Choose a cage to raise myna.
The first thing to raise myna is to choose a good cage. There are dome-shaped round cages, flat-topped round cages and dome-shaped square cages. It is best to choose the one with a diameter of about 40 cm and a height. Put a jumping stick, a food bowl, a water bowl, a dung board, a bamboo board for meat and a cage coat in the cage. Usually put the meat on the bamboo board, which is convenient for myna to peck. In winter, cages can be used to keep out the sun and keep the birds warm.
In addition, myna can take a bath every day or every other day in summer, and the cage should be cleaned frequently. Pay attention to cold protection in winter, get more sunshine, and cover the sun with a cage cloth.
Should chickens be fed? Formula rations?
Many citizens follow other people's myna because they see it is beautiful and can talk, but the survival rate of their myna is not high. Mr. Huang said that this is mainly because the original breeder did not master the feeding method of chicks. Young birds are fed tofu or eggs and millet every day, duck eggs can be used in summer, and grasshoppers, earthworms, lean meat, bananas and vegetables can be given the next day.
Chickens are only fed tofu for 7 days, 8? Within 20 days, only 10% tofu is fed, and the rest is fed with millet mixed with eggs, mixed with appropriate amount of water, steamed, ground into small fine materials, and then fed with a small amount of tender vegetables, worms and water. 2 1? Feed 5% tofu, the rest eggs and millet within 70 days, and then feed a small amount of tender vegetables, worms and water. During this period, the egg millet changed from 3: 1 to 1: 1, and the proportion of egg yolk further decreased after 70 days.
Starlings are easy to survive in groups.
For newly bought chicks, nesting is easy to survive. Fluffy chicks can be put in paper boxes with some rags in the middle, fed and placed in nests, and the nests are placed in the dark. Chickens had better be fed together in the nest to keep warm.
The cost of feeding birds is relatively high. How much is the charge? Formula rations? More suitable for people who really love birds. When the chicks grow up to feed themselves, they are fed with boiled eggs, steamed bread, rice, tofu, insects, eels, frogs, beef or lean pork. Fresh Monopterus albus and frogs can be chopped into minced meat and fed three times each time. 5 regiments until the chicks' crops are full. Absorb water with a dropper after feeding, and feed a little water into its mouth every 1? Feed for 2 hours 1 time. In addition to feeding eggs, rice and drinking water, chicks should also supplement some bait such as egg yolk, lean meat and insects. Don't leave without eating or drinking.
When taking birds out in winter, put on a birdcage. Breathe fresh air.
Starlings need fresh air as much as people, so they should hang bird cages in front of the window or breathe fresh air outdoors every morning? 1.5 hours later, take back the room to rest and drink water. At noon, put the birdcage into the basin, the water should not be too deep, and the water surface is about 5cm away from the bottom of the cage, so that it can take a bath. Remove the dung plate at the bottom of the cage before bathing, and then hang the dung plate at the bottom of the cage on the window or open the cage outdoors 1? 1.5 hours and then go back to your room to rest.
Observe the spawning period.
After myna's estrus, the female birds began to build nests. At this time, it is necessary to provide nesting materials such as straw. Female birds lay eggs in every nest? 6 tablets a day, or at intervals of 2? 3 days 1 piece output varies. After laying all the eggs, the female will hatch the eggs and will not leave the nest box except for eating and excreting. The male bird is responsible for protecting the nest. The whole incubation period is 15? 18 days; After more than 18 days, the female will refuse to hatch, behave uneasily, fly in and out, and keep singing.
Myna brooding is an interesting phenomenon. In the first half month, females usually feed their chicks with pecked bread, and after half a month, males feed them. The chicken's staple food is breadworms and other insects containing calcium and other corresponding minerals. At this time, birdman must provide fresh breadworms to myna in time. The chicks can leave the nest after about 26 days of growth, and after about 1 month, the chicks can start to leave their father and train myna to speak.
I.8. Brother's choice.
1. The myna who is going to teach should choose the young bird with full feathers, and the old bird is generally not taught because of its slow response.
2. domestication 8. Brother should choose varieties with topaz mouth, orange feet and smooth and shiny feathers.
3. The mouth is big, the tongue is fleshy, soft, short and round.
4. It has the characteristics of meekness, tameness and not shyness.
2. Preparation before teaching.
Before teaching, let bugs live in cages or shelves, not frightened, not tamed, and willing to be close to people. Eight. Brother should be able to tame a person's hand, touch his head or front back, let go of his anklet and not fly away. At this level, brother's teaching effect is the best.
3. Twist your tongue.
I need to twist my tongue before I can teach human languages. Twisting the tongue is to cut the bird's tongue into a circle with scissors. The best way to operate is for two people to cooperate. One person gently holds the bird's body with his hand, the other person holds the bird's head forward from the neck with his left hand, and the left index finger and thumb are inserted from both sides of the bird's mouth to open the bird's mouth. After the mouth is opened, stick some incense ashes (mosquito-repellent incense ashes and cigarette ashes) on the index finger of the right hand, so that the incense ashes wrap the bird's tongue, and then twist two fingers left and right. With the intensity from light to heavy, the tongue end will take off a layer of tongue shell and there will be slight bleeding. This is a normal phenomenon. Put some purple liquid on it and put it back in the cage. Steamed corn with egg yolk can be used as feed. After an interval of half a month, the above method is used for the second rubbing, but this time only a thin and incomplete film can be rubbed out. After another half month's rest, we can talk about teaching.
4. Training methods.
1. Training myna to learn words must start with young birds. Every time the young birds come out of the cage 15 minutes or so, put some foods that the young birds like to eat around the cage, so that they can be trained repeatedly (the climate is cool in the morning and evening in summer, and it should be noon in winter, but the climate in the north is cold and the winter is difficult, so that the young birds can enjoy the food reflection conditions when they come out of the cage or enter the cage. When chicks learn to fly, the time reflex conditions are basically consolidated at this stage, and the training is more than half successful. In the future, every time you fly out of the cage, you should pay attention to reducing the vibration. Don't be locked in the cage for a long time, which will affect reflection and consolidate the results. After successful training, don't forget to put some insects in the cage as a reward.
2. Time. Morning is the best, because birds are most active in the morning, when birds are not full, and the teaching effect is good.
3. Environment. Be quiet, no noise and conversation, otherwise it will easily distract the birds and let them learn the sounds they shouldn't learn. So it's best to choose to teach in a quiet room.
4. content. Choose a simple abbreviation at the beginning, such as? Hello? 、? Are you welcome? 、? Goodbye? 、? Bye. 、? Thank you? Wait a minute. Pay attention to accurate, clear and slow pronunciation. Don't use dialects. It's better to use Mandarin. Repeat the same words every day and consolidate after learning. If you play it with a tape recorder, the effect will be better and it will be more labor-saving. Generally, birds can learn by teaching 1 week or so. You can consolidate the theory for a few days and then teach the second sentence. If birds are more sensitive, they can also be taught simple songs. During teaching, birds should not be allowed to hear boring or inappropriate sentences. Birds' learning language is particularly sensitive in a short time, and it is easy to imitate all kinds of external sounds at this time. Once this sensitive period is discovered, we should seize it in time and make good use of it.