The breeding of meat pigeons needs to be taught.

Meat pigeon is a variety formed after long-term breeding, which is rich in nutrition and has high edible and medicinal value. Pigeon meat is an ideal food with high protein and low fat. After testing, squab contains more than 17 kinds of amino acids, more than 10 kinds of trace elements and many vitamins. Meat pigeon has very good medicinal value, its bone, meat can be used in medicine, with regulating heart, nourishing blood, replenishing qi and other functions. The following is to introduce a group of meat pigeon breeding techniques, hoping to help farmers get rich.

? Six-word tips for raising meat pigeons

Control is to control the culture environment. Attention should be paid to keeping warm in autumn and winter, but the smell of ammonia in sealed pigeon houses is very strong, which is not conducive to the healthy growth of meat pigeons. generally, we should prepare the stove to boil vinegar for steaming and fumigation to reduce the smell of ammonia and open windows for ventilation. In the rainy season, pigeon houses should be hygienic to ensure ventilation and dryness, especially the bedding materials under the nest basin should not be affected by moisture. The pigeon house is sprayed with disinfectant and the ground is disinfected with quicklime.

Materials are: to ensure the quality of feed, to achieve scientific ingredients. We should feed more small grains, increase mung beans and shelled wheat, and reduce shelled grains. All kinds of feed should be soaked and softened, dried and then fed, and fed less frequently. Corn, wheat, sorghum and other grains should be added to the feed formula of young pigeons, and there should be enough protein in the feed of pigeons. Breeders generally feed pigeons according to the principle of feeding pigeons and suckling pigeons.

Drink is: the supply of adequate drinking water. The amount of drinking water of meat pigeons varies with the change of environment and temperature, and the amount of drinking water of cage meat pigeons is more than that of flat meat pigeons. Drinking fountains should be clean and hygienic, and water supply should be clean and pollution-free.

Add: add health care sand and cod liver oil. In order to improve the weight and health of meat pigeons, 7-30-day-old meat pigeons were fed with special health sand 2 times a day, 1 pellet of cod liver oil per day. Health sand should be used now. generally, coarse sand, bone powder and shell powder should be mixed first (3-4 days at a time), and then the ingredients with low dosage, easy oxidation and moisture release should be mixed with the prepared health sand before feeding.

Wash namely: give meat pigeon regular bath. Regular bathing can not only prevent the invasion of external parasites of meat pigeons, but also stimulate the secretion of growth hormone and promote growth and development of meat pigeons. The young pigeons raised on the Internet take a bath in the way of a bath, once every 15 days; the pigeons raised in captivity use sprayers to take a bath, usually once every 20 days.

Prevention means: do a good job in disease prevention and treatment. Breeding pigeons imported from outside must undergo strict quarantine and quarantine observation. Try to achieve self-breeding, pigeon farms do not mix other livestock, poultry. Pay attention to cleaning and regular disinfection, and drink disinfectant to meat pigeons every 5 days. Breeders should be in good health, free from infectious diseases and disinfected in the disinfection room before entering the breeding area. At the age of 12-13 days, young pigeons are prone to dyspepsia, pharyngitis and crop accumulation. Prevention begins at the age of 8 days. Half a piece of yeast tablet can be fed every day, and one grain of health care sand in the morning and evening. Young pigeons are fed with half a cold tablet and 6 chlortetracycline tablets 3 times a day for 3 days. If they suffer from ophthalmitis, chloramphenicol or chlortetracycline eye drops can be dropped 2-3 times a day.

? There is a knack for knowing pigeon disease.

Look at the poor mental state of sick pigeons, do not like activities, be alone from the group, eat or not eat, lose weight, loose feathers, eyes, breathing faster, wheezing or making abnormal sounds from the throat and trachea, drinking water or not feeding young pigeons.

Look at pigeons with bird plague, paratyphoid, ophthalmitis, mycosis and vitamin A deficiency, red, inflamed eyes and increased secretions; conjunctival flushing and vasodilation in patients with conjunctivitis; conjunctival cyanosis (purplish blue) when suffering from erysipelas or pneumonia; conjunctival pallor in anemia or malnutrition; pupils dilated and mouth dry in organophosphorus pesticide poisoning.

Look at the nose tumor healthy pigeon nose tumor is bright, white, and clean. Such as nose tumor dirty damp, white decline, dim color, mostly colds, bird plague, paratyphoid and respiratory diseases and so on.

Check the mouth such as mouth, throat flushing, ulcers or yellow-white pseudomembrane, it is pharyngitis, trichomoniasis, thrush or diphtheria pigeon pox; mouth has millet-sized gray nodules, is vitamin A deficiency; when suffering from soft crop disease, the mouth exhales sour and foul-smelling gas.

Check whether the crop has shrunk after 3 hours of feeding. If it is swollen and solid, you may suffer from hard crop disease; if you refuse to eat and the pouch is full, soft and fluctuating, and a large amount of sour liquid comes out of your mouth when you lift it upside down, it may be suspected to be soft crop disease.

When breathing with laryngotracheitis, bronchopneumonia, mycosis and trichomoniasis, sneeze, runny nose, cough and "purr" sound may occur; when suffering from severe necrotizing pneumonia, the sick pigeon breathes with open mouth and exhales foul-smelling gas.

Look at skin pneumonia, nitrite poisoning, bird plague, erysipelas and blood hypoxia, the skin is purple-black. Touch the skin of the chest on the inside of the wings with your hands. High skin temperature is a sign of fever, while low skin temperature is a sign of deficiency cold syndrome or endangered blood gas deficiency.

Touch the abdomen from the end of the sternum to gently massage the abdomen in the direction of the pubic bone, such as constipation, you can touch the granular feces the size of soybeans in the intestine; hepatitis or liver cirrhosis can touch the liver too large or hard; abdominal distension and prolapse, and the hands feel soft and fluctuating, it's peritonitis.

Look at the anus suffering from gastroenteritis, ulcerative enteritis, paratyphoid, around the anus is often defiled by feces, with the hand to open the anus, you can see cloacal congestion or bleeding points.

Look at the feces of healthy pigeons, which are gray-yellow, brown-yellow or gray-black, with white matter attached at the end. When suffering from indigestion or enteritis, meat pigeons discharge rotten soft faeces; when they have fever, constipation or lack of water, they discharge granular faeces; when they suffer from intestinal parasitic diseases, they can discharge fleshy feces; feces with white and red mucus are hemorrhagic enteritis or coccidiosis; black feces may be bleeding in the front part of the stomach or small intestine.

Skills for breeding pigeons to hatch in pairs

Scientific breeding of young pigeons begins to be in estrus at the age of 5-6 months. In order to prevent early mating and breed degradation, female and male pigeons should be raised separately before estrus, that is, females and males should be divided into two groups when meat pigeons grow to 4 months old, and meat pigeons of the same sex should also be raised in small columns, 50-100 in each column, and the breeding density of male pigeons should be smaller.

Timely release of meat pigeons to 6-7 months of age has reached the age of oestrus maturity, pigeons should be released for mating in time. There are two methods of mating: one is natural mating. Let the flocks of pigeons find their own partners, both in pairs. This method is easy to cause inbreeding and degenerate varieties, which is not conducive to obtaining good offspring. The second is the artificial mating method. Breeding pigeons are artificially matched in pairs to mate. Put the male pigeon in the same row or in the same pigeon house before matching. after the male pigeon is caged for 2-3 days, the female pigeon is selected to pair with the male pigeon in the same way.