Egg and meat production
Main article: Quail eggs
Main article: Quails in cookery
As the Japanese quail is easily managed, fast growing, small in size, and can produce eggs at a high rate, it has been farmed in large quantities across the globe. [2][9] Countries such as Japan, India, China, Italy, Russia, and the United States all have established commercial Japanese quail farming industries.[2] Th
e Japanese quail provides developing countries with a stable source of animal proteins and developed countries with a suitable alternative to chicken. However, the quail finds its true economic and commercial value in its egg production, as domesticated lines of the Japanese quail can lay up to 300 eggs a year at a very efficient feed to egg conversion ratio.[2] A feed to egg conversion ratio of 2.62 was accomplished by the 1990s.[16]
Research
Interest in the Japanese quail as a research animal greatly increased after 1957 due to groups at the University of California and Auburn University who proposed its value in biomedical research. Fields in which Coturnix japonica is widely utilized include: genetics, nutrition, physiology , pathology,
embryology, cancer , behavior, and the toxicity of pesticides. [13][14]
Japanese quail eggs have orbited the Earth in several Soviet and Russian spacecraft, including the Bion 5 satellite and the Salyut 6 and Mir space stations. [17] In March 1990, eggs on Mir were successfully incubated and hatched.[18]
See also
List of birds of Japan
Lists of Korean birds
Quails in cookery
References
1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2 . International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r
Hubrecht R, Kirkwood J (2010). The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals . John Wiley & Sons. pp. 655–674.
3. ^ a b c d e f Barilani, M; Deregnaucourt S; Gellego S; Galli L; Mucci N; Piomobo R; Puigcerver M; Rimondi S; Rodriguez-Teijeiro JD; Spano S; Randi E (2005). "Detecting hybridization in wild (Coturnix c. coturnix) and domesticated (Coturnix c. japonica) quail populations". Biological Conservation . 126 (4): 445–455. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2005.06.027 .
4. ^ a b c d e Puigcerver, Manel; Vinyoles, Dolors; Rodríguez-Teijeiro, José Domingo (2007). "Does restocking with Japane
