Preparation and Planning of Quail Farming

Business plan is a series of events before the production process, which aims to make it more regularly in running this business including preproduction, production and marketing.

1. Types of businesses The type of quail farm is a business segment of the overall business cycle, such as quail breeding, the efforts of quail egg production and meat or both.
a. Quail breeding. Business to incubate quail eggs into chicks with the sale of quail breeds ranging from DOQ (day of quail), age 1 week until grower level.
b. Layer Quail. Part of this business could be done by quail breeder farmers because it is quite practical. DOQ that is chosen is a type of quail that has a high egg productivity, such as Japonica ( Japanese quail ) that can spawn when aged 40 days up to one year.
c. Broiler Quail. This business has not been developed specifically, because it's just utilizing the layer quail which has dropped the production of eggs.

2. Main target of the quail business
In running this business, preferably business target must exist and must be. the target is an achievement that can be earned per unit of time.
a. DOQ production. the target bisnis is quail chicks. For example DOQ will be generated as much as 134.400 tail of 1,000 female quail.
b. Egg production. Its production target in the form of quail eggs. For example, the eggs will be produced as many as 270,000 eggs per year of 1000 female quail.
c. Meat production. Its business Target in the form of meat. Because based on cast-offs from the female quail, with a population of 1000 quails will produce 700 broiler quail per year.

Determination of production target in units of time needs to be implemented because it is associated with some of the following:
- To determine or estimate the needs of the means of production.
- The determination of the needs of the workforce.
- counting of funds needs during the production process within a specified time period. - to estimate the time, place and means of distribution of the products in a certain period of time.

3. Business system
Quail farm business system can be applied by owner in various forms. common technologies for quail farm can be done in half-intensive or intensive. Quail farming businesses that use cage postal with a population so low is very rare. Important things to note in the operations are make a good cage, graze, drink and drugs as well as cleaning the cage from quail feces every day.
The characteristic of semi-intensive/ intensive cultivation , such as:
- can take advantage of limited space production.
- using more modern technology, providing the feed and drink as needed, using the heating and also maximize the quail density per unit enclosure.
- utilize parent quail qualified
- attention to cleanliness quail cage and maintain healthy chicks well.
- use battery cages with the preparation of layered or cage litter with the ideal population. - business nurseries uses hatching machine.
- high business capital needs.
- amount of output production is relatively high .
- shorter production time, productivity and growth number egg fairly high