Turtledove breeding

1. Spawning: Wild birds generally mate and lay eggs in spring and autumn. Artificial breeding can be adopted to female artificial injection of estrogen method, promote its short-term estrus, can make monthly eggs.

2. Incubation: Collect the postpartum eggs and put them into the incubator for artificial incubation. Temperature and relative humidity should be adjusted during incubation. Ensure that the hatching rate is above 98%(turtledoves rarely have unfertilized eggs).

3, nestling management: nestling just hatched should pay attention to keep warm, timely let nestling drinking water, choose the concentration of potassium permanganate solution as drinking water, change every 4 hours. After hatchling, generally 6 to 8 hours have foraging behavior, food is best selected millet or broken rice and other small, digestible food, can also be used to feed chicks pellet feed. After one week, 20% of other plant seeds such as barnyard millet seeds and rice seeds can be added to the feed ratio, and after two weeks, various plant seeds such as barnyard millet seeds and rice seeds can be fed. Due to the high density of artificial culture and easy infection of diseases, sanitation in the cage should be done well, regular disinfection, timely cleaning of feces, and regular epidemic prevention. Sick birds should be isolated for treatment, dead birds should be buried or burned, and all birds in the cage should be disinfected. Turtledove growth period is very short, generally 4 to 5 weeks old can grow into birds for sale, 4 months after sexual maturity.