Quail farming

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[h=1]High profits lure many into quail farming[/h]

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Quail birds at a farm. Most poultry farmers are now replacing chicken with quails or rearing the two birds concurrently as expected huge returns lure many others to join the trade. Photo/Solomon Mbatiah
By Xinhua

Posted Tuesday, January 14 2014 at 12:14
In Summary

• The craze for quail and its eggs is growing fast in the country.
  
• Most poultry farmers are now replacing chicken with quails or rearing the two birds concurrently as expected huge returns lure many others to join the trade.
  
• Quail eggs have found way into Kenyan supermarkets where they are mainly sold to the middle and upper income earners. An egg in a retail outlet is going for an average of Sh70.

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Poultry farmers have found a new way of making huge profits as quail farming has turned into a goldmine due to increase in demand for the bird and its eggs.

Most poultry farmers are now replacing chicken with quails or rearing the two birds concurrently as expected huge returns lure many others to join the trade.

The craze for quail and its eggs is growing fast in the country and can only be compared to a fad for brewed coffee that swept Kenyans some years ago.

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"Quail farming is the in-thing. The market for the birds is growing fast both as a source of meat and chicks for rearing. The eggs are also in great demand," noted poultry farmer George Andanje.

For three years, Mr Andanje has been rearing exotic and indigenous chicken for meat but last month, he added quails to his business.

"I decided to try my hand on quails after realising that they had great potential due to high prices its products fetch," recounted Mr Andanje, who runs his business in Kayole on the east of the capital, Nairobi.

The farmer bought 10 birds from a hatchery in Thika, a district on the outskirts of Nairobi, as he ventured into what he believed was a money-minting scheme.

"I was buying each a week old chick at Sh370, which is a lot of money. The high prices could not allow me to buy as many chicks as I wanted," he noted.

Since then, Mr Andanje has been keeping the birds, which are doing well.

"I am hopeful that soon they will start laying eggs and thereafter hatch them so that my brood increases. I know it will take time but I am in it for long because the profits are rewarding," he said.

Quails start laying eggs after about six weeks and they produce fertile eggs from eight weeks once they begin mating.

"I have read and learned a lot about quails as I prepare to succeed in the business. Once the bird starts laying eggs, it is good to leave the male and female together for a week or so before you take the eggs for incubation," noted Mr Andanje as he displayed his new acquired knowledge on quails.

Found way to supermarkets

Quail eggs have found way into Kenyan supermarkets where they are mainly sold to the middle and upper income earners. An egg in a retail outlet is going for an average of Sh70.

 

[waltham]

Wakenya na biashara ni vichaa.i cant believe someone duped us into this wild bird farming.the thing is a hoax.one minute eggs are selling at 100ksh then drops to 10ksh.a chich sells at 1000ksh then nxt minute noboby wana buy.then eti mayai yatibu magongwa yote chini na juu ya mawingu.sana sana eti wanaume sijui nguvu za nk...........................................

 

[CHASHA FARMING]

Wakenya na biashara ni vichaa.i cant believe someone duped us into this wild bird farming.the thing is a hoax.one minute eggs are selling at 100ksh then drops to 10ksh.a chich sells at 1000ksh then nxt minute noboby wana buy.then eti mayai yatibu magongwa yote chini na juu ya mawingu.sana sana eti wanaume sijui nguvu za nk...........................................

Acha kufanya Marketing ya kijinga hapa, Peleka kwenye jukwaa la Matangazo, Quails Business need permit na kwa Tz permit ni ngumu kupata, Kenya haiwezi kuwa na Tanzania, na huwezi safirisha eggs or chick from Kenya to Tanzania without a permit from Minstry of Tourism and Natural Resources.

 

[waltham]

Acha kufanya Marketing ya kijinga hapa, Peleka kwenye jukwaa la Matangazo, Quails Business need permit na kwa Tz permit ni ngumu kupata, Kenya haiwezi kuwa na Tanzania, na huwezi safirisha eggs or chick from Kenya to Tanzania without a permit from Minstry of Tourism and Natural Resources.

never argue with a fool kwani hamna atakeyetofautisha kichwa maji ninani kama huyu.your given information you add more info what should be done n all you do is go bananas.what are little mind i got here.

 

[bluetooth]

never argue with a fool kwani hamna atakeyetofautisha kichwa maji ninani kama huyu.your given information you add more info what should be done n all you do is go bananas.what are little mind i got here.

Acha upumbafu ..... wakenya ni greed na mnawivu sana, watu wa kipato cha chiini wamepata biashara sasa ni vita ya kibiashara haina ya matajiri wa makampuni ya kuku na. Wakulima was quails

Usipiotoishe jamii

 

[CHASHA FARMING]

never argue with a fool kwani hamna atakeyetofautisha kichwa maji ninani kama huyu.your given information you add more info what should be done n all you do is go bananas.what are little mind i got here.

Mod pelekeni jukwaa ka matangazo yaniashara Cc Invisible

 

[CHASHA FARMING]

Acha upumbafu ..... wakenya ni greed na mnawivu sana, watu wa kipato cha chiini wamepata biashara sasa ni vita ya kibiashara haina ya matajiri wa makampuni ya kuku na. Wakulima was quails

Usipiotoishe jamii

Mkuu hawa wakenya ni wajinga balaa halafu wanatuona Wa Tz kama wajinga fulani, hawa jamaa nawajua sana.

 

[Bosi Michembe]

Hawa kwale wamejaa kibao kwenye pori la UDSM nyuma ya mlimani city ukitembea jioni mitaa ya TIB bank na vodacom utawaona wanadonoadonoa wadudu kwenye bustani ishu ni kuwakamata. Nadhani karibu Tanzania nzima wanapatikana.

 

[waltham]

Hawa kwale wamejaa kibao kwenye pori la UDSM nyuma ya mlimani city ukitembea jioni mitaa ya TIB bank na vodacom utawaona wanadonoadonoa wadudu kwenye bustani ishu ni kuwakamata. Nadhani karibu Tanzania nzima wanapatikana.

thanks bosi.u ca ntell a person trying to pass information of whats happening at your neibas.napenda vichwa maji wengine hata hawasomi liloandamana na ripoti kazi yao ni kutafuta ni mtz au mkenya and then wet their pants when they find its kenyan.its called super inferiority complex deficiency found in the above pple who lives in JF not tz.
what you do bosi is you get a permit from KWS if its in kenya then you buy chicks n voila unanza kufuga kwale.mie sifugi na kama umeona comment zangu hapo juu siwezi kamwe yangu ni kushare whats trending in kenya at the moment.got that bunny heads!