You can tell the male and female after one month of breeding. After one month, the male starts to have partially colored hair, while the female has always been the same color. The brooding temperature should gradually decrease with age. From 1 to 3 days old, the temperature is 35°C to 34°C, and from 4 to 10 days old, the temperature decreases by 0.5°C every day.

From 11 to 28 days old, the temperature drops to 28°C. Provide light day and night from 1 to 3 days old, with one 25W bulb per 7 square meters until 30 days old. However, the exposure should be gradually reduced, and natural light can be used in the future. The stocking density is 50-60 animals per square meter from 1 to 10 days old, and 20 animals from 11 to 30 days old, and will be adjusted as the age increases.

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Key points of chick feeding and management:

Boil water and start eating at the right time. Pheasant chicks should start eating within 24 hours after hatching. Drink water first. It is best to add 5% glucose or 0.1% potassium permanganate to the drinking water. Start eating 2 hours after boiling the water. The feed should be nutritious, easy to digest, highly palatable and easy to eat. Chicks that cannot drink water and eat should be trained more.

In the first few days of brooding, feeding should be small and frequent to prevent overeating and overeating, which may cause indigestion. Feed 6 times a day for 0 to 2 weeks, 5 times a day for 3 to 4 weeks, and 5 times a day for 5 weeks. From now on, feed 4 times a day. As the age increases, the feed intake increases gradually. When it approaches the adult weight, the feed intake tends to be stable.

The appropriate brooding temperature for temperature and humidity control is 34-35°C for 1-3 days old, 32-33°C for 4-7 days old, 28-31°C for 2 weeks old, and 24-27°C for 3 weeks old. ℃, 4 weeks of age 22 ~ 23 ℃, after 5 weeks of age can be dewarmed. The general principle of warming is that the temperature is higher at night than during the day, and in small groups it is higher than in large groups. Specifically, we should "watch the chickens and apply warmth", that is, apply the correct temperature according to the mental state of the chicks.

When the temperature is suitable, pheasants have a better appetite, drink moderate amounts of water, are lively and active, and spread out evenly during sleep; when the temperature is too high, pheasants stay away from heat sources, breathe with their mouths open, and drink more water. Large, poor appetite, and sometimes loose stools are seen; when the temperature is too low, pheasants move slowly, close to the heat source, and sometimes can be seen stacked in layers and squeezing each other. The temperature should be prevented from rising and falling during the entire brooding period.

The relative humidity is required to be high in the early stage, mainly to prevent dehydration of young pheasants, and lower in the later stage, mainly to prevent the occurrence of coccidiosis and other diseases, 65% to 70% at 1 to 10 days old, 11 55% to 65% after age.