The moulting period of a pigeon is also the most important period in its life. Without a healthy and beautiful feather, even if it has other advantages, what can it do? The result can only be lost. The molting period of pigeons is also the time when their state enters a trough, and their physique is equivalent to a relatively weak period. Pigeons at this time need a lot of nutrition to supplement the need for molting. However, at this time, the autumn competition will be held soon, and both internal and external troubles will come at the same time. If not handled properly, pigeons are easily infected with various serious diseases, such as adenovirus, salmonella, Newcastle disease, crop diseases, etc., which directly affect the health and competition results of racing pigeons. Maybe a year's hard work will be in vain. Therefore, during molting, we must give priority to disease prevention and molt safely!
During the molting period of racing pigeons, we usually have several methods: molting naturally, making strips, molting ahead of time and delaying molting!
Some people say that feeding with high zinc feed can promote molting. This method is mainly improved by citing the knowledge of molting of laying hens, but if high zinc feed is used, it is easy to make racing pigeons depressed. Don't think about diet, leading to physical decline, and some will also cause vomiting! In fact, simply speaking, as long as they are not given nutritious feed, they can speed up their molting. In the early stage of molting, it is also a simple and good method to avoid light and use a lot of clear feed to accelerate molting.