Do pigeons recognize people?

Pigeons have a strong memory and even a strong conditioned reflex. For those who often take care of it, get close to it and remember it.

If they are treated roughly at ordinary times, it will often be detrimental to feeding management. Pigeons are also habitual animals. It takes some time to get used to it if you want to change your original living habits.

Therefore, routine feeding management procedures and environmental conditions should be fixed in pigeon feeding management.

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Feeding mode:

1. Pigeons are mainly fed with miscellaneous grains, such as wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, corn, peas, mung beans, pockmarked seeds and peanuts.

At least two kinds of feed should be mixed when feeding, such as wheat, corn and sorghum in peacetime 3, pea 1, wheat, corn and sorghum in training 3, pea 1 and pockmarked 1.

2. Besides miscellaneous grains, we can also supply green feed and mineral feed such as vegetables, cabbage and wheat seedlings. Mineral feed can be bought from carrier pigeon associations all over the country. It can also be matched by itself, which generally meets the needs of homing pigeons.

3. The mineral feed is prepared from, for example, 3 parts of yellow mud and yellow sand, 2 parts of hydrated lime, 1 part of salt, 0.5 part of shell powder or eggshell powder and 0.5 part of charcoal, which are crushed, mixed with water, kneaded into balls and dried, and the balls are broken and placed in pigeon houses during feeding.

4. Feed twice a day, once at around 7: 00 in the morning and at around 4: 30 in the afternoon 1 time, with the feeding amount in the morning accounting for 1/3 of the food intake and the feeding amount in the afternoon accounting for 2/3 of the food intake. The daily feeding amount of each adult pigeon is about 50g, which can be increased appropriately during training.

5. Pigeons can be called back to their homes after being grounded and fed, so that they can form a conditioned reflex to return to their homes, and there is food, which is conducive to homing.

6. During pigeon training and competition, feed more corn and peas, water first, and then feed. You can feed glucose water first, then light salt water. In summer and during the incubation period of young pigeons, appropriate amount of salt can be added to drinking water.

7. Pigeons love clean birds, so we must pay great attention to the cleanliness of pigeon houses. We should take a bath at least twice a week in summer and autumn and once a week in winter.

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