Causes and control methods of pigeon feather pecking

Pigeons often peck feathers in breeding, pecking feathers is a normal phenomenon of birds, but often pecking or pecking feathers from each other, resulting in a large number of pigeon feathers falling off, seriously affecting the production of pigeons. So what causes pigeons to peck feathers? What should I do? Let's take a look at the detailed introduction.

1. Lack of nutrition

The main cause of pigeon feather pecking phenomenon is nutritional factors, pigeon body protein, amino acid imbalance will lead to feather pecking, in addition to lack of vitamins, calcium, iron, zinc and other trace elements will also lead to feather pecking. Electrolyte imbalance, copper content is too high, affecting the metabolism of pigeons, will also cause pecking feathers.

Prevention and control methods: for the problem of nutritional deficiency, nutrition management should be strengthened at ordinary times, reasonable proportion of feed should be matched, so that the nutrition supply is balanced, and the pecking feather caused by nutritional deficiency can be solved by feeding feather pecking spirit and multi-dimensional electrolytes.

2. Disease parasites

Pigeon breeding due to environmental factors, so that pigeons infected with mold or other infectious diseases, they will affect the absorption of nutrients pigeons, especially digestive tract diseases, nutrient absorption blocked, pigeon feather growth is affected, pigeons will peck feathers. In addition, pigeons infected with mites or ectoparasites, surface itching, will make its continuous pecking feathers, to achieve the purpose of itching.

Prevention and control methods: strengthen the management of the breeding environment, make the cage clean and clean, regularly disinfect and sterilize, cause the phenomenon of pecking feathers due to diseases and parasites, first distinguish the disease, then prescribe the right medicine, treat well, parasites can be sprayed and smeared with pigeon mite.

3. Feeding density is too high

Feeding density is large, not only will make pigeons grow slowly, not conducive to feed conversion, but also easy to infect diseases, so that the mortality rate of pigeons is high, as well as weeds pigeons and corn growth poor situation, pigeons will occur when eating, grab drinking phenomenon, cause pecking feathers.

Control methods: reasonable breeding density, when promoting the healthy growth of pigeons premise, generally in addition to winter, the rest of the time should not increase the breeding density of pigeons, and the increase in breeding density, the corresponding feed and drinking water should also increase, otherwise it is easy to cause pecking phenomenon.

4. Poor lighting and ventilation

When the light is strong, pigeons will be extremely excited, resulting in mutual pecking phenomenon, on the contrary, poor ventilation, increased carbon dioxide and toxic gases, resulting in pigeon irritability, feed intake decreased, resulting in their own nutritional deficiencies, resulting in pecking feathers.

Prevention and control methods: breeding pigeons need appropriate light, but should not be in strong light, and control in a relatively dark environment to raise, strengthen ventilation, so as not to pigeon irritability.

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