How to make a pigeon nest?

Pigeon is a general term for hundreds of birds of the family Pigeonidae. Naturally, female and male pigeons build nests, hatch eggs and raise chicks together. After mating, they will go out to look for nesting materials to build nests. Male pigeons with good production performance also have "wife-chasing" behavior. if the female pigeon leaves the nest, the male pigeon will chase the female pigeon home to lay eggs, let's take a look at how the pigeon nest is done!

How to make a pigeon nest?

A simple pigeon nest uses a cardboard box to cut a large round hole at the bottom of the right and put it under the balcony or eaves. A wooden board protrudes from the bottom of the carton for pigeons to fall and take off. If pigeons want to lay eggs, you need to put some straw or cotton in the carton. You can also use a knife to pull out a large oval shape on the carton and dig it bit by bit, which requires a little patience, and then plug the straw layer by layer. Be sure to put the side on the side, but not too full. Finally, press it with a prepared brick. A more complicated pigeon nest can be woven with straw like a bamboo basket.

What kind of food do pigeons eat?

Pigeons are mainly fed with miscellaneous grains, and the most commonly used ones are wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, corn, pea, mung bean, pockmarked seed and peanut. At least two kinds of feed should be mixed when feeding, such as 3 parts of wheat, corn and sorghum, 1 part of pea, 3 parts of wheat, corn and sorghum, 1 part of pea and 1 part of pockmarked seed. In addition to miscellaneous grains, it can also supply green fodder and mineral feed such as cabbage, cabbage and wheat seedlings. Mineral feed such as 3 portions of yellow mud and 3 portions of yellow sand, 2 parts of cooked lime, 1 part of salt, 0.5 parts of shell powder or eggshell powder, 0.5 parts of charcoal, crushed and mixed with water to dry into balls to dry. When fed, the balls are broken and placed in the pigeon house.

How do pigeon eggs hatch?

1. Egg collection: all pigeon eggs laid by all kinds of pigeons should be taken out after 8 o'clock every evening, not too early or too late. When taking eggs, the egg nests must be taken out together, so as not to affect the next round of egg laying. When picking up eggs, record the laying time of breeding pigeons and marks of pigeon eggs, and set up files. After being taken out, pigeon eggs can be hatched directly into the incubator or temporarily stored. The storage temperature of pigeon eggs should not be higher than 100 degrees Celsius, nor lower than 50 degrees Celsius, and the air should be fresh and ventilated.

2. Incubation: using a small incubator, the egg rack for hatching eggs is replaced by the rack for hatching pigeon eggs. For convenience of management, all breeding eggs can be put into the incubator for hatching after 4 days in a row, and then there will be a hatching cycle every 4 days. The incubation temperature was controlled at 38.3-38.8 ℃, which was 0.5-1.0 degrees Celsius higher than that of hatched eggs. The relative humidity of the air is 50% 55%, and the eggs are turned 4 times 6 times a day. Pigeon eggs hatch to the 12th day, take out the egg plate once a day, cool the eggs outside the incubator, lower the temperature to 30 degrees Celsius, and then put them back into the incubator.

3. Illuminated eggs: pigeon eggs will be treated for the first time after 5 days of hatching in each batch, and the purpose is to remove the azoospermic eggs and dead embryo eggs in time. Pigeon eggs were treated for the second time when they were hatched for 10 days and for the third time when they were hatched for 16 days, and the dead eggs were removed in time so as not to affect the hatching effect of smelly eggs. After hatching for 17-18 days, the young pigeons began to come out of their shells.