In Russia, quail has long been considered exclusively royal food. A little later, this bird began to appear on the noble tables, and under the USSR it was exclusively an advantage of the highest party ranks. Today, the situation has not changed much. Not every store can buy this game. So the potential for growing quail as a business is really huge.
Profitability
Before you start your own business, you need to thoroughly study all the pros and cons. Breeding quails as a business starting from scratch is no exception. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate profitability, study all the reviews and only then begin to collect documentation and equip the site.
Let's start with eggs: their production is three or four times more profitable than chicken counterparts. Actually, with the right approach, profitability can reach one hundred percent. However, we will proceed from the average indicator and dwell on the “golden mean”.
pros
Breeding quails in order to get meat at a profitability is half as low. On average, this is twenty, or a maximum of twenty-five percent. But there are many other benefits. For example, a short production cycle allows you to recoup a quail business, reviews of which are sometimes very useful, literally in six months. For reference, it is worth noting that, for example, in pig production this indicator is much larger - at least one and a half or even two years.
Moreover, such a profitability of quail breeding is due to the fact that birds very quickly reach maturity. And this means that for meat growing the production cycle lasts from two to three months, besides, egg production can be achieved in the same time. So, quail breeding as a business due to its turnover will develop very quickly. Even by rough estimates, for six months you can go through three whole growing cycles for meat and reach a peak for egg production.
Features
Breeding quails as a business, according to those who are already engaged in this business, is profitable and not difficult. Especially when you consider the relevance, short deadlines for cost recovery and, of course, profitability. Long-term experience of professionals indicates that quail breeding will only make sense if the initial number of livestock is six hundred. But in this case, with the favorable growth of birds, their high fecundity and proper care, the number of quails per year can be increased by a factor of ten. But for this, certain prerequisites are needed: knowledge of the peculiarities of the breeding of these birds, the complete exclusion of all sorts of surprises, such as poor-quality food, infections, etc.
I must say that you need not only to choose a special room, but also to properly equip it: it must have lighting and must have heating. An important factor for the fecundity of these birds is a constant temperature: twenty degrees are considered optimal when humidity is up to seventy percent. In addition, the room should be well ventilated and there should be no drafts. All these are very important constituent conditions for such production as quail breeding.
Business plan
Growing this bird at home requires a relatively small investment. At the same time, the lion's share of the cost goes to the purchase of equipment, as well as livestock and hatching eggs. As a room for an industrial scale, as a rule, small hangars are used. Actually, quail cultivation takes place in them. The business plan in this case involves the following costs for the implementation of the project based on six hundred goals (in rubles):
- in the absence of own premises, the cost of rent (20 sq. m.) - from 10,000;
- acquisition of quail - up to 21,000;
- cell batteries - up to 8,000;
- incubator - 6,500;
- feed - up to 3,000;
- company registration - 1,000.
As a result, with an average calculation, you will have to spend about fifty thousand rubles, which under favorable circumstances will fully pay off in six months.
Business Prerequisites
Quails must be provided with a dry, warm room. With the correct placement of multi-story cages on an area of twelve square meters, it will be possible to contain up to a thousand birds. In this case, the presence of the following mandatory factors:
- the first and most important: a constant temperature within twenty degrees, since any sudden voltage drop can cause stress in quail and, as a consequence, mortality of the livestock;
- maintaining the optimum humidity indicator and ensuring the ventilation or conditioning of the room: experts do not recommend saving on the latter aspect - it is better to buy a good air conditioner;
- complete absence of drafts;
- soundproofing - quail is considered a very nervous bird, so sudden and sharp sounds cause him stress, which entails the termination of egg production and a slowdown in weight gain.
Industrial premises
Breeding quail as a business has its own nuances. And especially this concerns not domestic, but industrial production. If the room in which this bird is supposed to be raised is large, then it should be divided into several rooms. In one of them it will be possible to store and prepare the feed mixture, in the other there will be incubators, in the third - chicks will be kept.
Quail Breeding Equipment
For the maintenance of adult birds, it is most advisable to use cell batteries. They are equipped with feeders and drinking bowls. Typically, batteries consist of six cells connected to each other. They are made with a slight slope: this is done for the convenience of egg assembly.
In one battery it will be possible to grow no more than two hundred and fifty chicks. The cost of this equipment ranges from 2700 to 3300 rubles.
I must say that if quail breeding as a business is supposed to be carried out at home, then a future businessman with certain skills can make a feeding trough-battery on his own. To do this, he will need plywood with metal sheets, a welded galvanized network and fittings.
To grow chicks, boxes are required, the dimensions of which should be as follows: length and width - sixty-five, and height - twenty-five centimeters. They will need to be equipped with lighting lamps that will simultaneously warm up and maintain the necessary temperature conditions.
Incubator
Few people know that breeding quails both at home and in industrial conditions leads to the fact that females lose their instinct for hatching eggs. And this means that the future farmer will definitely need an incubator. Artificially supported egg hatching involves the use of a space in which there will always be a temperature of 37-39 degrees. A small livestock incubator can be made independently. To do this, you need drawings and diagrams. If the future farmer does not have experience in the manufacture of such devices, then he can purchase them in a specialized store. The market value of incubators varies from 3300 to 6500 rubles, depending on their size, functionality and the ability to set the temperature and humidity conditions.
Sales problem
Actually, the tasks associated with the sale of products are priority for any business. And growing quail is no exception. Those who do this outside of industrial conditions can initially organize a so-called “home” sales network for their products. It is as follows. Fresh quail eggs begin to be sorted out by acquaintances and friends, and so gradually applications are being formed for another product - for meat.
Breeding in an industrial environment involves a different scale of marketing, and therefore, profit. As a rule, eggs and quail carcasses are sold through deliveries to markets, supermarkets and smaller grocery stores, restaurants, boarding houses, kindergartens and schools, as well as to many other organizations.
Work force
If for growing at home only one pair of working hands is required, then in order to ensure uninterrupted and high-quality breeding on a large scale, several people will need to be hired. The duties of such workers include preparing feed mixtures, feeding birds, collecting eggs, cleaning and cleaning the premises or incubator, and controlling temperature and humidity.
It is recommended that one, without outside help, run such a business with a livestock volume of up to six hundred birds, then it should be considered according to mathematical progression: up to 1,200 quails will need one worker, up to 1,800 - two, etc.
Reviews and advice to entrepreneurs
Every beginner businessman who does not have sufficient experience in breeding these birds, it is better not to chase excessive turns at first. It should be borne in mind that quail is very capricious in keeping birds, so you need to be prepared for the fact that the “first pancake” can only bring losses. Many farmers who have been engaged in this business for more than one year remember how they had to get their own bumps: quail can die, for various reasons. In addition, they can grow poorly without gaining selling weight, carry
few eggs , etc.
Therefore, the smaller the flock at the beginning, the easier it will be to solve problems of any complexity. That is why, at first, experts advise focusing on the quality and conditions of keeping birds, and not on their quantitative composition.
In addition, small production volumes do not require a solution to the issue with the execution of many necessary documents or permits. Indeed, large batches of finished products without the availability of appropriate certificates on the market can not be launched.