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A Detailed Guide to Thrush Breeding Techniques and Feeding Management Methods
(1) Maintain a Quiet Environment Newly captured thrushes are quite wild, not adapted to life in a cage, and appear restless and anxious, desperately wanting to escape, and are also afraid of people. Therefore, one bird per cage should be kept, raised separately, to prevent them from flapping and fighting each other and causing injury or death. To keep it as
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How should feed be formulated in hwamei (Chinese laughingthrush) breeding?
The feed for hwamei should be comprehensively arranged and blended according to the food structure under wild conditions, combined with the actual situation of home rearing. (1) Main food composition The feed of artificially reared hwamei mainly includes cereal grains such as corn, rice, and millet, and supplementary animal feed includes eggs, breadworms, and other insects such as locusts, young cicadas, lvge, pine caterpillars, etc.
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How to keep a Hwamei (Chinese Thrush) through the winter? Key points of winter feeding and management techniques
Feeding and management of the Hwamei through the winter: Before the start of winter each year, most Hwamei birds have molted into new feathers; this natural instinct and change of plumage are of great significance to the Hwamei's overwintering. In winter, when the weather is cold, the ambient temperature is very important to the Hwamei
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How to Care for Hwamei Birds During the Breeding Season: A Detailed Guide to Feeding and Management
Feeding and Management of Hwamei Birds During the Breeding Season: In the third month of spring, with gentle breezes and warm sunshine, a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred birds sing. The outstanding singer of the forest, the hwamei bird (Chinese hwamei, Garrulax canorus), once again begins to come into breeding condition and pair up. During the breeding season, hwamei birds are especially fond of singing, and their songs are particularly loud, melodious and varied.
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Key Points of Feeding and Management During the Molting Period in Hwamei Breeding
Feeding and management of the hwamei during the molting period: Like birds in nature, the hwamei molts once a year (those that molt poorly may molt twice), mostly during the 8th to 10th lunar month of the year (a few molt earlier or later), and the whole process ends after about 100 days.
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Prevention and Control Methods and Technical Key Points for Feather-Pecking Disorder in Captive Hwamei Birds
The so-called hwamei feather-pecking disorder refers to a small number of hwamei birds during ordinary keeping that, due to various causes, bite off their own tail feathers, wing feathers, back feathers and so on, one by one (sometimes called self-biting disease), so that the tail feathers are sometimes pulled until they are bare and sparse, curled
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How to prevent and treat head-turning disease, two-foot jumping and head-tossing disease in captive hwamei
Head-turning disease, two-foot jumping and head-tossing disease in the hwamei all belong to the same type of illness. Therefore they are discussed together. (1) Causes of head-turning disease, two-foot jumping and head-tossing disease in the hwamei: 1) The hwamei living in nature originally does not toss its head; it is because after being kept in a cage, its living environment has fundamentally changed, and especially because of man-made fright, the hwamei repeatedly makes the motion of starting to run and fly in the cage, and over time it develops the strange habit of head-tossing or head-turning. 2) After a wild bird enters the cage, it is fed too much food, and the cage cover cloth is sealed too tightly, so the bird does just one thing all day long, namely jumping about looking for a way out, and after a long time it develops this kind of illness. 3) When people take birds out for a walk, they often hang them in relatively high places, and below them people or animals often walk about, which makes the bird feel afraid and leaves it with this kind of strange habit.
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Methods for Preventing and Treating External Parasitic Diseases in Hwamei (Chinese Thrush) Breeding
I think many people are familiar with the hwamei. It is actually not especially cute in appearance, but because it has a line of white feathers above its eyes resembling an eyebrow, people named it the hwamei. The hwamei has excellent ornamental value, and many people who like keeping
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Methods for Preventing and Treating Self-Biting Feather Disorder in Hwamei Breeding
(1) Causes of self-biting feather disorder in hwamei: The main causes of self-biting feather disorder in hwamei birds: ① The hwamei is a bird that loves cleanliness very much, and the vast majority love bathing (also called washing). If the hwamei is not bathed on time or regularly, if the cage is not cleaned frequently, if the sand grains in the sand tray are not replaced, if the birdcage and cover cloth are not cleaned frequently, and if there are prolonged rainy days and other such reasons, then lice or mites will breed on the hwamei. Lice and mites parasitize the surface of the hwamei's body, and the entire skin will be affected, causing the bird's skin to itch and bleed. The hwamei is “helpless” against the lice and mites breeding on its body, so it has no choice but to bite its feathers to stop the itching and bite its feathers to “vent its anger.” ② Because the hwamei has long been imprisoned in a cage, or has long been ignored and neglected by people, it is lonely all day and has no choice but to protest to its owner by biting its own feathers. Keeping a hwamei is not only for appreciating its fighting, but also for appreciating its beautiful feathers. Bald or messy feathers are really not beautiful, so how can its ornamental value even be discussed? ③ Some hwamei develop self-biting feather behavior because the bird keeper fed them feed ingredients such as caoguo and star anise. ④ Some hwamei develop self-biting feather behavior because their food lacks a certain trace element for a long time.</p><p></p><p>(2) Symptoms of self-biting feather disorder in hwamei: Tail feathers and wing feathers are incomplete and falling off, curled and uneven, or of uneven length, or the feathers have already been pulled off and bitten to pieces. The tail is bald or there are no wing feathers, and the exposed areas are red, swollen, and inflamed.</p><p>(3) Methods for preventing and treating self-biting feather disorder in hwamei: Once a hwamei develops self-biting feather disorder, carefully and thoroughly analyze the cause and treat it according to the symptoms. For example: ① Bathe the hwamei on time, and regularly clean the birdcage, sand tray, and cover cloth. Once lice or mites are found on the bird, immediately adopt a method of treating both internally and externally to eliminate them. Insecticides such as Baichongling can be sprayed on the birdcage, sand tray, and cover cloth to eliminate external mites; use disinfectant diluted with water or water boiled with local tobacco stems to bathe the hwamei and eliminate the lice and mites on its body. Adjust the concentration of the local tobacco stem water as appropriate, and bathing 2 to 3 times is enough. If the hwamei's skin is already red, swollen, and inflamed, grind Zailin or Yinqiao tablets (powder) into powder, put it into the water cup, and let the bird drink it for 3 days, which can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. ② If the self-biting feather disorder is caused by the hwamei being neglected, immediately set aside time to play with the bird, persist in walking the bird every day, and give the bird the opportunity to move outdoors or in nature to relieve its loneliness. ③ Analyze the feed the hwamei has eaten recently to see whether it may be lacking a certain trace element or whether it has been fed foods such as caoguo. If no lice or mites have bred and walking the bird has been maintained, then it must be a feed problem, and the feed formula should be revised promptly or another feed should be substituted.</p>
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How to prevent and treat mastitis in nutria breeding
[Causes of mastitis in nutria]Mastitis is mostly caused by infection of the mammary tissue, such as traumatic infection from bites to the udder by the young, or the mother nutria having an abundant milk supply, causing the udder to become engorged, while the young have weak suckling ability or die, leading to long-term accumulation of milk and causing mastitis
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