Key points of blue peacock breeding technology

The blue peacock, also known as the Indian peacock, is distributed in India and Sri Lanka. The blue peacock also has two mutant forms – the white peacock and the black peacock. Farmed commodities are referred to as blue peacocks. Its breeding techniques are introduced as follows:

1. Venues and fences

Peacocks are timid and afraid of fright, requiring a quiet environment, clean and dry venues, and any noisy and sudden high-frequency sound will cause the flock to be frightened and chaotic, and make a frightened cry; if frightened during egg laying, immediately cause egg laying rate and fertilization rate to decline. The site for raising peacocks should be selected in a place with dry terrain and a quiet environment. The structure of the fence mainly considers good lighting, dry fence and ample activity space. On average, each breeding bird should have an activity area of about 8 square meters, of which 1/3 shades the rain, 2/3 open air is used as a sports field, covered with fishing nets at a height of 2.5 meters above the ground, surrounded by iron nets or dense bamboo strips, and it is best to use iron nets below 1 meter high near the ground, and the frame of the fence can be used for angle iron, water pipes, etc., and the high beam perch (iron or bamboo) at a height of about 1.3 meters above the ground in the sports field is used for peacock habitat. In order to keep the barn dry and provide peacock sand bath conditions, the sound of movement should be covered with a coarse sand layer of 3-5 cm. Fruit trees can also be planted outside the sports field for shade.

2. Feeding management

The peacock is large, metabolically vigorous, full of feathers, colorful and colorful, the male finches have rudder feathers up to 1.1 meters, the main wing feathers are up to 35 cm long, and the width is 6 cm.

Peacock omnivorous coarse feeding, widely feed beans, poultry eggs, insects, etc., during egg laying, you can grow layer chicken feed, supplemented by wheat, corn, sorghum, peas, mung beans, bamboo beans, etc., and feed a small amount of yellow mealworms, duck eggs (cooked) and other animal feed. At the same time, the fence should always be kept dry and clean, and there should be sufficient drinking water and health sand. In addition, a small amount of chopped green materials should be given every day, such as leeks, elephant grass, etc.

Adult males are about 4.5-5.5 kg, females are 4-4.5 kg, the average daily food intake is about 250 grams, the diet is about 18%-20%, and the energy per kilogram of feed is 11.51-12.36 megajoules.

Peacocks are docile, but be wary of individual males with fierce temperaments, often hostile to strangers or keepers, and pay special attention to such peacocks hurting people with their clawed beaks.

In order to make the breeding finches grow robustly, deworming is carried out once a year before the beginning of winter, and the seedlings are selected and grouped and the chicken Newcastle disease I vaccine is injected at the beginning of the following year.

3. Mating and reproduction

Under normal circumstances, the breeding of finches can lay eggs to 22-24 months of age, the egg laying time is 3-8 months, generally around the time of the lunar "sting" every year, and eggs are laid, and each female finch can produce 28-35 pieces. In order to ensure the fertilization rate, the male and female ratio is mastered at 1:2-3, that is, each barn can only raise one male and equipped with 2-3 female finches, and two male finches cannot be raised at the same time in a bar, otherwise, during the mating period, the male finches fight with each other due to competition, affecting fertilization. The best use life of peacocks is 5-6 years, and the fertilization rate of eggs is reduced year by year.

Peacocks mainly mate at 8-9 a.m. and 4-5 p.m. every day, and the male finches compete to open the screen before mating, and the females send a clucking courtship signal. At this time, it is necessary to keep the environment quiet and prohibit onlookers. Egg laying time is mainly at 5-9 pm every day, mostly in the sand in the shaded corner of the fence, with claws to plan a small nest to lay eggs, you can also artificially use old car tires, put some straw in the middle as a nest nest, adjust the peacock to lay eggs. In order to reduce the contamination of the eggs, it is necessary to pick up the eggs several times before 22:00.

4. Incubation

Captive-bred peacocks can be hatched with poor nesting, hatching capacity, small number of breeding, and small egg quantities. Due to the large size of the peacock eggs (each weighs 100-110 grams), the large hens can have 3-4 eggs per egg, and in the incubation, supplemented by artificial help to turn the eggs twice a day, hatch for 27 days to get out of the shell, and the hens can be used to breed at the same time.

When the number of peacocks is large and the amount of eggs is large, the hatchery is used to hatch. Within 5 days after the eggs are laid, the incubation machine temperature is maintained at 37.5 °C, the relative humidity is 65%-70%, and the general incubation time is 27 days.

