Why do pigeons eat dirt?

Birds' digestive system can't digest food, so they need to swallow some things like sand, so that the sand can grind food and make the body absorb food nutrition-this is why pigeons swallow soil.

Pigeons live on plant food. Corn, rice, wheat and sorghum in cereals, peas, mung beans, broad beans and miscellaneous beans in beans are all good feeds. Cereals can account for 2/3 and beans for 1/3.

During the feeding period, the content of protein in feed can account for about 65,438+08% for breeding pigeons and 65,438+05% for young pigeons, and sand, salt, minerals and multivitamins are properly mixed.

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The daily management of pigeon breeding is mainly to pay attention to the hygiene and cleanliness of farms and pigeon cages. Under normal circumstances, it is cleaned once every two to three days and thoroughly disinfected once every half a month. The second is to take measures to prevent pigeons from escaping and causing unnecessary losses.

When breeding, it is necessary to prepare for disease prevention in advance. The most common diseases are pigeon Newcastle disease and pigeon pox, and targeted vaccines should be used for injection.

The dosage should be determined according to the pigeon age, and the disease should be isolated in time to avoid infecting other pigeons.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-pigeon