How to raise pigeons? How much money can you earn a year by raising a couple?

Pigeon has high nutritional value. It is not only a valuable delicacy, but also an advanced nourishing product. It is known as "one pigeon wins nine chickens". There are many people who eat it and many people who breed it. So, how can we raise pigeons well? How much money can you earn a year by raising a couple?

First, how to raise pigeons well?

1. Build a pigeon house

To raise pigeons, we must first build a pigeon house, which can be built in a sunny, ventilated, natural enemy-free place, rain-proof, moisture-proof, and the surrounding environment should not be noisy. To ensure a suitable temperature and humidity, the temperature should be controlled between 14 ℃ and 19 ℃, and the humidity should be controlled at about 60%, so as to keep the pigeon house warm in winter and cool in summer.

2. Place pigeon cages

Pigeons are highly competitive birds. If all pigeons are locked together, there will be competition for land, which will reduce the survival rate of pigeons, so it is necessary to place pigeon cages, each cage can raise a pair of pigeons; the pigeon cage is almost a 55cm cube, about 45cm from the ground, depending on the situation.

3. Eating food

Pigeons are mainly fed with miscellaneous grains, such as wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, corn, peas, mung beans, pockmarked seeds, peanuts, etc., as well as green and mineral feeds such as cabbage, cabbage and wheat seedlings. The pigeons are fed twice a day, once at about 7 o'clock in the morning, accounting for 1x3 of their diets, and about 04:30 in the afternoon, accounting for 23% of their diets. The pigeons should be fed regularly at a fixed point, and the pigeons should be fed after they return to the pigeon house, so that they can form a conditioned reflex.

4. Cleaning and disinfection

Pigeons are very clean birds, at least twice a week in summer and autumn and once a week in winter; we must pay great attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of pigeon houses and often clean them. If pigeons are dirty, pigeons will not go in; pay attention to the hygiene and disinfection of pigeons, vaccinate them, and isolate them as soon as possible to avoid infection.

Second, how much money can you earn a year by raising a pair of pigeons?

Each pair of breeding pigeons can produce 812 pairs of squab per year, and squab can be sold only after feeding for 25 to 30 days, and the average breeding age of pigeons is 6 years (5 whole years). However, the life span and breeding years of male pigeons are longer than that of female pigeons. if male pigeons mate with young female pigeons, they can continue to breed for 3 years or more.

Li Yinliang, head of the Hongyi pigeon industry professional cooperative in Panji Village, Lixindian Town, Queshan County, said that each pair of pigeons earns 80 to 100 yuan a year. At the Shuli Meat Pigeon breeding Professional Cooperative in Yulin Township, Mingshui County, Chairman Ma Shuli calculated that a pair of breeding pigeons were purchased at a price of 200 yuan, and two young pigeons were hatched in a month, which could be sold after a month of growth. excluding all the costs of feed, epidemic prevention medicine, labor and so on, the profit is 20 yuan. If you breed 10 pairs, it is 200 yuan, and the annual net profit is 2000 yuan.

The above is the method of raising pigeons and the annual benefits of raising a pair of pigeons. I hope it will be useful to you.