<h1>To raise a good bird, you must first know the following feeding points:</h1>
1. Cage:
The cage for raising birds should be selected to be wider, with a width and height of at least 45 cm and a depth of about 40 cm, which is called "eating without a cage".
It is best to use a horizontal nest box for breeding birds, which can also be replaced by a bamboo tube with a diameter of 11 cm, but a hole with a diameter of about 5 cm should be opened on the side, and it can hatch safely with the nest box. If you use white paper to block half of the barbed wire in front of the cage, so that the light in the cage is dimmer, it is more conducive to the nest of the bird to cover the eggs. Nest boxes cannot be replaced arbitrarily in the middle of the way.
Nest grass can be used with palm leaves or crushed hay, and soft bedding material is provided before the egg laying period, and an old newspaper can be laid at the bottom of the cage, which can be torn up by the bird with its mouth and laid out in the nest.
The perch in the cage should be thicker, generally one stick is enough, so that the bird has enough space to fly freely and prevent infertility from having too much body fat.
Ordinary food jars and water tanks can be used in the cage. Wen Bird especially loves water bathing, and puts the water bath and the condom together into the cage for bathing, and the condom can prevent the cage from getting wet.
2. Feed:
The staple food of the bird is barnyard, millet and millet, and the proportion is: 6 parts of barnyard, 3 parts of millet, 1 part of millet, or 4 parts of weeds, 1 part of millet and 1 part of millet.
Because the origin of the bird is a rice-producing area, it still loves to eat rice under the conditions of feeding, so it is necessary to feed some crushed rice to improve health. The supply of crushed rice should account for 10% of the staple food. Crushed rice is best placed in separate food tanks and not mixed with staple foods.
Green vegetables should be fully supplied, and all kinds of greens can be fed, with the stems of cabbage and rapeseed being the best.
Mineral feed oyster shell powder, bone meal and multivitamins should also be adequately supplied.
3. Reproduction:
Pairing: The birds mature 7-8 months after hatching, and can be used for breeding and breeding in early spring and autumn of that year. As long as the temperature is suitable, it can be bred all year round, but too many breeding nests will harm the health of female birds, and it is generally better to breed 4 nests per year.
The bird enters the moulting period around July. In August, the captain produced new feathers. In early August, they can start to give estrus feed, let them bathe in water, start to nest in mid-August, and lay eggs immediately after completion, 1 per day, generally 4-7 per litter. During the egg laying period, the female bird should be very carefully observed, and there are many cases of female birds dying due to egg obstruction. If a female bird is found to have egg obstruction, castor oil should be filled with a dropper immediately from the mouth, or from the anus.
Hatching: The bird begins to hatch after laying the 3rd egg, generally 18 days to hatch, and there is a difference of 1-2 days between the north and the south due to the temperature level. Eggs are tested after 7-8 days of incubation, and birds that change hands can postpone egg testing for a few days or not. After the chicks come out of the shell, the number of times the female bird comes out to eat oyster powder increases, and the keeper can judge that the chick has come out of the shell when he sees this situation. Females can suspend egg rice feed during incubation.
Brooding: The chicks will not eat after the shell, they need to be fed by the parent birds, at this time, they should be fed eggs and millet (the amount of egg yolk is halved), and more oyster powder should be fed. Chicks open their eyes 10 days after they emerge from their shells, feathers after 15 days, and nest after 30 days. It takes a while for the chicks to eat independently, and it is generally safer to leave the mother bird for more than 45 days after the shell. Young birds are weaker and should pay attention to changes in temperature.
Precautions for raising birds:
One. Do not feed it to eat foods that have a taste:
Some birds like to eat something that tastes good, but this is very bad for it. As long as it learns to eat something with taste, as long as it is what people eat, it likes to eat, but it will affect health.
Two. Do not casually apply ointment to Bai Wen Bird:
When it is slightly injured, the owner will use ointment to apply it is not OK, the ointment is too much, but will make the feather stick and lose the thermal insulation effect, the bird will feel uncomfortable, and use the mouth to peck, resulting in bleeding or hair removal and other symptoms;
Three. Don't let it out of your line of sight:
After work, after school, let out to play for a few hours, when not playing immediately shut up, this is more secure for it, because in general breeding, the life of white birds will not be long, often accidents, or illness, for their sake or be careful.
Four. Do not trim its wings:
Some people are always deeply afraid of its flight, so they cut off their wings, causing it to be unstable when flying, falling to the ground when flying, resulting in chest or foot injuries and bleeding.