One, choose a good breed: At present, the domestic rearing of the good breed of meat pigeon, there are French pigeons (also known as the Montaigne pigeons), the United States of America's landed king pigeons, Europe's Podex pigeons and our country's Zhongshan Shiqi pigeons, and so on. You can also choose from the local pigeons in the individual large, fast-growing pigeons to raise.

Two, create pigeon loft: pigeons like to live in sunny, ventilated and dry, north to south of the high place, and love to clean, good activities. Therefore, pigeon lofts should be set up in the ground 4-6 meters high under the eaves or on the balcony, as far as possible to achieve the back of the north face to the south. Construction of pigeon lofts can choose wood, linoleum paper or plastic film as a material, conditions can also be used in glass, wire netting, nylon netting and other materials to frame the loft to 12 square meters or so appropriate, and then, and then set up against the wall of the pigeon loft layered, generally 50 centimeters long, 40 centimeters wide, 50 centimeters high, the left and right front to stay in a square aperture to form the framework of pigeon cupboards, each pair of pigeons accounted for an area of about 0.3 square meters. Pigeon lofts should be opened to the wind window, there is no sports place and perches (can be nailed to the wall, with wooden stakes, bamboo can be).

In order to avoid pigeons fighting for nests and beating during the laying period, the egg-laying basin should be slightly more than the number of pairs of pigeons. Half a day after the breast pigeon is out of the shell, to see whether the parent pigeon feeding, if the parent pigeon is sick to switch the parent pigeon artificial training to feed the chick. After 8 days, the pigeons should be fed a quarter of a tablet of yeast every day to enhance their digestive ability. Egg-laying pots can be made of wooden boards, pots 5 centimeters deep, length and width of 15 centimeters, pots pad pine leaves or straw. After the young pigeons are out of the shell, pay attention to change the basin. The old pots should be sterilized in the sun for future use. Food bowl and drinker should be placed reasonably, keep clean, summer and set up a pigeon bath tub, for its free bath, so as to avoid pigeon lice. If you use a wooden food bowl, you can also add a wire bent into the bar, so that pigeons eat neatly in its place, to avoid each other to peck.

Three, group feeding: meat pigeon feed avoid single, can be formulated mixed feed. The formula is 25% peas, 30% corn, 20% sorghum, 20% brown rice, 5% mung beans. Summer another 10-20% of mung beans for concentrate feed. You can also add some red soil, salt and fresh greens to the feed as appropriate. Some places also use sun-dried yellow mud 32%, washed and sifted fine sand 35%, crushed shrimp shells 30%, 5% charcoal, salt 3%. Mixed with water to formulate health care sand" in a small tank, so that pigeons are free to feed. General a pair of pigeons a day feed 1 5 two or so, divided into morning and evening feeding, mother pigeons holding pigeons, at noon to feed a meal, drinking water to ensure the supply, "rather than break a day of food, not a day of water".

Four, careful management: ① pay attention to pairing, pigeons are "monogamous" system, breeding male and female ratio must be 1:1. 5 months of age after the general start of breeding, when young pigeons seek each other for a mate, should be allowed to free combination, and then according to the male and female pairs were put into the closet to raise. If the adult pigeons are just bought, let them get familiar with the nest box after pairing. Let them familiarize with each other and build up their feelings. Pay attention to the hygiene of the pigeon loft, the pigeon loft should be cleaned once a day, and sterilized once a month.

Fifth, timely prevention and treatment of pigeon diseases: the pigeon's disease resistance is very strong, usually in addition to good hygiene in the pigeon loft, you can regularly feed some of the drugs to prevent pigeon diseases. Common pigeon diseases are diarrhea and coccidiosis. Found sick pigeons should be timely treatment. She pox, the pox tumor can be broken with boric acid water rinse; treatment of meat pigeon enteritis diarrhea, half a piece of dysentery can be dissolved in water for pigeons to drink, the dosage should be small; treatment of eye disease, the available chlortetracycline ophthalmic solution or tetracycline ophthalmic solution eye spotting; the treatment of gastrointestinal disease, the available chloramphenicol, hygromycin, co-trimoxazole a quarter of a tablet can be used; pigeons suffering from coccidiosis rely on the loft to clean and disinfect the solution, the available quicklime sprinkled on the field, and then with the 0.1% Xinjiermei solution with 50 parts of water to soak the trough and drinking water, every seven days to disinfect. Usually, morning and evening to "three look": look at the appetite, look at the feces, in order to timely detection of disease.