Breeding and Management techniques of Meat Pigeon during brooding

Because the newborn pigeon is weak, the thermoregulation function is poor, the disease resistance is weak, the ability to adapt to the external environment is not strong, they can not walk and eat, they all rely on the feeding of the parent pigeon to carefully raise their offspring.

In production, there are many problems that can not be taken into account by the parent pigeon, which requires the careful care of the management staff in order to make the squab grow normally. In order to improve the productivity of breeding pigeons, if only one squab or two pigeons die when they come out of their shells, the eggs of the same date and the squab of similar age can be merged to reduce the number of parent pigeons hatching single eggs and feeding single pigeons.

Three or four days after the squab came out of its shell, the eyes of the squab slowly opened, the body feathers grew, and began to walk, and the food intake was increasing day by day, and the digestive function was enhanced, so it was necessary to feed more pigeons. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the amount of nutritional feed for pigeons, for example, the amount of legumes fed is about twice as much as that of non-breeding pigeons. At the same time, the food intake and excretion of squab are also gradually increasing, which is often easy to pollute the nest. More clean linen should be prepared and replaced in time to prevent the disease.

In addition, as the digestive organs of squab are not yet fully developed during this period, if a small number of squab are not fully adapted to the feed fed by their parents, indigestion and crop inflammation often occur, and squab can be fed with stomach-strengthening drugs such as yeast tablets to help digestion.