Pigeon farming, in the special industry is neither new nor strange, but the special industry is one of the most mature breeding projects, which over the years in the treacherous special feeding frenzy, the reason why the change is not shocked, in addition to practitioners with a wise eye and mature management techniques, but also with its varieties of its own characteristics. Zhongshan Shiqi pigeon has a long history, the production process is unique, after decades of development and development, and now has a reputation in China, well-known overseas, is now its production technology is summarized below for farmers to refer to. In the pigeon breeding production, according to its growth and development, pigeons are generally divided into four stages of pigeons, pigeons, pigeons, young pigeons (reserve pigeons), breeding pigeons (production pigeons). Breast pigeon generally refers to 0-1 month old young pigeon, this stage of the young pigeon by short-term feeding fattening, the general weight of up to 400-500 grams on the market, the meat is tender, tasty and delicious, and high nutrient content, is a high-protein, low-fat, rich in nitrogen-based acid and trace elements of health food. Guangdong Zhongshan Food Import and Export Co., Ltd. under the Shiqi pigeon field production of the Shiqi pigeon, both the special flavor of the clove flower and no drug residues, so welcomed by consumers at home and abroad.
Shiji pigeons are late birds, just out of the shell of the baby pigeons body is weak, the body is only covered with newborn feathers, body temperature self-regulation ability is weak, the eyes can not be opened, can not walk and self-feeding, rely on the parent pigeons to feed in order to survive. The growth rate of suckling pigeons is fast and the feed conversion rate is high.
Lactating pigeons can raise their mouths upward and insert them diagonally into the mouths of their parents, who then spit out the milk mouth-to-mouth and feed it to the lactating pigeons in 3 hours to 4 hours after they come out of their shells. From a few hours to 4 days old, the pigeons feed the milk to the suckling pigeons; from 5 to 7 days old, the milk is thicker and mixed with softened and fermented small pellets (beans); after that, the milk is gradually reduced, and the feed with the original grain and bean feeds is gradually increased; from 9 to 10 days old, the pigeons feed all the original grain and bean pellets to the suckling pigeons. 25 days old, the pigeons feed all the original grain and bean pellets to the suckling pigeons; from 25 days old, the pigeons feed all the original grain and bean pellets to the suckling pigeons. At the age of 25 days, the pigeons start to peck the pellet feed, and at the age of 1 month, they can be weaned and live independently. The composition of pigeon milk in the crop of adult pigeons is 65%-81% moisture, 13.35%-18.6% crude protein, 6.9%-12.7% fat, 0.77% carbon water content, 5.55×105 joules of calories per 100 grams, 1.2% ash, 1.8% (in the ash content). - 1.8% (in ash, containing 0.12%-0.13% calcium, 0.14%-0.17% phosphorus, 0.11%-0.15% sodium, 0.13%-0.15% potassium). Dried pigeon milk contains 56.5% protein and 34% fat. Unlike mammals, pigeon milk lacks carbohydrates and calcium. From the table, we can see that the amount of milk pigeon's food increases gradually with the growth of the age, 10-20 days of age, the maximum amount of food, and then gradually decreasing. 28-30 days of age of the parental pigeon's feeding is very little, this situation is due to:
One, the parental pigeons in the milk pigeons at 15-25 days of age when the pigeon When the pigeons are 15-25 days old, they lay eggs and hatch, and most of them are fed by only one parent pigeon in the morning and afternoon, so their number decreases gradually;
The pigeons start to peck the feed when they are 25 days old, and the parent pigeons reduce the amount of feeding in order to adapt to the needs of the pigeons to leave their parents and live alone in the future. At this time, it is also common to see the behavior of the parent pigeons lightly pecking to drive away the milk pigeons, the so-called "by the nest". First, train the parent pigeon to feed the suckling pigeon. The mouth of the breast pigeon is carefully inserted into the mouth of the parent pigeon, and the parent pigeon will usually feed after many times of repetition. If after coaching still will not feed, should be transferred out of the milk pigeon and nest; if due to disease and can not breastfeeding, in addition to the parent pigeon timely isolation diagnosis and treatment, but also the same milk pigeon transferred out of the nest and nest.
