What do white pigeons like to eat?

White pigeons are docile and humanized. Now more and more people like to keep a white pigeon as a pet at home, and some people like to go to the park to feed white pigeons. Do you know what white pigeons like to eat?

What do white pigeons like to eat?

White pigeons like to eat cereals and beans, such as corn, Dutch beans, mung beans, sorghum, wheat and so on.

Second, how to feed pigeons?

1. Staple food: pigeon feed is mainly miscellaneous grains, more commonly used are wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, corn, peas, mung beans, pockmarked and so on. At least two kinds of feed should be mixed when feeding, such as 3 parts of wheat, corn and sorghum, 1 part of pea, 3 parts of wheat, corn and sorghum during training, 1 part of pea and 1 part of pockmarked seed.

two。 Supplementary food: in addition to miscellaneous grains, it can also supply green fodder and mineral feed such as cabbage, cabbage and wheat seedlings. The ratio of mineral feed is as follows: 3 parts of yellow mud and 3 parts of yellow sand, 2 parts of cooked lime, 1 part of salt, 0.5 part of shell powder or eggshell powder, 0.5 part of charcoal, crushed and mixed with water to dry the ball, which is broken and placed in the pigeon house when fed.

3. Feeding time: feed twice a day, once at about 7am and once at 04:30 in the afternoon, the morning feeding amount accounts for 1x3 of its diet, the afternoon feeding amount accounts for 2x3 of its diet, and the feed amount of each adult pigeon is about 50g per day, which can be increased a little during training. The feed should be fed after the pigeon returns to the pigeon house, so that it can form a conditioned reflex of food to facilitate homing.

4. Pigeon house: pigeon house should be built in a sunny, dry and ventilated place. There are many styles of pigeon house construction, which mainly depends on the number of pigeons you are going to raise and the size of the site to be built. At present, there are also many pigeon houses purchased in the market, if it is not professional large-scale breeding, it will be more appropriate to buy directly.

Pigeons are more hygienic birds, so we need to pay attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of pigeons, and take water baths twice a week in summer and autumn.