Can anyone tell me how to raise a myna?

Myna birds are quite common in the market, so the price is very average, and they are suitable for family breeding. Myna birds can not only learn languages, play with their owners, but can also be used to fly.

As for the raising and releasing of starlings, I will talk about my own raising and training methods.

1. Choosing chicks:

I like bold mynas. It would be better if my friends could choose Yuhachi (just a personal opinion).

How to choose brave mynas that I personally think are excellent:

a. For novice friends, it is recommended to buy chicks that are 15 to 20 days old and observe when the bird seller is feeding them. , compete for food, it is better to have a strong demand for food, the mouth should be round and big, and the voice should be loud. Choose eight like this.

b. After choosing the bird, don’t take it away in a hurry. Check carefully whether the area around the bird’s eyes is clean, whether the nostrils are clear, and whether the feathers near the butt are dry and clean. Let Xiaoba Hold your fingers and feel the strength of the eight claws to see if the myna's claws are intact.

Some friends are blindly pursuing the five-white starling. I personally think that such a starling is difficult to find, so it’s better not to have this intention. After the birds moult, they are all the same.

2. Feeding:

After taking it home, pay attention to the insulation work of the chicks. Put shredded toilet paper in a slightly smaller paper box, and the paper box must have holes. , for ventilation. Putting it under the sun can warm up the carton, but don't let the starlings be exposed to the sun for a long time, which is bad for the eyesight. In the future, when the starlings grow up, they should often bask in the sun, which is beneficial to the bird's calcium absorption.

The feed I raise for starlings:

Chicken feed is mainly used. For the chick stage: add an egg yolk to the feed, soak it in warm water, wait until it cools to room temperature, and knead it into a ball. Feed the starlings two at a time. The size of each one is half to two-thirds of the size of your thumb. Before feeding, moisten the throat of the starlings with a brush dipped in water. This will help the starlings swallow the feed.

After growing up, feed is still the main food, usually more fruits and vegetables, such as apples (cut in half or diced), green cabbage leaves, tomatoes, watermelon, etc., and lean meat twice a week. Don't feed too much at one time. Birds must be raised extensively, and if they are fed too well, they will not live long, haha.

Bathing instructions for baby birds:

After one month, that is to say, after taking Xiaoba home and raising her for nearly 20 days, when all the cut feathers have grown, she gave birth to her baby for the first time. Getting into the water is generally not that smooth, so you can use a method: put the myna in the sun until the myna's mouth opens wide, then release the myna and put water in a basin (all year round) All you need to do is use tap water. Myna's adaptability is still very strong.) If you keep stirring your hands in the water, myna will jump in curiously. If the first bath doesn't work, don't worry and continue the next day.

Things to pay attention to in daily life:

Do not let the starlings blow air after taking a bath.

If the food or water in the food cup is contaminated by bird feces, Replace it immediately.

On summer nights, do not put myna in a room where mosquito coils are lit or sprayed with mosquito repellent.

Hang the bird as high as possible to prevent Cats and children do anything detrimental to myna.

Do not bathe myna with warm water in winter, as this will make it easier for myna to catch a cold.

Give myna sufficient sunshine time, because there is enough sunshine. Sunlight is beneficial to the myna's absorption of calcium and is very helpful for the color of the bird's feathers.

If the myna has cold symptoms such as sneezing, don't rush to take medicine. Observe it for a day first. The medicine is three-part poisonous. .

Don't scare mynas with sticks or anything like that if you do. It will take a lot of effort to build a good relationship again in the future.

There are many things to pay attention to when raising birds. I will briefly list the above ones.

3. Training before release:

a. Let the myna become familiar with the owner’s voice:

In fact, this is very easy to do. It needs to be done regularly and quantitatively every day. Feed Ba, call Ba by his name every time you feed him (you should give it a name after you buy it home, right?

Intensive training:

Conduct indoors, Close the doors and windows, and the family can coordinate training. The owner first hides in a place, and the family releases the myna (it is best for the myna to be hungry for one to two hours first). The owner starts to call the myna's name, and the myna will look for the owner. Food, because I have been hungry for two hours. Haha, as long as the myna finds you, give a small amount of food as a reward. It is best to use the myna’s favorite food, such as lean meat, mealworms, etc.

The myna trusts its owner:

The myna is still released from the cage, but you can ask a friend (don’t ask your family to help) to catch your myna on purpose, and then you call the myna’s name at this time. The myna will fly to your shoulder or hand. At this time, you can "retreat" your friend. Your friend can take a few steps back. If you train like this, the myna will generally not leave you very far.

Note: Even if the myna can eat by himself in the future, he should be fed with his hands more often.

b. Hands-on training for the myna:

Wait for Xiaoba. When it is 25 days old, release the cage, call it by name, and let it take your hand. If it doesn't know how to do it, you can put your hand under the myna's chest and slowly lift it up, and the myna will automatically If it jumps up, feed Ba at this time. If you practice a few times, the myna will naturally come to your hand.

