Breeding method of hibiscus birds
Cage setting
Canaries can be kept in square or round cages at home, and it is best to keep them in special cages. Usually, male and female birds are kept in separate cages, and only 1 bird is kept in each cage. From August to September, they are kept in closed cages for canaries to nest and breed. At this time, it can be replaced by a 46 cm ×30 cm× 35 cm breeding cage. An artificial nest, shaped like a bowl, with an upper opening diameter of 12 cm and a depth of 15 cm, is hung in a breeding cage. Cages must be equipped with food cans, water tanks and perches. The mouths of food cans and water tanks should be large and the poles should be flat and round. The bottom of the cage is covered with fine sand or cardboard to clean bird droppings.
Feeding and management
The feed is millet, barnyard grass, corn flour, soybean, rapeseed, etc. , can choose or match as appropriate. Feed cooked eggs, millet flour and peanuts before molting, breeding in winter or losing weight. According to the proportion of staple food of 10% ~ 20%. You should also feed 1 young leaves every day, such as fresh Chinese cabbage and fresh petit bitters. Canary especially likes to hold the stem, which can not only prevent bird diarrhea, but also provide vitamins. If conditions permit, the fresh Viburnum bracteatum can be dried and stored in summer and autumn for use in winter.
Canary loves cleanliness and insists on bathing all the year round. After washing, the water in the water bowl should be changed in time. Sun in the soft sunshine every day 1 hour, too Sun Long's exposure will make the feathers fade. Cover the birdcage with a cage in summer night to prevent mosquito bites. Canary should be especially quiet during mating, hatching and hatching to avoid being frightened. It is necessary to hang the brooding cage on a clean wall that can shelter from the wind and rain, transmit light and facilitate the brooding of parent birds.
type
After the male and female are caged, it will appear in 20 ~ 30 days. You can hang the artificial nest on the breeding cage. When you see the female bird wandering or spinning in the nest with feathers in her mouth, it means that nesting has begun. At this time, a piece of clean cotton should be hung on the cage post, and the birds will soon use it to build their nests. 3 ~ 4 days after nesting, females begin to lay eggs, and each nest can lay 2 ~ 6 eggs.
Canary is hatched by a female bird. Because the female lays 1 egg every day, the hatching time of the chicks is different. In order to overcome this deficiency, the fake eggs made of gypsum can be changed into real eggs after the female lays eggs, and then the fake eggs are taken out and put back into the nest for the birds to hatch. This will make the chicks hatch on the same day.
Young birds will not be fed after hatching, but must be fed by their parents. Little golden finch mainly eats nutritious and digestible food and water such as egg yolk noodles and tender cabbage. During the brooding period, feed 1 fresh cooked egg yolk every day. If the parent birds don't feed the chicks the next day, they must be artificially fed. Until the parent birds feed the chicks or the chicks peck.
It takes about 25 days for chicks to grow feathers. After 1 month, they can leave their parents and move to cages to feed. At this time, the feeding is still mainly based on egg yolk powder, and it is not until the chicks are 2 months old that they can gradually switch to Japanese food. Most females can mate and lay eggs again 17 ~ 2 1 days after the hatched chicks hatch. The chicks begin to sing at the age of 6 months, and will sing and reproduce at the age of 9 ~ 10 months. If the golden sparrow wants to learn to sing well, it must be led by a nice guy. Adult canaries, larks, etc. They are all good singing "teachers", and they can also be taught to sing through recorded or recorded songs, so that they can gradually become top-grade birds with beautiful songs.
Key points of raising hibiscus birds
The space in the cage must be large enough to make hibiscus birds comfortable and not stuffy, but also to set up food cans, water tanks and flat round perches in the cage, and to spread fine sand at the bottom of the cage to improve the best environment for birds to live.
For canaries, July-August every year is a molting period, and it is also a time when the weak face the test of life and death. During molting, weak hibiscus birds are easy to die, while healthy birds are easy to get sick. Therefore, at this critical moment, farmers should avoid canary blowing and have less contact with the outside world. Add 10% rapeseed meal and squid bone meal to the feed to provide energy for hibiscus birds.
