1, rice

This is the most common food and it is very easy for us to cook it. We just need to give them some leftover rice that we eat every day.

2. Corn kernels

Pigeons actually eat corn kernels, which is their favorite food, because corn kernels are a little sweet, or they also like dried corn kernels.

Step 3: peanuts

Another one is peanuts, which is also our own snack. We peel some peanuts and crush them into peanuts, so that pigeons can eat them more conveniently, otherwise the peanuts are too big for them.

4, pigeon food

If we don't want to feed them with our leftovers, we can also buy pigeon food, which is specially made for pigeons, just like feed, so it is more convenient to feed them.

5. Xiaomi

Another is Xiaomi. Pigeons and chickens like to eat millet very much. We can pour millet into our hands and feed them, and you will find them very happy.

Feeding mode:

1. Pigeons are mainly fed with miscellaneous grains, such as wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, corn, peas, mung beans, pockmarked seeds and peanuts. At least two kinds of feed should be mixed when feeding, such as wheat, corn, sorghum ***3, pea 1, and wheat, corn, sorghum ***3, pea 1 and pockmarked 1 during training.

2. Besides miscellaneous grains, we can also supply green feed and mineral feed such as vegetables, cabbage and wheat seedlings. Mineral feed can be bought from carrier pigeon associations all over the country. It can also be matched by itself, which generally meets the needs of homing pigeons. The mineral feed is made of, for example, 3 parts of yellow mud and yellow sand, 2 parts of hydrated lime, 65,438+0 parts of salt, 0.5 part of shell powder or eggshell powder and 0.5 part of charcoal. After crushing, they are mixed with water, kneaded into balls and dried. When feeding, break the ball and put it in the pigeon house.

3. Feed twice a day, once at around 7: 00 in the morning and at around 4: 30 in the afternoon 1 time, with the feeding amount in the morning accounting for 1/3 of the food intake and the feeding amount in the afternoon accounting for 2/3 of the food intake. The daily feeding amount of each adult pigeon is about 50g, which can be increased appropriately during training. Pigeons can be called back to their homes and fed after being grounded, so that they can form a conditioned reflex to return to their homes for dinner, which is conducive to homing.

4. During pigeon training and competition, we should feed more corn and peas, water first, then feed them. You can feed glucose water first, then light salt water. In summer and during the incubation period of young pigeons, appropriate amount of salt can be added to drinking water.

Pigeons love clean birds, so we must pay great attention to the cleanliness of pigeon houses. We should take a bath at least twice a week in summer and autumn and once a week in winter.