New techniques for stage-by-stage breeding of meat pigeons with different nutritional requirements

Meat pigeon

1. Feeding management:

(1) breeding pigeons. Breeding pigeons have strong disease resistance and rarely get sick. In addition to the supply of adequate food, water and health sand, the most important thing is the management of parent pigeon hatching and brooding. Parent pigeons can lay 2 eggs at a time, and every other day, a production cycle is 40 days. If you only let them lay eggs without hatching, they can lay 6 eggs per month (3 times). Just laid eggs in about 5 days began to artificially light eggs, eliminate non-sperm eggs; about 13 days, repeat once to prevent the emergence of dead embryo eggs. After picking out the azoospermic or dead embryo eggs, the remaining eggs should be hatched in time.

(2) Pigeon management. After coming out of the shell, the squab was fed alternately by male and female pigeons, and gradually transferred to full pellet feed after 7 days. In order to improve the survival rate of squab and make squab fattening quickly, squab should be carefully managed. If two young pigeons are found to be of different sizes, which may be caused by indigestion, the small pigeons should be fed with 3 pieces of soybean-sized health care sand and half a piece of yeast tablets; for pigeons with diarrhea, each one should be fed with half a piece of oxytetracycline and 1 tablet of dimethicol. In addition, the environment of the pigeon house should be improved, ventilation and exhaust should be done regularly, and colds should be prevented to ensure the healthy growth of squab.

(3) raising young pigeons. Before breeding pigeons are paired, young pigeons are fed twice a day, and it is appropriate to eat net for half an hour each time. Excessive feeding is not only wasteful, but also easy to lead to overweight breeding pigeons and affect pairing. As this period is in the moulting period, the nutrition of breeding pigeons should be strengthened, in addition to adding enough protein in the feed, various vitamins should be added regularly. In addition, young breeding pigeons must be dewormed once before pairing, so as to promote the smooth production of breeding pigeons.

2. Health sand formula:

Health sand can supplement the nutrients and trace elements that pigeons can not get from feed, and is beneficial to pigeon digestion. Recommended formula: medium sand 25%, shell slices (diameter less than 0.8cm) 20%, cooked gypsum 5%, salt 3%, aged lime 5%, charcoal 5%, trace element additive 7%, bone powder (fried) 15%, loess 10%, gentian 1%, licorice 1%, egg essence 1%, peck feather 1%, multivitamins 0.5%, iron oxide 0.5%.

3. Prevention and treatment of diseases

Meat pigeons have strong disease resistance, usually rarely get sick, special environment, easy to be infected with two kinds of diseases:

(1) paratyphoid fever. Prevention: when the climate and environment change, 800000 units of injection green and 3 sticks of streptomycin should be added to the drinking water, mixed with 15 kg of drinking water for 3 days. Treatment: ① was fed with 0.3% tetracycline antibiotics and chloramphenicol (chlortetracycline was the best) for 5-7 days. ② was fed with 0.3% sulfamethazine and the same amount of sodium bicarbonate for 3 days. In addition, furan drugs are also effective in the treatment of this disease, but they are easy to be poisoned and should be used with caution.

(2) paramyxovirus. They were vaccinated against paramyxosis twice a year. The specific approach is: first use Newcastle disease Ⅳ attenuated vaccine to drink water, and then inject 1 ml oil emulsion inactivated vaccine to each pigeon. If there are conditions, the effect is better with pigeon-specific paramyxovirus vaccine. Once the disease occurs, in addition to inoculating antibodies, dead pigeons should be deeply buried and disinfected once a day to completely exterminate the source of the disease.