1. Pigeons feed mainly on miscellaneous grains, such as wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, corn, peas, mung beans, pockmarked seeds and peanuts. At least two kinds of feed should be mixed when feeding, such as wheat, corn, sorghum ***3, pea 1, and wheat, corn, sorghum ***3, pea 1 and pockmarked 1 during training.
2. Besides miscellaneous grains, we can also supply green feed and mineral feed such as vegetables, cabbage and wheat seedlings. Mineral feed can be bought from carrier pigeon associations all over the country. It can also be matched by itself, which generally meets the needs of homing pigeons. The mineral feed is made of, for example, 3 parts of yellow mud and yellow sand, 2 parts of hydrated lime, 65,438+0 parts of salt, 0.5 part of shell powder or eggshell powder and 0.5 part of charcoal. After crushing, they are mixed with water, kneaded into balls and dried. When feeding, break the ball and put it in the pigeon house.
3. Feed twice a day, at about 7: 00 in the morning and at about 4: 30 in the afternoon 1 time. The feeding amount in the morning accounts for 1/3 of its diet, and the feeding amount in the afternoon accounts for 2/3 of its diet. The daily feeding amount of each adult pigeon is about 50g, which can be appropriately increased during training. Pigeons can be called back to their homes and fed after being grounded, so that they can form a conditioned reflex to return to their homes for dinner, which is conducive to homing.
Pigeons should be fed more corn and peas, first water, then water. You can feed glucose water first, then light salt water. In summer and during the incubation period of young pigeons, appropriate amount of salt can be added to drinking water.
Pigeons are very clean birds, so we must pay great attention to the cleanliness of the pigeon house. We should take a bath at least twice a week in summer and autumn and once a week in winter.
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Pigeons live on plant food. Corn, rice, wheat and sorghum in cereals, peas, mung beans, broad beans and miscellaneous beans in beans are all good feeds. Cereals can account for 2/3 and beans for 1/3. During the feeding period, the content of protein in feed can account for about 65,438+08% for breeding pigeons and 65,438+05% for young pigeons, and sand, salt, minerals and multivitamins are properly mixed. It is best to feed pigeons with fully mixed pellet feed.
Meat pigeons are large in size and consume a lot of feed; Carrier pigeons and ornamental pigeons consume less substances than meat pigeons 1/3 or so. According to its weight110, the daily feed consumption can be roughly calculated. In addition, a pigeon needs to drink about 30 ~ 60 ml of water every day. Artificial incubation and feeding young pigeons with synthetic pigeon milk can improve the reproductive rate of breeding pigeons.
The building of the pigeon house should be well lit and kept dry, and at the same time, attention should be paid to preventing the infringement of cats, snakes and rats. The pigeon house covers an area of 8 ~ 10 square meter and can support 20 ~ 40 pairs. Each pair of breeding pigeons needs two nesting boxes to be used alternately in laying eggs, hatching and brooding. 10 ~ 20m2 can feed 50 ~ 100 pairs of squabs aged 0 ~ 5 months. The main equipment in the house is a separate square habitat box, so that you can live in your own home and prevent each other from fighting. Nowadays, commercial pigeons are raised in three or four stacked cages, one to one, which is convenient for management and can improve the reproductive rate and weight gain speed of pigeons.
References:
Pigeon Baidu encyclopedia