Breeding quails is quite a profitable business and an interesting occupation. These are beautiful birds, bringing tasty meat and healthy eggs. However, it is important to understand that these birds are demanding in terms of maintenance - they need warmth, good lighting and feeding. If you plan to do quail breeding, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the technology of construction and equipment of the room for birds to live with your own hands.
Where to build on the site
For the maintenance of a few livestock, a special room is not required - the cages can be installed both in a private house and in an apartment. For this purpose, suitable garage, chicken coop, summer kitchen. Open-air cages are installed in warm, protected from drafts, corners - and this is quite enough for a comfortable existence of birds.
To get eggs and meat for your own use, you can get around the content of 20 birds - this number will easily fit in one enclosure and provide eggs for a family of 2 adults and 2 children.
We advise you to read about how to make a barn for ducks, chickens and goats with your own hands.
A poultry house will be needed if the population numbers over 100 individuals. In the absence of the possibility of retrofitting any old premises for birds, it will have to be built from scratch. The area should be calculated as follows: 35 square meters. m per 1 thousand heads. 
If you plan to breed birds in the country, it is better to place their home away from residential buildings to protect themselves from smell and noise. You should choose a site that is not in the lowland. You also need to give preference to shaded places that do not fall into the sun.
Did you know? In ancient times, wild quails were used for three purposes: they were hunted, they were turned on as singing birds and used in quail battles, which were a separate type of Central Asian sport. The latter were especially common in Turkestan. Quails fought in specially dug pits, arenas, on the walls of which the spectators sat.Quails feel comfortable in the shade - in the wild, they most often spend time among tall and thick grass. But excessive lighting provokes aggression in birds. In addition, they very badly tolerate heat. The maximum temperature they can withstand without health effects is 30 ° C.
How to make a quail house for quails
Make a simple barn-barn is easy. For the construction, you can use various materials - better, of course, environmental. We offer you to consider the most simple and cheap version of the construction of wood and OSB (oriented strand board).
Alone such a barn can be built during the week. If you work with an assistant, the construction process will be reduced to 2 days. Such a home will cost about 50 thousand rubles.
Necessary materials
For construction you will need:
- foundation blocks;
- timber 150 x 100 mm;
- antiseptic;
- boards 100 x 50 mm;
- ondulin;
- OSB-plates;
- slate;
- window frame;
- doors;
- door knob;
- latch;
- siding;
- nails;
- self-tapping screws;
- metal corners.
Tools for work
From the tools should stock up:
- a saw;
- a hammer;
- screwdriver;
- shovel;
- level.
It will be useful for poultry farmers to read about how to properly feed quails, when there is a period of egg production at quails, how many eggs a quail carries per day, and also how to keep laying quails at home.
Step-by-step instruction
To build a barn, you will need to complete the following steps:
- To clear a building plot - to fill in sand and to level it on hydro level.
- Arrange the base blocks around the perimeter of the future shed.
- From the bars to collect the lower frame.
- Treat it with antiseptic.
- On the frame to lay the floor of the boards.
- Treat the floor with an antiseptic.
- To frame walls, leaving openings and making the framing for the door and window.
- Securely nail them to the floor.
- Make a crate.
- Lay on the crate ondulin.
- Sheathe walls with OSB.
- Install windows and doors.
- Bottom shed sheathed flat slate.
- Roof cover slate.
- Sheathe the facade of the shed siding.
What else to take care
After the construction of the barn you need to take care of the organization of its internal equipment:
- brooders for babies;
- an incubator;
- adult bird cage;
- storage compartment.
It will be necessary to think over warming, heating, additional lighting, equipment by ventilation.
We recommend reading about the best breeds of quails, as well as the most important thing in breeding quails at home.
Lighting
We considered the option of building a barn with one window - it will be enough to illuminate the barn in the 25-35 square meters. m. If you use a room without windows, then you will need to install artificial lighting at the rate of 4 W per 1 sq. m. m. Lighting devices should be located near the troughs and feeders. The place for rest should be left in the shade. 
Not bad, if you can install infrared lamps in the house - they do well with three tasks:
- lighting;
- heating;
- air purification from bacteria.
For good egg production, you should set the duration of daylight at 15-17 hours.
Important! Quails poorly tolerate an excess of light - they begin to peck at each other, carry few eggs, fall into a depressed state, die. Therefore, even the windows in the shed is better to glaze with frosted glass.
Temperature
The room for birds should be warm. Otherwise, the quail will rush badly and hurt. In winter, it is necessary to maintain an optimum temperature not lower than 18 ° C. Therefore, the room must be well insulated and installed in it heaters. 
It is possible to warm a shed by means of polyfoam. However, it will need to be nailed from the outside, because the birds can peck at it, which is unsafe for their health and life.
Warming can also be done with straw, old rags, hay, wood shavings. You can make the birds so warm by reducing the size of the cages - with a more dense housing, the birds will heat each other with their own bodies.
Important! When heating a house with heaters that dry the air, care must be taken to additionally moisturize. him by installing humidifiers or simply buckets of water.Heaters, UV heaters, electric convectors, oil heaters, etc. are suitable for heating. The comfort temperature for the egg production of birds is 18-22 ° C. To monitor the temperature and humidity level in the room you need to hang a thermometer and a hygrometer.
Ventilation
Quails are very sensitive to high humidity, so the barn should be equipped with high-quality ventilation, which would cope well with the removal of excess moisture. It is necessary to take care of the installation of a forced-air, forced system. Humidity should be in the range of 50-70%.
Check out the advantages and disadvantages of keeping chickens together with quails.
The scheme of the simplest ventilation option can be found in the photo: 
Cell requirements
Quails are birds for which floor keeping is not suitable. They are kept in cells. As a rule, cells are installed in several tiers, but not more than 5. In a room with an area of 30 square meters. m placed 12 multi-tiered batteries.
The best material for making cells is wood. Usually, the three walls, the floor and the ceiling are made of wood, and the front of the cage is made of metal mesh. Although the cells can also be galvanized, plastic, plywood, made of stainless steel.
It is advisable to make the floor with a slope of 12 ° to the egg collector so that the eggs roll well into it. The height of the cells should be at least 20 cm. The area should correspond to the calculation: 1 individual per 1 square meter. decimeter. In one cell area of 1 square. m can contain 75 individuals. 
Cells should be equipped in cages, since separate maintenance of females and males is recommended for quails. The egg collector hangs to the edge. Feeders and drinkers are attached to the metal grid.
Did you know? In 1990, the astronauts took quail eggs with them on the flight. In space, they were placed in an incubator, and as a result, 60 light quails appeared. Thus, quails became the first birds born in space.
On the Web, you can find many recommendations for the construction of cells. We give one of the examples: 
Frame (1); drinking bowl (2); door (3); feeding trough (4); tray for assembling eggs (5); gender (6); litter tank (7).
Read more about how to make a feeder, brooder and a cage for quail with your own hands.
So, the content of quails is not such a complicated matter as it may seem at first glance, although more troublesome than breeding chickens. If you create all the necessary conditions for them, using the recommendations of experienced breeders, then problems should not arise.
The main requirements for living birds - house with good ventilation, lighting and heating and warm spacious cages.
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