Anh Son farmers raise French pigeons with good income

(Baonghean.vn) -Raising French pigeons is a new model being applied by many people in Anh Son district and brings in a good income.

French pigeon breeding model of Mr. Le Van Thanh's family in village 5, Hoi Son commune. Since 2014, Mr. Thanh invested 20 million VND to build a barn and went to Bac Giang to buy 30 pairs of French pigeons to raise. Thanks to building a barn, good care, and proper techniques, his family's flock of pigeons has increased gradually over the years.

French pigeon farming model of Mr. Le Van Thanh's family, village 5, Hoi Son commune. Photo: Huyen Trang

Mr. Thanh said: French pigeons are easy to raise, have high resistance, are less susceptible to diseases, reproduce quickly and are easy to consume. Breeders need to arrange the cage in a high, airy, quiet place, ensuring protection from rain and wind, the main food is corn and rice.

French pigeons start to reproduce after 6 months of raising, a pair of pigeons can lay 7-8 litters a year. With 200 pairs of pigeons of breeding age, each month Mr. Thanh's family has about 150 pairs of pigeons, both for breeding and meat.

If calculating the price of a pair of breeding birds currently sold for 350,000 VND, the price of meat birds is about 120,000 VND/pair, then each month after deducting expenses, Mr. Thanh earns 5 million VND.

Each pair of pigeons is raised in a separate cage. French pigeons start to reproduce after 6 months of raising, a pair of pigeons can lay 7-8 litters a year. Photo: Huyen Trang

Mr. Hoang Xuan Tu's family in village 4, Hoi Son commune also raises French pigeons industrially. Mr. Tu said: Initially, he bought 25 pairs of breeding pigeons to raise. Because he knew how to apply the correct technical process, after 5 months of raising, the pigeons did not lose any weight, developed well and gave birth to their first brood. He decided to keep all the baby pigeons in the first year for breeding.

Mr. Tu added: on an area of ​​50 m²The pigeon coop was built by him firmly, cleanly, with a corrugated iron roof, surrounded by B40 steel mesh. Inside, it is divided into 2 rows of coops, each row has 2 floors, each floor is divided into 24 small cells equipped with feeding troughs, drinking troughs, egg-laying nests and incubation nests.

Industrial pigeon farming model of Mr. Hoang Xuan Tu's family, village 4, Hoi Son commune. Photo: Huyen Trang

Currently, Mr. