How should turtledoves be raised? How to raise a baby turtle dove

At the very least, there should be a cage with clumps of meadows to keep warm.

A glass of water, change often.

If you are fodder, you are domestic, feed a little cornseed, biscuits, minced meat on it.

Do not put it outdoors and be careful of freezing to death at night.

It is best to place it on an indoor windowsill so that the bird can see the outside scenery so that he is not too agitated, and it can also give the bird a little ornamental value to your family.

After the nestling out of the shell, generally 6 hours to 8 hours have foraging behavior, the best food to choose millet or small, easily digestible food, can also use nestling pellet feed (1 kg 10 yuan), here we choose nestling pellet feed, the first week of each single turtle dove per day feeding amount of about 10g, the second week of each turtle dove per day feeding amount of about 20g.

After 2 weeks, you can feed a variety of plant seeds such as wheat, rice, and corn. Here we have instructed ourselves to prepare a feed formula according to the feeding preferences of the turtle dove: 50% rice, 20% corn, 20% wheat, and 10% earthworm.

The daily feeding amount of each turtle dove is about 30 g.

When raising turtle doves, it is necessary to provide enough space for clump fibers, and the bird cage must be spacious enough for the turtle dove to move freely inside. Keepers also need to ensure a comfortable and quiet living environment, hang the bird cage at a high place, and prevent cats and mice. In terms of feeding, it is generally enough to feed whole grains, and add health sand and cuttlefish bones to strengthen nutrition during the fixed bending period.

Wild turtle doves live outdoors for a long time and have a certain amount of wildness, which is generally more difficult to raise, especially the old wild turtle doves, so it is best to cut off the tips of their wings first to prevent them from flying away. There are also places where they like to be quiet and free, so don't keep them in a cage all the time and let them have a free and comfortable space.

Initial 1-3 days may not eat, you can use a black cloth to enclose the cage, one side of the gap to leave some space, and then put water and food into the cage, food can be corn, sorghum, millet, rice and other cereals, when they are hungry to eat, put food is best at night, so fast for a week, long for a month or more, and when people can approach the cage during the day to put things, turtle doves will basically not hit the cage, wild turtle doves are also difficult to raise relatives.

If you want to raise wild turtle doves, you must be mentally prepared first, and if you are impatient, it is better to release them. Wild doves also have a hobby of eating small stones, and they also like to play with them, so you want to nurture themselves better, put some small stones in the place where they live, the thicker the better, to help digestion. You must have proper drinking water, water is the source of life.

The wild dove is also an animal with great domestication ability, but everything has feelings, as long as you raise them for a while, you will know each other, even if you hit them with a stick, they will not go, just lean on your side.

Turtle dove embryo, now the turtle dove embryo ** can be said to have two channels, cage bird and artificially bred birds, cage bird is also called turtle dove down the mountain, belongs to the live bird, so when the wild turtle dove goes down the mountain, most of them will be afraid of people, so you should first find a quiet place to raise alone, in addition to changing the water, do not disturb it, try to use the cage to cover half of the cage, leave half.

The cage can be larger, but it does not need to be too big, otherwise the raw bird will be raised for a long time, and there may be a phenomenon of turtle doves pounceing on the cage, and the cage can not be placed on the ground, hanging on a place about 1 meter high, and the environment should be safe.

Generally, the head of the female turtle dove is round, relatively flat with the head of the male turtle dove, and in terms of feeding, you can feed some ordinary grains, such as sorghum, wheat, corn and beans, but you can not add too much each time, because the turtle dove has the habit of shaving, and at the same time, you also need to add some health sand and cuttlefish bones to ensure their nutrition and health.