How Much Does a Hwamei, the King of the Laughingthrushes, Cost and How to Keep One, Plus a Top-Secret Feed Formula

The hwamei, many friends have only heard the name, but know very little about it. The hwamei is the city bird of Guangzhou and a bird species native to China, with a melodious and pleasant song, and it can also protect forests and guard the home, so it is welcomed by many breeding farmers. So how much does a hwamei cost? What does a hwamei eat? What kinds of feed are there for hwamei? How do you keep a hwamei?

1. How much does a hwamei cost?

Hwamei are divided into fighting birds and singing birds. Fighting birds are more expensive, with a market price ranging from 800 to 4000 yuan each; these are relatively good breeds, and the most expensive top-tier fighting birds commonly cost over ten thousand. Singing birds are cheaper, with a market price of about 20 to 50 yuan each, suitable for beginners to choose. Most hwamei on the market are within one or two hundred yuan, and keeping them is rather troublesome and requires extra care.

It should be noted that when choosing a hwamei, the price is mainly judged by the bird's song.

2. What does a hwamei eat?

Hwamei mainly eat insects, and also eat beans, plant fruits, tender grass, weed seeds, and so on.

During the hwamei's breeding season, it pecks at large numbers of forest pests to fill its belly. For example, moth larvae, locusts, scarab beetles, and so on. In addition, hwamei also eat plant-based food. In the non-breeding season, because there are fewer forest pests, hwamei peck at various plants and store food for the winter. For example, corn seedlings, wild strawberries, wild fruits, plant seeds, and so on.

3. What kinds of feed are there for hwamei? How do you mix it yourself?

Besides larvae and plant fruits, hwamei kept at home can be given feed you mix yourself. Mung bean flour, eggs, soybean flour, fish meal, shrimp meal, corn flour, and carrot powder are all feeds that can be mixed for hwamei in daily life. They are mainly mixed with eggs and clean water. In summer, soybean flour is the main ingredient, and in winter, mung bean flour is the main ingredient. You can also add minced beef to the feed as a combination of vegetarian and meat ingredients, making the nutrition even richer.

Feeding is generally the same as for other birds, three meals a day, but remember to provide plenty of clean water for the hwamei.

4. How do you keep a hwamei?

1. When a hwamei is a young bird, it needs more care from its owner. Generally, hwamei bought from the market are no longer young birds; they have already lived in the wild for eight or nine months, so they are relatively hard to tame, and you need to be one hundred percent patient in teaching them well.

2. The hwamei has a good voice, but its personality is also very stubborn. It has high demands for its environment, and in a strange environment it easily develops a competitive and combative mindset. You can choose to take it out during your daily morning exercise, hang the birdcage on a tree, and let the hwamei show off its singing voice. After it slowly adapts to the environment, then open the cage cover.

If it encounters another of its kind, remember never to open the cage cover; the hwamei has an innate wildness and disputes are easily triggered.

3. Only after the hwamei and you have become increasingly close can you start learning to fight. At the initial trial stage, you can only focus on practice and must not rush for success. The hwamei is rather competitive, and if it loses a match right at the beginning, it is very hard to boost its morale and unnecessary losses may be caused. In choosing opponents, we should choose hwamei of comparable strength, so that the potential strength of both sides can be stimulated, and the hwamei can forge ahead and win the match.

The above is the hwamei-related knowledge compiled for you by the editor; I hope you get along happily with it in life.