Feeding and management of cultured thrush during moulting period

Feeding and management of the moulting period of thrushes: like birds in nature, thrushes molt once a year (individual molting can be changed twice), mostly in August-October of the lunar calendar (and a few are advanced and postponed). It will end in about 100 days. Most of the molting of the thrush has a certain regularity, generally first from the head, wing, tail molting, and then to the whole body; also from the tail feather, wing feather, and then to the back feather and ventral feather. Some due to the unscientific proportion of food, poor protein and vitamins and improper management, will cause the order to reverse or stop molting, or replaced with scorched hair, flower hair and so on. During the moulting period, the nursing work of the bird should be very careful, because the moulting period of the bird needs to consume a lot of nutrition to grow new feathers, most of the birds are poor, at the same time, the pores of the whole body are loose, and it is easy to be invaded by wind-cold or germs and cause various diseases. During the moulting period, thrushes should first pay attention to the scientific preparation of bird feed, and increase the nutrition of birds, especially the amount of protein. Eggs and soybean powder can be appropriately increased, as well as improve the nutritional composition of the diet.

Oily feed can be reduced, such as peanuts, walnuts, introduction (perilla), meat powder and other proportion can not be too much, so as not to affect the shedding of the feather. Secondly, during the feathering period, we should keep the thrush in a relaxed environment and absolutely avoid fighting birds. Because during this period, the eyebrow body is mostly weak, at the same time the bird is molting, the whole body has grown a lot of small feathers, and there are more blood cells, such as fighting or being frightened, the bird will swoop in the cage, thus greatly affecting the growth quality of hairiness, and some may even cause scorched shredded or twisted hair and so on. Finally, nursing care should be strengthened. During this period, bird walking activities can be stopped, the dynamics of the birds should be observed at any time, and if there are any abnormalities, the symptoms should be dealt with in time. At night, the thrush should be carried back to the house for the night, and put down the cage clothes, pay attention to keep warm and so on. During the molting period of the thrush, the number of times for the thrush to take a bath can be reduced, preferably once a week. Moreover, it is not appropriate to hang thrushes outside the house all day, so as not to affect the birds' proper rest and sleep. Most of the molting of thrushes can be completed in about 2 months from the beginning to the end of molting. if the white skin tip of the bird is rarely seen at the bottom of the cage, it should be explained that the molting is basically over. At this time, birds can be allowed to carry out normal outdoor activities or to arrange shelves and hang songs.

In addition, wild thrushes that live in nature molt relatively early, and most of them are fully molted by the end of autumn. However, the molting of caged thrush birds is relatively late, and most of them cannot be molted until before and after the Beginning of Winter or Lesser Snow. Of course, some of them are changed later, which may be due to excessive nutrition caused by food. After the replacement of the hairiness of the thrush is all over, if it is found that the tail feathers and wing feathers are broken or the white hair is not ideal, the thrush can be caught out of the cage at night and the unideal hairiness can be removed and replaced. If the feathers can not be changed slowly, you can use the herbal medicine red hemp to simmer water for the birds to take to promote their rapid shedding. Some breeders believe that the more exuberant the thrush is, the faster it molts, and the more affectionate the thrush is, the slower it will molt, so even if the bird is in the moulting stage, we should try to maintain the exuberance of the bird.