Partridge Farm

    Written by: Mir Aqa Etebar

Before some Afghans were keeping quails, chickens, and ostriches and recently they are raising partridges in farms too.

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked about the making of partridge farm to Qais Barakzai, the owner of the partridge farm in Kabul city.

Barakzai says: “the partridge farm we have built is 9 meters long and 3 meters wide.  The height of the farm reaches to 3 meters. The walls of the room are made from mud and earth bricks. We have paved the surface of the room and as the partridges like to play in the soil, we have spread pebble instead of the soil because the soil might cause some diseases to them. We have built room in a place that the sun rays could easily enter into the room to prevent various diseases. We keep partridge in metal cages and we keep 4 female with one male partridge in each cage.

At the beginning, we bought the partridge’s eggs from the bazaar but when we raised partridges, we collect the eggs inside the farm. We put the eggs for 25 days in the partridge eggs incubator, and after 25 days, the eggs hatch. We keep 50-60 chicken in one special cage and we keep them warm. The feed of chickens is different from the partridges. After the selling of the chickens, we clean the room and cages and replace the sand too. We apply vaccine on time to the chickens and partridges on time.

If we calculate, the partridge eat 30% fewer feeds than the chicken and each chicken could hardly be sold for 300 Afghanis but the price of each partridge is 1000-10000 Afghanis.