How to raise peacocks? How to become proud as a peacock?

Many people like peacocks because of the colorful pictures in Proud, but actually peacocks don't open their screens from time to time, and Proud is not a subjective guess.

With the gradual development of special aquaculture, peacock, a high-grade and precious delicacy, has gradually entered people's sight, and now peacock farming is also very common.

So what is smug behavior? How to raise peacocks? Let's get to know each other.

What is smug behavior?

In fact, gloating is not to show your beauty, but a kind of courtship.

It is understood that the most frequent time for complacency is from March to April, which is their breeding season, so complacency is closely related to reproduction.

Opening the screen is also the function of peacock's own gonad secreting sex hormones.

As the breeding season passed, this phenomenon of opening the screen slowly disappeared.

In addition, when the peacock is frightened or hurt by the enemy, the peacock will also open its screen, which is a natural defensive behavior.

When the weather is hot, peacocks sometimes spread their feathers to dissipate heat.

So there are only three reasons for proud as a peacock, courtship, free-range rearing and fighting.

How to raise peacocks?

1, site selection

Peacocks are timid and afraid of being frightened, so the venue for keeping peacocks should be in a dry and quiet place.

The main consideration for the structure of the pen house is good lighting, dry pen house and sufficient activity space.

In order to keep the pen house dry and provide peacock sand bath conditions, the playground should be covered with a coarse sand layer with a thickness of 3 ~ 5 cm, and at the same time, a cross beam perch (iron or bamboo) should be set at a distance of about 1.3 meters from the ground for peacock to inhabit.

If conditions permit, fruit trees can also be planted outside the sports ground for shade.

2. Incubation management

Peacock eggs, each weighing about108g, must be collected and stored in cold storage in time, and hatched every five days, with the incubation period of 26-28 days.

Before hatching, we should make good preparations such as egg selection, disinfection, humidity control and temperature adjustment, and pay attention to turning and drying eggs during hatching.

The incubation temperature is 37.5℃ and the humidity is 65%~70%.

After 25 days of incubation, the embryos were transferred to an incubator at 37℃ and 75% humidity.

3. Artificial brooding

Young peacocks need to provide suitable environmental conditions and high nutritional requirements, and need careful management because of their tenderness.

Thoroughly disinfect cages and equipment before brooding, and keep the newly hatched peacocks warm. The temperature can be controlled according to the age and performance of chickens.

The feeding density of chicks is 30~50. Chickens should drink water containing 0.02% potassium permanganate 24 hours after hatching, which is beneficial to meconium discharge, and then feed them (crude protein content is above 22.5%), and keep the feed and water constant.

4. Feed management

Peacock is omnivorous, coarse feed, widely eaten by beans, eggs and insects. During the laying period, laying hens are mainly fed, supplemented by wheat, corn, sorghum, peas, mung beans and bamboo beans, supplemented by a small amount of animal feed such as Tenebrio molitor and duck eggs (cooked).

In addition, give a small amount of chopped green materials every day, such as leeks and elephant grass.

Adult males and females weigh about 4.5-5.5kg and 4-4.5kg, respectively. The average daily intake is about 250g, the crude protein is about 18%-20%, and the energy per kilogram of feed is 2800-3000 calories.

5, mating and reproduction

Under normal circumstances, breeding finches can lay eggs when they are raised to 22-24 months old, and the spawning time is from March to August, and they usually start to lay eggs around the "fright" of the lunar calendar every year.

In order to ensure the fertilization rate, the male-female ratio should be controlled at 1: 2 ~ 3, and the utilization period of peacocks should be 5 ~ 6 years. After a long time, the fertilization rate of eggs will decrease year by year.

In order to reduce the pollution of breeding eggs, it is necessary to check the eggs many times before 22: 00 at night.

Peacock is a new special bird in China. There are artificially raised blue peacocks, green peacocks and white peacocks, which have great development value, considerable economic benefits and broad market prospects.

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