Ring-necked Pheasant Chick Breeding Techniques and Rearing Precautions

Ring-necked pheasants need a regular supply of water and feed every day, with clean and sufficient drinking water kept available at all times, and careful observation, so that diseases are promptly isolated and treated with medication; the pens should be cleaned every day and the pheasant house kept as dry and clean as possible. So some people will ask: how do you raise ring-necked pheasant chicks? What do we need to pay attention to during the breeding of pheasant chicks? Let's take a look together.

How to raise ring-necked pheasant chicks

1. Reasonable lighting program: the production of commercial pheasants has no strict requirements for the lighting program, but breeding pheasants must have a reasonable lighting program formulated. During the brooding stage, the general principle to follow is: light can only be reduced, not increased; use dim light and avoid strong light; the lighting time must not be too long or too short. 1 to 3 days: 24 hours of light; 4 to 7 days: 20 hours of light; the 2nd week: 19 hours of light; the 3rd week: switch to natural light.

2. Beak trimming: to prevent the occurrence of feather pecking in pheasants, beak trimming is often carried out. Generally, beak trimming is done 2 times, the 1st at around 10 days of age, and the 2nd at around 10 weeks of age. A beak trimmer, electric soldering iron or scissors can be used to burn and then remove 1/2 of the upper beak and 1/3 of the lower beak, trimming and cauterizing at the same time to prevent bleeding. Before beak trimming, vitamin K can be added to the feed or drinking water, and some sedatives can also be added to reduce stress.

Pheasant chick breeding techniques and precautions

1. Pheasants have strong adaptability and a wide distribution; pheasants can be found in almost every region of the world. Pheasants have the habit of small-range vertical migration with the change of seasons: in summer they perch in shrub thickets at the edges of mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests at higher altitudes, and in autumn they move to lower-altitude, wind-sheltered and sunny places. Pheasants have a very mixed diet, mainly plant-based, and like to eat young shoots, seeds, fruits of plants, as well as beans and grains, and occasionally prey on insects. Pheasants have a small food intake and prefer small, frequent meals.

2. Pheasants have poor wing flight ability and are not good at flying; often after a few rises and falls they can no longer take off. Pheasants are good at running and jumping. Pheasants reach sexual maturity at 10 to 11 months and begin to reproduce. The peak breeding period of pheasants is from May to June, with two clutches per year, 10 to 15 eggs per clutch, egg weight 25 to 28 grams, mostly light yellow and oval-shaped.

3. It is absolutely not allowed for the box to be damp: the straw in the box should be changed frequently, and another cardboard box should be used in rotation; the cardboard box previously used should be dried in the sun to ensure the inside of the box is dry and not damp, preventing the chicks from getting sick or suffering from ammonia and carbon monoxide poisoning.

Common disease prevention and control techniques for pheasants

1. Pullorum disease is an acute, septic infectious disease caused by Salmonella. It causes white watery droppings, a hunched body, drooping wings, poor spirits and loss of appetite; the mortality rate of those suffering from this disease is particularly high.

2. Prevention and control: intestinal antibacterial drugs can be added to the drinking water of pheasant chicks as prevention; the dosage for treatment is 0.04%, with 4-5 days as one course of treatment, then stop for 2-3 days before using again, and use 4-5 times in this way.

3. Newcastle disease can occur all year round, and is especially severe in spring and autumn. In acute cases, pheasants drool from the beak, have drooping wings and paralyzed legs. Prevention and control: for pheasant chicks 1-3 weeks of age, dilute Newcastle disease vaccine strain II at 1:10 and use a syringe to drop 2 drops into the nostrils or eyes. At 13-17 weeks of age, inject young pheasants with strain I vaccine.

The economic benefits of pheasant farming

1. Whether pheasant farming is actually profitable still needs to be analyzed. Let us calculate based on an ordinary entrepreneur introducing five groups of wild pheasants; each group has four female pheasants and one male pheasant. Raising them in this way for one year can produce at least the following number of pheasants: the annual egg production of a pheasant is calculated at one hundred eggs per bird.

2. Assuming that the qualification rate of the breeding eggs that can be hatched is 95%, and the probabilities of fertilization, hatching and survival are all 85%, then the annual pheasant output is: 20 female pheasants × 100 eggs/year × breeding egg qualification rate × the probabilities of fertilization, hatching and survival all 85% = 1166 pheasants. The profit of pheasants on the market varies from high to low; we calculate based on the current average market profit of 15 yuan per pheasant; then the profit brought by the five groups of pheasants is: 1166 pheasants × 15 yuan = 17490, which is more than 17 thousand yuan.

Ring-necked pheasants have wide adaptability, and the rearing methods can be varied; the most commonly used is indoor pen raising. For raising commercial pheasants, the indoor dark intensive rearing method can be used; for egg-laying breeding pheasants, indoor group free-range raising, a combination of indoor housing plus outdoor shed, or three-dimensional cage raising can be used, with the same rearing results. So everyone needs to pay attention to these points!