Starters from day-old to four weeks of age are reared in brooder cages provided with strong lighting to give heat. They are fed 3 times daily with quail starter mesh. Growers and layers are from four weeks to about one year old. They are fed with quail layer or breeder feed twice daily.
Lighting is left on during the night to stimulated the birds to lay eggs.
The nutritional requirements of Japanese quail for protein, amino acids, vitamins and minerals will be discussed. Quails Quail belong, along with chickens, pheasants and partridges to the Family Phasianoidea of Order Galliformes of the Class Aves of the Animal Kingdom. Species or subspecies of the genus Coturnix are native to all continents except the Americas. One of them Coturnix coturnix or common quail are migratory birds of Asia, Africa and Europe. Several interbreeding subspecies are recognized, the more important being the European quail, Coturnix coturnix coturnix , and the Asiatic or Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica .