What Chinese herbal medicines are commonly used in pheasant farming?

Atractylodes lancea (bai zhu)

It has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as pheasant chondropathy and keratomalacia. Adding 3%-5% Atractylodes lancea powder to chicken feed, along with an appropriate amount of calcium, has a good preventive effect on infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngitis and infectious rhinitis in pheasants.

Pine needles

Pine needles are not only rich in nutrients but also contain phytoncides. Adding 3%—5% pine needle powder to pheasant feed can increase the egg-laying rate by about 8%, raise the daily weight gain by about 20%, save 5% of feed, and significantly improve the disease resistance and the fertilization and hatching rate of pheasants.

Mugwort leaves

Mugwort leaves are pungent and bitter in taste and warm in nature, and have the effects of preventing miscarriage, dispelling cold, reducing dampness, regulating menstruation and stopping bleeding, and can also prevent a variety of diseases. According to practical reports: adding a certain amount of dried mugwort leaf powder to pheasant feed can promote blood circulation, improve metabolism, and enhance growth and reproduction in pheasants, and has obvious effects on improving pheasant meat quality, reducing feed consumption and increasing feed utilization. The preparation method: add 2% mugwort leaf powder to pheasant feed. In this way, for every 1 kg of weight gain in pheasants, feed usage can be reduced by 0.8 kg.

Licorice

Adding 3% licorice powder to pheasant feed has a good effect on preventing and treating pharyngitis, bronchitis, pullorum disease and rickets in pheasants.

Dandelion

Adding 2%—3% dried dandelion powder to pheasant feed can strengthen the stomach, increase appetite, promote the growth of pheasants, and also increase the egg-laying rate by 12%. Adding 3%—4% dandelion powder to the basal diet of pheasants has a preventive and therapeutic effect on digestive tract and respiratory tract diseases in pheasants.