Secondly, the position of the milk pigeon should be changed. Under natural incubation conditions, the first one out of the shell, usually grow faster. In addition, some parents feed the same pigeon first every time, and the one that is fed first also grows faster. Therefore, there is a big size difference between two pigeons in the same nest. In these cases, you should switch their positions in the nesting tray before the 6-7 day old pigeons can stand. This way, the parents may later feed the smaller one first and catch up with the larger one. It is also possible to hand-feed the faster-growing pigeons each day, leaving the smaller ones to be fed by the parents. In this way, the smaller pigeons will grow faster. However, this method is not easy to do in large-scale production, the usual practice is after the pigeons will stand and walk, and other nests of similar size or similar age of single chicks together, double chicks on the transfer.
Third, the transfer of pigeons. And chick is one of the effective measures to improve the fertility of pigeons. Because after the merging of chicks, the breeder without pigeons can lay 1 nest of eggs about 10 days earlier, shortening the egg-laying period, the egg-laying rate of breeders can be increased by about 50%.
Fourth, add feeding health care sand. Young pigeon's digestive system function is not yet perfect, in feeding, in addition to the whole day supply of health care sand to the pigeons, but also manually to the pigeons to add granular health care sand. The method is 5 days old, feed 1 time a day, each time to feed 1 grain, with the age of the increase and appropriate increase. 10 days old, feed 2 times a day, each time to feed 2-3 grains.
Fifth, keep the nest clean and dry. Milk pigeon stage to replace the bedding once or twice, otherwise, the nest plate accumulates a large number of feces, bedding wet odor and worms, milk pigeons easily infected with disease, or even death, such as umbilical cord trichomonas is often due to bedding wet and infected. Only by doing a good job of cleaning and sanitizing the bedding of the nesting tray can the health of the pigeons be ensured.
Sixth, the fattening of pigeons.
(1) In order to improve the quality of suckling pigeons and reduce the burden of parental feeding, the suckling pigeons can be fattened by artificial feeding.
(2) equipment requirements: fattening pigeon cage specifications for 600 cm × 60 cm × 20 cm for a group, each group can be divided into six small cells, each small cell can be put 100 pigeons; feeding tools can be used to round detergent bottle inserted into a 5-centimeter-long rubber mouth made of ?br>
(3) pigeons size requirements: 18 days of age or so is appropriate.
(4) feed requirements and feeding methods: generally can be used commercially available high-quality chick feed, fat chicken material. Feeding method is generally 2.8:1 ratio of water, soak in cold or hot water for 1 hour can be used; three meals a day, feeding time is generally 7:00 am, noon 1:00 pm, 8:00 pm; feeding with the left thumb and middle finger to the mouth of the pigeons to open, the right hand to hold the feed canisters, the mouth of the bottle inserted into the mouth of the pigeons, squeezing the bottle feeding to eighty percent full can be. When feeding, you need to pay special attention to catch out the indigestion of pigeons, timely irrigation and feeding of digestive drugs.
(5) Generally after 5-7 days of artificial fattening, the pigeon's slaughter weight can reach 400 grams, can be marketed. 1, with young pigeon breeder's feed with: with young pigeon breeder material feeding pigeons, with young pigeon material generally need to add more peas and Park rice, with young pigeon feed formula: corn 40%, peas 35%, Park rice 10%, sorghum 5%, wheat 10%.
2, with young pigeons need to feed 5 meals a day, 7:00 am, 10:00 am; 14:00 pm, 17:00 pm; 20:00 pm feeding, each time after the feed should be adjusted once.
3, transfer period feeding digestive drugs. Milk pigeons grow to 7-9 days of age, pigeon milk qualitative changes, breeder pigeons into the pigeon milk contains a large amount of raw material, easy to cause pigeon dyspepsia, at this time should be fed to digestive drugs.
4, timely supply of sufficient water. Feeding pigeons have a high demand for water, and should be added diligently (especially in summer) to facilitate the growth of pigeons.
5, to ensure the supply of health sand. Add health care sand twice a day, each addition is about 25 grams. If you can feed every suckling pigeon with health care sand granules, the suckling pigeon will grow better.
6, feeding multivitamin. The dosage of 0.5% of the dosage of health care sand is appropriate to supplement the growth of pigeons required for nutrition.
7, when the pigeons grow to 15-18 days of age, in order not to hinder the breeder to lay a nest of eggs, it is necessary to drop the nest. There are two methods: one is the nest basin placed under the hemp bag, the pigeons can be caught; the second is the nest and the pigeons together with the removal of the bottom of the net, the egg-laying frame and put a new nest (double nest basin).
8, every day to clean up the cage manure, regular removal of pigeon feces contaminated bedding.
9, the market time of pigeons: the market time of pigeons is generally 20-25 days old, according to the size of pigeons, the market demand to make a decision.