scattered throughout the body, forming a marble pattern. When buying quails, individuals should be chosen that have few black patches.You also need to take a good look at the structure of the plumage: it should be fluffy, a little loose. Such birds gain weight better. To look at the appearance and characteristics of Texas white quail, see the photo.

Productivity of the breed

The ancestor of the Texas white quail was Japanese and English white quail. Other breeds were also used for breeding. From English birds, the Texan received a white color of plumage and a good increase in mass. The broiler species boasts the following product characteristics:

  • Live bird weighs an average of 400 g.
  • The weight of the finished carcass is 250-260 g.
  • Egg production is low. – about 120-160 testicles per year.
  • Egg weight – 12-14 g.
  • Females begin to rush in 50-60 days.

Some individuals can gain weight up to 550 g. But such quail is not suitable for breeding. Their weight is achieved mainly due to the high fat content. The chart of the mass growth of the chicks shows that they gain weight very quickly. The pharaoh’s quail carcass has a light shade, the skin is yellowish. Meat contains more than 20 useful elements and vitamins, low cholesterol. It is recommended for children, allergy sufferers, with heart pathologies and gastrointestinal diseases.

Advantages and disadvantages of the breed

Quail Texas breed quickly conquer the market. This is one of the most promising breeds for industrial breeding in any climatic conditions.You can keep birds at home, if the main purpose of growing is to get meat. The breed has many advantages, these are the main ones:

  • Fast growth and weight gain.
  • Good taste and characteristic meat composition.
  • There are no problems with oviducts .
  • Undemanding maintenance.
  • Easy care at a low cost.
  • Good appearance of the carcasses.
  • Feathers easily leave the skin.
  • Although the quail runs poorly, the weight of its testicles is higher than that of other breeds.

Like any breed, the Texan has a number of drawbacks. The disadvantages include:

  • Low egg production.
  • Fertilization of eggs is not too high.
  • Relatively high feed consumption.
  • Difficult determine the sex of the Texas quail.
  • Males are too passive.
  • Chicks are often born weak.

Most of the shortcomings are fully compensated by the advantages of the breed, because it is so It is popular among poultry farmers and constantly receives positive reviews. So it’s worth buying these birds in your own farm.

Content of quail

To breed quail it is enough to select a barn with an area of ​​10-15 m². In such a room it is realistic to contain more than a hundred birds. Cells are bought or made with their own hands. The width of the box should be 40 cm, the length is 90 cm, and the height should be 20 cm (at a higher height, the quail can break its head). For 1 quail, 50 cm² of area is allocated per cage.If livestock is being actively fed, males and females are housed separately. In the parent flock, no more than 2 female quails should be included in 1 male representative.

Metal feeders and drinkers are attached to the outside of the cages. The front grill should have such gaps in which only the head will stick in, but the whole body will not be able to squeeze through. In the lower part they put special trays for collecting eggs and litter. They need to be checked and cleaned in a timely manner, without this there will be an unkempt smell in the house. Texas white quail is quite resistant to various diseases. But improper care and dirt in the cells can trigger infections.

The content of Texas quails provides for proper lighting, ventilation and temperature conditions. Quails do not like bright light; cages cannot be placed near a window. It is best to equip the house with a fluorescent lamp with a power of about 25 kW. The ideal temperature in the house is 18-22 ° C, in winter it is worth considering heating. Good ventilation is also needed, but without drafts. Humidity in the house should be maintained at 55-65%.

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Feeding quails

Feeding white Texas quail is not particularly difficult: over a month a hundred birds eat about 4.5 kg of feed. By that time, the chicks are gaining sufficient mass, at about 1.5 months, until the quail has begun to molt, they can be sent for slaughter. If the female carries well, she can be kept for up to 7-8 months.

On industrial farms they prefer to use ready-made feed for broiler chickens. They include crushed grains of corn, barley, wheat, bran.About 30% are protein supplements (meat and bone meal and fish meal, soybean meal, lysine). Combined feed also includes mineral supplements and vitamins. Growing a house of Texas quail on a ready-made compound feed is also profitable, because its cost is not so high, and before slaughter age a hundred goals will take only 9-10 kg.

At home, quail food can be made independently. To do this, take equal parts of corn, wheat and barley flour, add meat and bone meal, chalk, salt, unrefined sunflower oil. Also at home, the quail is fed with vegetables: boiled potatoes, carrots, beets, in the summer they give zucchini, pumpkin, green grass. Boiled peas are well suited for intensive fattening. You can mix minced fish, broth in food.

Breeding quails

Breeding Texas quail is possible only in the incubator. Like most domestic breeds, he lost the instinct of hatching. First of all, you need to form a parent herd. Since the males of the Texans are not very active, no more than 2 females should be planted on them. More heap maintenance leads to the fact that the percentage of fertilization of eggs decreases. Eggs should be taken up to 3-4 months, then breeding birds are sent to slaughter and a new herd is formed.

Before replanting, you need to determine the sex of the white Texas quail. It is not always easy to distinguish between birds, as the color and size of males and females are approximately the same.To distinguish individuals, it is necessary to carefully examine the cloaca. In females it is with a bluish tint, in males it is pink. In addition, males have a small nodule, if you click on it, a foamy yellow liquid will start to stand out from the cloaca. Sex determination is best done at the age of 8 weeks.

Eggs for incubation of the Texas white quail breed should not be stored for more than a week. If you put seven-day material in the incubator, the hatchability will be 80%, in a ten-day one – 60%, from older eggs the chickens may not hatch at all. You can use a standard incubator to remove the chicks, but you should put a special tray for small eggs with a wire rack in it. The incubation temperature is 38-38.5 ° C, humidity is 65-70%. Quail hatch after 16-17 days.

Care and feeding of young calves

The better the care for white broiler quails, the more of them survive. In the first week, babies are kept in a brooder or a heated drawer. The temperature should be 33-35 ° C. In the second week, the temperature is reduced to 30-32 ° C, in the third – to 26-28 ° C. Humidity is maintained at 60-70%. The room should be well ventilated, you can occasionally treat it with an ultraviolet lamp.

Broiler quail chicks eat from the first hours of life. First they are given a boiled egg, from 2-3 days they add curd to the diet, at least 2 g per head. After 4 days give crushed corn grits, herbs, wheat bran.By 8 days they begin to mix feed for broilers and in 2 weeks completely chicks are transferred to them. They have been eating adult foods since a month.

Broiler quail is growing very fast. At 1.5-2 months they are sent for slaughter. Before this, selection is made, the best females and males are left for breeding, and the rest are sent for intensive feeding. Birds of different sexes are housed in separate cages, fed with high-calorie mixtures consisting of grain, boiled peas and protein supplements.

How much does the Texas quail breed cost? An incubation egg can be bought for 15-20 rubles, daily chicks cost about 40 rubles. The price of weekly quail is 60 rubles, and monthly quail – 140 rubles. An adult Texas quail costs 220-240 rubles. In most cases, prices for this variety are higher than for other breeds. This is due to the large mass of Texas white broiler quail and its high productivity.

When buying, you need to carefully choose a poultry farm and homestead. It is advisable to read reviews about the breeder, find out how long he has been breeding the breed. Also, it does not hurt to carefully consider photos and videos of Texas quails, so as not to purchase crosses with low productivity.

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