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

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 match your own, generally to meet the pigeon needs can be. Mineral feed such as: yellow mud, yellow sand, 3 parts, 2 parts of slaked lime, salt 1 part, shell powder or eggshell powder 0.5 parts, 0.5 parts of charcoal, crushed and mixed with water and rolled into a ball to dry, 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 the flight, to feed, so that the formation of its return to the house to have food conditioned reflex, 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. In summer and during the hatching of young pigeons, salt can be added to their drinking water.

Attention to pigeon disease defense:

A bug

The pigeon feather louse. Feather lice are small insects parasitized in the feathers of pigeons, and are not harmful to pigeons when slightly infected, but seriously affect the ability to fly and hatchability, and symptoms such as disheveled feathers, easy to fall off, and newborn pigeons' feathers are not in order.

Clean and sanitize the pigeon lofts and change the grass nests. Pigeon lice treatment can be used to kill permethrin liquid, so that the pigeons to carry out a medicinal bath.

Two diseases

1. Meat pigeon enteritis: usually caused by parasites, mold, bacteria and enterovirus. Diseased pigeons pull white, green, brown thin feces like water, feces often with blood. The pigeons are weak and have severe thirst.

The method of prevention and treatment is to take 3-5 ml of peanut oil or soybean oil internally to clear the intestines, and feed easily digestible food.

Water with neomycin or ciprofloxacin.

Orally take half a tablet (0.25 grams) of sulfadiazine twice a day for 2 to 3 days.

Honeysuckle decoction and put into the appropriate amount of brown sugar infusion, 2 times a day, each time 5 ml.

For pigeons with blood in the feces, use 1 gram of Xianhecao to decoct water and take it orally.

2. Hepatomegaly of pigeons: commonly known as pigeon wasting disease, the cause of which is mainly due to contaminated drinking water, feed spoilage. Diseased pigeons show a loss of appetite, listlessness, excrement, body rapid emaciation, when the condition is serious, abdominal liver enlargement obvious, shortness of breath.

Prevention methods: ① Pay attention to the cleanliness of drinking water and freshness of feed, especially in summer, the feed is best to feed now with.

②For the onset of the pigeon, ciprofloxacin or enrofloxacin and multivitamin should be used to drink water for 3 to 5 days.

③Orally take 1 or 2 anti-inflammatory tablets of oxalic acid twice a day for 2 to 3 days.

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