Note: Never grab your Ba with your hands, even if it doesn’t listen to you. ! !

C, the myna’s cage training:

Put the cage on the ground, open the cage door, and hold the myna’s favorite food, such as mealworms, Put it on the door of the cage and say the command "come in, come in". After attracting the myna's attention, quickly put your hand behind the cage door. At this time, the myna goes in and immediately closes the cage door. Training can achieve the effect.

4. Outdoor training for flying:

Familiar with the environment:

Take the myna often to a certain place (that is, prepare to fly often in the future. (place), this place must have certain requirements: there should not be many cats, dogs and other animals, it is best to be in an open square or park, and there should be no high-rise buildings or woods nearby.

5. Officially start in the wild. Release:

Start the myna for two to three hours in advance so that the myna is completely hungry. Open the cage door. The myna may come out cautiously at first. Don’t rush. If it doesn’t come out on the first day, Continue on the second day, and the third day... it will come out one day. After the myna comes out, conduct hands-on training in the wild. Call the starling's name. After getting started, you can only give a small amount of food, and then the owner gently Put the myna on the ground, and the owner will immediately step back a few steps (5 meters away), and the myna will immediately fly towards you. At this time, you stretch out your hand, let the myna stand on your hand, reward it with food, and then back away further. ,………… Repeat this kind of training, and you can’t let the myna leave your sight for a long time.

Note: It is best to raise two starlings, one in a cage and the other released, and let them fly in cycles. This will be guaranteed.

In fact, the release of starlings is to put it bluntly, starlings are hungry. If you want the birds to be obedient, you can only use starving methods. The method I mentioned also has obvious effects on training wild birds (tried it last year).

As for the supply of feed throughout the year, let me talk about my method:

In spring, the earth returns to spring, and external objects revive. After a winter of feeding, myna returns to normal. For This is the case for Xiongba, because the starling is about to enter the breeding period, so the feed at this time should be fruits and vegetables, with the purpose of reducing sex. You can feed two to three apples, pears, etc. in a week. Feed 2 to 3 peanuts every day. The peanuts should be cut into slices with a knife, then crushed by hand and put into the feed.

In summer, after the artificial decline in spring, the feed should be mainly light, fruits, vegetables, etc. When the temperature is high, the myna can be bathed twice a day to ensure that the myna does not suffer from heat stroke.

In autumn, birds begin to store fat, that is, fat, in preparation for winter. At this time, it is necessary to increase the proportion of oily food, feed more peanuts, meat, and relatively less fruit. Make sure the starlings gain enough weight to survive the winter.

In winter, feed less fat food, only half of the amount in autumn. Do not let the starlings become too fat in winter, which will be detrimental to the sexual performance of the starlings in spring.

After summer begins, the starlings will enter the moulting period. At this time, the starlings must be given adequate water baths. If the starlings do not want to be washed, do not force them. Increase the amount of vitamin-rich foods such as fruits and calcium. , because the myna consumes a lot of energy during the moulting period.

About my bold ideas and practice on the method of teaching language with myna:

Because I am still studying, my time to teach language during the day is very limited, so I almost always teach at night. Professor's. Because I once thought of the way I memorized classical Chinese in high school: I read classical Chinese at night and I was very familiar with it, but I stuttered when I recited it. But as long as I read it a few times the next morning, I could almost memorize it. This is also The reason why I memorized so quickly in high school.

So I borrowed my method of memorizing at night to teach myna to speak. As of the time of posting, my myna can already say clearly:

Hello. HELLO. May you be happy and prosperous. May all go well with you. In the beginning, human beings are inherently good. Hey, shua, shua, smile, hahaha. I really despise you (taught by my classmate). Welcome. Happy New Year. Have a meal. sleep. What are you looking at? kindness? What to see? Thanks. goodbye. As well as learning how to whistle I taught both ends of it to imitate bird calls.

I usually tell the myna at night that if the myna is not honest in the cage, I will put my hand in, let it stand on my hand, and then whistle (not a rogue whistle) , imitating the whistle of a bird), so that the myna will be honest, and then I will talk to the myna, repeating sentence by sentence, about 5 seconds apart. Just teach it for 20 to 30 minutes in the evening. When it starts to talk the next day, the owner should hide out of sight of the myna and speak loudly the sentences taught last night. In this way, my myna's speaking effect is still good. of.

I hope this recipe of mine can be of some help to friends who are eager to help myna learn to talk. This is my method, and it may not be suitable for every myna. After all, this is my first year of teaching myna how to speak, and I am only teaching it tentatively.

When I was in high school, my Chinese teacher told us that the best time of the day for people to have the best memory is from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. at night. I base this on this To teach starlings, maybe the memory time of us humans is different from that of birds.

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