Technical points of Pigeon Culture in greenhouse for Daily Management and Disease Prevention and Control

Pigeon culture in greenhouse

1. Feed preparation: pigeons are picky about food. For diets mixed with various kinds of feed, the eating order is as follows: mung bean, →, pea, →, wheat, →, corn, →, soybean, →, rice, →, sorghum and so on. Therefore, it is best to mix them into pellets to avoid malnutrition caused by picky food. At the same time, some ingredients of feed should be increased or decreased according to the production cycle and seasonal changes. Summer is hot, add mung beans to clear heat and reduce fire. Cold winter, increase hemp kernel, improve feed energy value. During the molting period, rapeseed was added to shorten the molting time. When preparing feed, attention should be paid to the balance of animal proteins, especially essential amino acids. Animal protein is very important for egg production, fertilization rate, hatching rate and 28-day-old pigeons.

2. Feeding method: three times a day, fixed time and quantity. Feeding time, 7:30 in the morning, 2:00 in the afternoon, 6:00 in the evening. The feeding amount is about 40 grams per pair of pigeons during the non-feeding period. During the feeding period, it is best to keep feeding, such as not feeding grains, before feeding, soak the feed in warm water (about 40 ℃) for half an hour, dry and then feed, which is beneficial to the digestion of squab.

3. Preparation and delivery of health sand: the quality and feed intake of health sand directly affect the growth, development and reproduction of pigeons. During the breeding period, health sand formula (%): River sand 35, yellow mud 20, shell powder 15, salt 5, lime 2, poultry multi-dimensional 2, gentian 0.5, gypsum powder 2, eggshell powder 2, bone meal 2, charcoal powder 6, fish meal 5, licorice 1, auxin 1.5, oxytetracycline calcium salt 0.6, yeast slice 0.4. Pigeons like to eat fresh and dry health care sand, so it is best to put it once a day.

Daily management and disease control of pigeons:

1. Daily management should look at four aspects: look at mental state, healthy pigeons are lively, excited and sensitive. Depending on the diet, healthy pigeons eat faster and generally drink water after eating. Look at the color and shape of feces, normal pigeon feces are gray, yellow-brown or gray-black, shaped into strips or spirals, with white uric acid attached to the end. Look at the nursing care of pigeons, and observe whether pigeons are trampled, pressed, lost, harmed by rats, etc., to ensure the safe and healthy growth of pigeons.

2. Management during the incubation period when breeding pigeons hatch, some male and female pigeons often fight for hatching, thus trampling on the eggs, while some breeding pigeons linger after they come out to eat, thus affecting embryonic development and causing embryo death. The former should be re-paired and the nest eggs should be hatched by nanny pigeons. In the latter case, the pigeon should be driven back to the nest in time, and its light should be dimmed. After 3 to 5 days, this phenomenon can be avoided. Breeding eggs are easy to be soiled by feces in the process of hatching, so check them frequently. If there is fecal contamination, gently wipe them with towels soaked in warm water, which can obviously improve the hatching rate and avoid washing them with water, otherwise it is disadvantageous to embryo development and even causes embryo death. The incubation period of the king pigeon is 18 days. during the whole incubation period, the eggs should be treated twice, and the first time is the fifth day after hatching. the main purpose is to remove the azoospermic eggs and see through the light of the pigeon eggs. if the eggs are yellow and bright, like those without hatching, they are azoospermic eggs. For the second time, the eggs were hatched on the 12th day, the embryo development was checked and the dead embryos were picked out. The development of some embryos is not strong enough, although the shell has been broken, but unable to shell on its own, at this time, the need for artificial midwifery, that is, the needle along the pecking hole along the egg parallel to expand it, when it matured to shell itself. If the blood vessels have not completely contracted, the blood vessels can not be broken by force, otherwise, they will bleed to death. Through artificial midwifery, pigeons can generally come out of their shells safely, which can improve the hatching rate.

3. Nursing period management: individual newborn pigeons that do not know how to feed squab should be trained, that is, the mouth of squab should be carefully inserted into the mouth of parent pigeon. After repeated many times, parent pigeon will generally be nursed or nursed by nanny pigeon to ensure the survival of pigeon. Change the position of squab: when some parent pigeons are breast-feeding, they always feed one outside the nest, resulting in the uneven development of two squab, and the overfed one has accumulated food in the crop and indigestion. Therefore, it is necessary to often change the position of two squab to make them grow evenly so as to improve the quality of squab. For the nest with only one egg or one squab, the two nests should be merged or three-in-one according to their recent age, so as to reduce the burden of breeding pigeons, make them lay eggs ahead of time, and improve the production efficiency of breeding pigeons.