How old are the young pigeons? how to change their feathers and how to raise them?

Pigeon is a kind of common bird in life, it has high edible value, so it is deeply loved by consumers. Young pigeon refers to the newly born pigeon, this kind of pigeon is different from the adult pigeon in the process of breeding, so what are the specific operation steps? Next, let's learn about it together.

How old is the young pigeon to change its feathers?

Young pigeons generally start to change the first main feather from the inside to the outside at the age of about 50 days, and then change one every 15 days or so, and all feathers can be changed at the age of 6-7 months.

How to raise young pigeons

1. Adequate nutrition: first, newborn pigeons cannot walk and feed, but rely entirely on their parents to feed; second, they grow and develop rapidly and gain weight quickly. To this end, parent pigeons must be given nutritious feed, especially to increase protein feed, and to increase the number of feeding times.

2. The temperature should be suitable: newborn squab has short feathers and poor ability to keep out the cold. In cold winter, heat preservation should be done well, and heat preservation facilities should be added when the house temperature is lower than 6 ℃. In hot summer season, heat prevention should be done when the house temperature is higher than 26 ℃.

3. Change the position of squab: in order to avoid a litter of squab, one big and one small, the difference in ontogeny is great, it is necessary to change the position and take balanced care. The specific method is to change the position of two squab in the same litter every 2-3 days before the 6-7-day-old squab will stand, so as to get the balanced care of the breeding pigeon.

4. merging squab: only one squab in a litter or only one of a pair of squab who died midway can be merged into one or two nests of the same or similar age. In this way, the phenomenon of crop accumulation caused by the fact that only one squab is often overfed by the parent pigeon can be avoided. When you just merge the nest, you should pay attention to observe whether the parent pigeon refuses to feed and peck the newly merged squab.

Preparation of feeding feed for young pigeons

1. When the squab is 1-3 days old, it can be fed with fresh sterilized milk, glucose, vitamin B10 water and digestive enzymes.

2, 4-6 days old, can use fresh milk or milk powder, add cooked egg yolk, glucose, a variety of vitamins and digestive enzymes, etc., prepared into a full thick feed.

3. At the age of 7-10 days, rice flour, glucose, milk powder, flour, peas, protein digestive enzymes and yeast slices can be added to the porridge to make semi-dense liquid feeding.

4. At the age of 11-14 days, they were fed with rice porridge, soybean powder, glucose, oatmeal, milk powder and yeast tablets.

5. Corn, sorghum, wheat, peas, mung beans and broad beans can be ground and fed with milk powder and yeast slices at the age of 15-20 days.

6. At the age of 20-30 days, the larger granules of the above raw materials can be used and then fed in a slurry form with boiling water.

After 7 or 30 days of age, pigeons can slowly peck at raw materials such as corn, sorghum and peas. After 1-3 days, pigeons will feed according to their own needs.

Pigeon Disease and its Prevention

First, pigeon plague is a common disease of pigeons, which is caused by pigeon Ⅰ type myxovirus. the death rate of the disease is high, reflecting neurological symptoms, shaking the head, and often diarrhea. Medication is ineffective.

Second, autopsy: there are bleeding spots in glandular stomach, intestinal mucosal hemorrhage and encephalitis.

3. Precautions:

1. Spray disinfection with 0.3% peracetic acid with pigeons, 0.5% peracetic acid shed and condition disinfection. Iodine type disinfectant can also be used.

2. Use pigeon Ⅰ type Fumyxovirus inactivated vaccine to prevent injection, chest muscle injection, injection should be slow rather than fast, each injection 0.5ml, as usual in squab 30 days later, first healthy pigeon followed by sick pigeon. Once the diagnosis of pigeon plague, especially reflecting the neurological symptoms of sick pigeons, invent one to cull one. Pigeon Ⅰ type FMV inactivated vaccine usually produces immunity 15 days after injection, and the immunity period is 6 months.

The flexing of young pigeons usually begins in nearly two months, and all the changes are finished in half a year. Be sure to pay attention to temperature and nutrition when raising young pigeons. Feed ratio is also very important, different age groups of feeding food is also fastidious, in the above detailed introduction, I hope it can be helpful to everyone.