Mixed Culture technique of Magpie Mountain Chicken in Orchard

In Heshan, farmers raise magpie pheasants under local fruit trees, mainly under plum trees in May and June. When plums are ripe, they transfer magpie pheasants to apricot trees for stocking, and in September and October, magpie pheasants will be driven to the tea garden. The magpie pheasant can fly and run well and can disinfect fruit and tea trees, so orchards and tea orchards do not need medicine at all, thus ensuring the quality of fruit trees and tea; and orchards and tea gardens provide a good growing environment for magpie pheasants, open environment, sun and rain shelter, and rich natural food. Now, the quality of fruits such as plums and apricots produced through the interbreeding model is much higher than in the past, and the price is also much higher than in the past, and the magpie pheasant is also exported to large and medium-sized cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places, and the market price of eggs is more than 1 yuan each. and broilers can be sold for nearly 50 yuan a kilogram. Now, the stocking of magpie mountain chicken woodland in Songyang County has gradually formed a regular model, with a stock of nearly one million, benefiting thousands of farmers, each with an annual income increase of tens of thousands of yuan.