Feeding technique
1. Reasonable feeding. Farmers who feed pheasants with raw grain can appropriately increase the feeding ratio of corn, sorghum and other energy feeds (recommended formula: corn 40%, wheat 15%, fried peas 20%, rapeseed cake 15%, bran 5%, rice bran 4%, bone meal 1%, and each ton of feed contains salt. Buy domestic chicken feed to feed broiler growth materials to ensure adequate drinking water. In addition, 10% ~ 20% green feed can be added. Let pheasants take a sand bath at least once a week and spray 2% trichlorfon solution in river sand to kill ectoparasites.
2. Control the density. At the initial stage of fattening (5 ~ 1 1 week-old), you can raise/kloc-0 ~12 pheasants per square meter, and then gradually reduce the density to 6 ~ 8 pheasants per square meter according to sex, strength and size. At the same time, enough grooves should be set to make the feed uniform and grow consistently.
3. Establish a habitat to prevent pecking. Habitat racks should be placed inside and outside the fattening pheasant house for pheasants to climb and stop, which not only makes full use of the feeding space, but also helps to reduce pheasant pecking addiction. Pheasants found pecked should be coated with purple syrup or camphor ointment and kept in isolation. When necessary, control the pheasant flock by hanging grass or vegetables in the house (1), induce pheasants to peck at vegetables to disperse their energy of pecking at feathers, and supplement vitamins and cellulose. (2) At the age of 9 ~11week, 1% feather powder can be added to the feed. (3) The salt in feed should be increased to 2.5%, or salt should be added to drinking water to ensure adequate water supply.
4. Prevent flying. Try to keep the venue quiet, refuse to visit, and reduce the influence of external factors. In order to prevent accidental flight injury or death, the primary flight feathers on one side of the pheasant can be cut off.
5. Do a good job in epidemic prevention. The pheasant house should be cleaned every day and disinfected once a week with disinfectant such as Baidusha. Pheasants aged 8 ~ 9 weeks should be inoculated with Newcastle disease vaccine in drinking water to prevent the occurrence of poultry cholera or coccidiosis, and pecking addiction should be prevented between chickens and pheasants.
Pecking addiction
Also known as pica, pica and mutual pecking, including anal pecking, plucking, toe pecking, head pecking and egg pecking. , is a very complicated abnormal taste syndrome caused by various nutrient deficiencies and metabolic disorders. Chickens of all ages and breeds get sick. Once the chickens peck at each other, even if the stimulating factors disappear, this bad habit will often continue, leading to injury, disability and death of the chickens, resulting in no small economic losses.