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The male and female identification method text description:

1, the pigeon in the hand, with the thumb and forefinger gently pulling the beak forward, to lead to straighten, and then let go immediately. If the pigeon's head struggles backward and flings back with force, it should be regarded as a male. If the pigeon's beak "blah blah blah" two or three times, it should be regarded as female.

2. Hold the pigeon, use your right hand to put the three toes of the pigeon together in a parallel way, the one with the long toes on the left side should be regarded as male; the one with the same toes should be regarded as female. Note that the pigeon's two feet are basically the same in terms of length, and it is more certain to look at both the left and right feet.

3. Hold the pigeon and feel the pubic bone with your hand. If the pubic bone is parallel, it should be regarded as female. The one on the left, if it is concave inward and not parallel, should be regarded as male.

When you first start practicing to identify female and male, you can look at the pigeons several times with known male and female pigeons, and test and measure them with the above three methods, and I think you will get something out of it.

4. Grab the pigeons by their bladders like a chicken. The one with the tail feathers up is the female and the one with the tail feathers down is the male.

Feeding methods:

Pigeon feed to miscellaneous grains, more commonly used wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, corn, peas, mung beans, hemp seeds, peanut rice. Feeding should be at least two kinds of feed mixed feeding, for example, usually wheat, corn, sorghum **** 3, peas 1, training to wheat, corn, sorghum **** 3, peas 1, hemp 1.

In addition to miscellaneous grains, you can also supply green vegetables, cabbage, wheat seedlings and other green fodder and mineral feed. Mineral feed can be purchased from pigeon associations around the world. You can also mix your own, generally to meet the needs of pigeons can be.

Mineral feed such as: yellow mud, yellow sand, 3 parts, 2 parts of slaked lime, salt 1 part, 0.5 parts of shell powder or eggshell powder, 0.5 parts of charcoal, crushed and mixed with water and rolled into a ball to dry in the sun, feed the ball broken in the pigeon house.

Feed twice a day, once at about 7:00 a.m. and once at about 4:30 p.m. The amount of feed in the morning accounts for 1/3 of its diet, and the amount of feed in the afternoon accounts for 2/3 of its diet, and the amount of feed per adult pigeon per day is about 50 grams, which can be increased a little bit during training. Pigeons can be called back to the house after stopping flight, feeding, so that the formation of the conditioned reflex to return to the house to have food, in order to facilitate the return to the nest.

During the training period, pigeons should be fed more corn and peas, and water should be fed first, then feed. Glucose water can be fed first, and then light salt water. During the summer and hatching young pigeons, you can add the right amount of salt to their drinking water.

Pigeons are extremely clean birds, must pay close attention to the cleanliness of the loft, summer, fall at least two times a week water bath, winter water bath once a week can be.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Pigeons