Partridge Farming: Precautions and Prospect Analysis

As living standards continue to rise, more and more people have taken a liking to eating game. The partridge is currently a highly popular food; its meat is tender and delicious with a unique flavor, and it is often in short supply on the market. The number of partridge farmers is also steadily increasing, so what are the precautions for partridge farming? What are the prospects like?

I. Precautions for Partridge Farming

1. Site construction

Partridges can be raised in livestock sheds, poultry houses or open-air systems. However, in areas with relatively large temperature differences, it is best to use enclosed housing for partridge farming. If the farming scale is relatively large, you can invest in setting up an intensive factory to raise partridges. The farming site must be equipped with brooding setups, warming equipment, drinkers and feed troughs and other equipment.

2. Daily farming conditions

(1) Lighting: When partridges are 4 to 7 months old, use natural lighting; after 7 months of age, use artificial lighting, maintaining 16 hours of light per day to promote the reproductive function of partridges and increase the egg production rate. The duration and intensity of light must not fluctuate longer or shorter, higher or lower, otherwise egg production will be affected.

(2) Temperature: The suitable temperature for partridge egg production is 15 to 25 degrees; if it is higher than 30 degrees, egg production and the fertilization rate will be affected. When it is lower than 5 degrees, the shed needs to be heated, and the temperature must not be lower than 8 degrees.

(3) Environment: The surroundings where partridges are raised must be kept quiet, so that the partridges are not startled, which would affect their growth and egg production. The colors of the keepers' work clothes, water troughs, feeders and so on must all be fixed.

(4) Feed: After partridges reach 4 months of age, they are basically already mature; feed them layer feed with 17% protein. The daily feeding amount for female partridges is between 24 and 28 grams; coarse feed can be appropriately added to the feed, and after 5 months of age the coarse feed is removed.

(5) Disease prevention and control: When partridges are 6 months old, they need to be vaccinated with the Newcastle disease, infectious bronchitis and egg drop syndrome triple oil-emulsion vaccine, and dewormed once. Once every 2 months, prevent blackhead disease once, and pay attention to diseases such as infectious coryza.

3. Feeding and management of partridges

If they are wild partridges, most of their time and energy will be spent on searching for food. But because domestic partridges have abundant food, they have a great deal of time and energy with no outlet, and often fly about in the cage or indoors and peck and kill one another; pecking and killing is the greatest threat in partridge farming. The causes of partridges pecking and killing one another are generally overcrowding, insufficient food or drinking water, and temperatures and humidity in the partridge shed being too high or too low.

At present there are temporarily no effective measures to deal with partridges pecking and killing one another; generally comprehensive preventive measures are adopted. For example, effectively controlling the stocking density of partridges, controlling the temperature and humidity in the shed, keeping the light in the shed soft, ensuring feed and drinking water, and making sure the feed troughs and water troughs have sufficient length.

II. Farming Prospects

At present, partridges generally start laying eggs at 6 months of age; from hatching to reaching 1 jin takes only 80 days, so the farming speed is very fast. The farming cost is also relatively low: the feed for 20 chickens can raise 100 partridges, and the price of partridges is considerably higher than that of chickens. Judging from the current market situation, the current price of partridges is 16 yuan per jin, and the feeding cost is about 4 yuan per bird, so the profit is still relatively high. Moreover, the current farming range and sales range of partridges are constantly expanding, and the farming prospects are excellent.

The bones of partridges are very thin, and the meat yield is very high; the meat is rich in protein and trace elements, and is loved by many families. The prospects for partridge farming are also very considerable, and farming is relatively easy.