Canary feeds mainly on plant seeds every day, and also preys on some insects in summer. So caged canaries can prepare some food, such as millet, barnyard grass, corn flour, rapeseed, apples, vegetables and so on. Or mix several different foods in a proper proportion and feed them.
In addition to daily diet management, farmers should also clean the bird cages in time. Because the hibiscus bird is an advanced ornamental bird, the maintenance requirements for it will be higher. Generally speaking, the breeder needs to clean the excrement at the bottom of the cage 2-3 times a week, brush the trough and water tank once a day and replace with new food and water, wash the bass pen once every three days, take a bath at least once a week and trim the claw nails in time.
In addition, in order to ensure that hibiscus birds have more appreciation value, breeders should also take the birds to sunbathe regularly and bathe in the gentle sunshine every day 1 hour. At the same time, hibiscus birds can be properly trained to become smarter, master more singing or other skills, and improve their ornamental value.
Feeding knowledge of hibiscus birds
Hibiscus birds can be mixed at ordinary times, but they should be kept in cages for the first two months of the breeding season, which is conducive to rapid growth. If the breeder mainly listens to calls, then the male bird must be kept in a separate cage. In order to cultivate excellent hibiscus birds, it is very important to choose and pair breeding birds. There are generally two ways: one is the purification of the original species, and the other is the hybridization of different species. For the purification of the original species, we can choose two unrelated pure high-quality birds for breeding, and their offspring are generally genetically stable, with pure appearance and coat color, and there is little difference in quality between birds in the same nest. However, at present, because there are few truly pure strains introduced and cultivated in China, and most of the varieties introduced from abroad are not excellent varieties themselves, it is very difficult to obtain two pure strains that are not related by blood. Although many bird lovers everywhere claim to own it, it can't stand the test in fact. Even most of bird people is only seen in photos. 1993, Changchun introduced six hibiscus eagle birds with small head, thin neck, short hair and straight legs, each pair worth as much as 6.5438+0.6 million yuan. In recent years, no breeding birds of this quality have been introduced from other places. At present, the high-grade variety in our center is a hybrid between the offspring of this group of birds or the offspring of this group of birds and the erect type introduced from abroad later.
In order to cultivate excellent varieties, many bird friends wasted a lot of money, took many detours and bought some cheap birds that looked very good, but the offspring they bred were very unsuccessful. The reason is that the quality of birds is not pure and the genes are not stubborn. Therefore, to cultivate high-grade varieties, at least one purebred bird should be purchased, and then intergenerational purification should be carried out with this bird as the axis. But we need to pay attention to two problems: first, every time we match the axis bird with its offspring, we must be able to make up for its defects. Second, the next generation used for purification should choose those with strong physique and excellent appearance. There are many controversies about what a pure bird is. We think it depends on the blood relationship of birds, the appearance of birds and the quality of offspring. In fact, it is a very complicated matter, so I won't go into details here. Interested bird friends can get in touch with this center and discuss the improvement together.
Hibiscus bird's food is very miscellaneous, and when to feed what kind of feed is appropriate depends on its nutritional needs at that time. The main nutrients that birds need are: protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and minerals. These nutrients are generally ingested in the daily feed that hibiscus birds like to eat. But in molting and breeding season, minerals and vitamins should be supplied separately. The daily feed of hibiscus birds is generally grain, pasta, a small amount of oil crops and vegetables. Cereals include: millet, barnyard grass and millet. Oil crops are: perilla, rapeseed, peanut, walnut kernel and so on. These oil crops don't need to be fed at ordinary times, but they are supplied in moderation during the chick period, molting period and * * * period. This is conducive to the reproduction of birds.
Hibiscus birds like a clean environment, so the feces in the cage should be removed frequently, and the perch should also be cleaned frequently. Drinking water should be changed every day. Hibiscus birds like to take a bath. They should take a bath once a day in summer and once a week in winter with warm water. After bathing, they should wait until their feathers are dry before going outdoors to avoid catching a cold. The common diseases of hibiscus birds are intestinal diseases and respiratory diseases, which are mostly caused by unclean drinking water and food or sudden changes in feeding environment. It is completely avoidable to pay attention to prevention in peacetime. In short, it is not difficult to raise hibiscus birds. As long as you have love for her, you can raise her well.