History Of Quail Bird

The reference to quails can be traced back in the old testamentof Bible. Egyptians were known to catch quail for meat. In China, these birds were raised as pets as singing birds. In late eleventh century, quail was brought to Japan from China.
It is known that a Japanese Emperor got cured from tuberculosisafter eating quail meat. Afterwards, Japanese people started raising quail broadly for meat and egg. Since the wild quails were tamed and bred in captivity by Japanese people, the birds came to known as Japanese quail.
In India, quail keeping started in 1974 at Ijatnagar, when Central Avian Research Institute, introduced improved germ plasma of domesticated quail varieties from Japan, and then in 1983 at Tamil Nadu. Thereafter, agricultural Universities of Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal; veterinary colleges as well as animal husbandry department played a vital role in the promotion of quail breeding as a farm enterprise.