Efficient meat pigeon breeding method

Abstract

The invention discloses an efficient meat pigeon breeding method and belongs to the technical field of meat (egg) pigeon breeding. According to the method, healthy adult female pigeons living for at least 150 days are placed in a pigeon cage for raising in pairs, asocial female pigeons or female pigeons with defects are sorted out after two weeks, and then raising is continued till the egg producing period; at the same time, well-developed male pigeons living for at least 150 days are selected from the same pigeonry and raised in an independent cage, semen collection training is conducted after two weeks, and male pigeons with little seminal fluid or with defects are sorted out; after the female pigeons lay eggs one or two times, fertilized hatching eggs are obtained with the artificial fertilization method; healthy and qualified nestling pigeons are obtained with the artificial hatching method; young pigeons are raised with the artificial gavage method. According to the method, meat pigeon production efficiency is improved fundamentally, a large number of high-quality young pigeons are bred quickly, and egg laying interval is shortened greatly. The method is adaptive to large-scale and industrialized development of meat pigeon production.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of meat (egg) pigeon breeding. Background technique [0002] The production of meat pigeons is not the same as that of ordinary poultry (chicken, duck, goose). It implements the traditional male-female pairing mode (monogamy) and the feeding method of parent pigeons. A pair of breeding pigeons can only provide 8 to 10 broods of eggs a year , or 15 to 17 pigeons. Along with the increase of production cost, existing squab production mode can't adapt to the needs of modern large-scale production. [0003] my country has 30 million pairs of breeding pigeons, half of which are male pigeons (monogamous), which has caused a great waste of production. Moreover, the traditional breeding mode has brought about low reproductive performance of breeding pigeons and high production costs of squabs, which have seriously restricted the industrialization of meat pigeons. With the improvement of people's living standards, ...

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Problems solved by technology

With the increase of production cost, the existing pigeon production mode can no longer meet the needs of modern large-scale production

[0003] my country has 30 million pairs of breeding pigeons, half of which are male pigeons (monogamous), which has caused a great waste of production

Moreover, the traditional breeding mode has brought about the phenomenon of low reproductive performance of breeding pigeons and high production costs of squabs, which have seriously restricted the industrialization of meat pigeons.