The peacock egg is thick in the shell, which is the result of the peacock's natural selection, which makes it difficult to lose the egg temperature in the natural hatching, not easy to break, which is conducive to its breeding offspring in the wild. In the case of artificial breeding using incubators, it is necessary to grasp the problem of uniform heating of artificially incubated eggs, and turn the eggs once every hour in the early stage of incubation, which is conducive to the uniform heating of the eggs and the normal development of the embryos, and is also an important practice to prevent the embryos from sticking to the eggshell. The embryos and eggs hatched for 25 days are transferred into the hatcher at a temperature of 37 °C and a humidity of 75%.

For chicks that hatch for 27 days and are unable to get out of the shell, they should be given artificial "midwifery", carefully peel off the pecking line of the eggshell to help the chicks out of the shell, and the chicks after the shell are left in the machine to wait for the feathers to dry a little before moving out of the machine.

Incubation should be rotated by someone on duty, and make various records, and appropriately adjust the temperature and humidity according to the changes in temperature and weather.

5. Brooding

After the chicks come out of the shell, put in the nursery box, 1-3 days to maintain the temperature of 30 ° C -31 ° C, a week of age insulation requirements of more than 28 ° C, the first choice to feed 0.4% potassium permanganate water, and then feed chicken flower material and yellow mealworm. Chicks are very fond of eating mealworms, after 1 week of age into the cage brood (three layers), brood cage is 100 cm x 70 cm x 40 cm, 1-2 weeks old per grid to raise 10 chicks, 3-4 weeks old per grid 6-8, 5-8 weeks old per grid to raise 5, 8 weeks after the age of 8 weeks into a finch pen, each pen to raise 10-12.

When brooding, a disinfected sack piece should be placed at the bottom of the cage, and need to be changed frequently, keep clean and dry, feed the sink and the water tank to feed the water all day, add complex vitamin B water to the drinking water appropriately, replenish the yellow mealworm regularly every day, gradually supply the green material after 8 weeks of age, and use the chicken IV disease for drinking water immunization once at the age of 5 weeks.

Sixth, the breeding of middle finches

After the chicks grow to 8 weeks old, they are put into the breeding finch house for breeding, each pen area is about 30 square meters, raising 10-12 middle finches; the ground of the pen is paved with 3-5 cm coarse sand, keeping the pen dry, providing sand bath; the first feeding of chicken feed, gradually feeding grain and beans, daily feeding a little cooked duck eggs or yellow mealworms, once a day for chopping green material, place health sand in the pen.

The middle finches are raised to autumn, about 6 months old, if eaten, can be properly bred finches, after slaughtering the carcass is beautiful, the color is light yellow, the muscle layer is thick, the muscle fiber is tender, the slaughter rate is 75%, the average consumption of each material is about 15 kg, and the meat ratio is about 1:4. The middle finches are raised for about a year and a half, gradually maturing, at this time to carry out the selection of species, select the growth and development of normal, healthy, strong feet, pubic bone distance of the individual as the reserve finches, while considering the crown feather arrangement, neck feathers, chest feather color status. Male-female ratio 1:2-3 a group, fixed barn feeding until egg laying, then the energy feed should be properly controlled, to avoid fat deposition, affecting breeding.

Seventh, the disease prevention and control of peacocks

Peacocks are wild birds that form a strong resistance to disease in long-term natural selection. In the process of breeding management in the past few years, keeping the environment quiet, less contact with the outside world, keeping the fence dry, clean and hygienic, and regularly disinfecting the fence is the basic work of disease prevention. In addition, we have also found the following diseases.

1. Pasteurellosis

This is an acute septic infectious disease of peacocks, more common in chicks, adult finches occasionally occur, the incidence of urgency, high mortality, in late spring and early summer is more common, feed added oxytetracycline can be used for prevention, can be treated with streptomycin 20,000-30,000 units / Kg.

2, body parasites

Because peacocks like to eat insects, so susceptible to nematode disease and coccidiosis, we found that there are Huashou nematode, coccidiosis, with levamisole hydrochloride tablets, each adult finches fed 3-4 tablets, the effect is good, at least three times a year deworming, coccidiosis can be controlled by coccidioides.

3. Use chicken plague vaccine to prevent the infection of finches.

4. Stress factors

Peacocks are not domesticated, timid, susceptible to stressors, and produce accidental deaths.

5. Others

In addition, there are body lice, blackheads, vitamin deficiency, foreign body damage, etc., which require us to carefully carry out feeding management, timely detection of problems, and timely take effective measures to prevent and control.

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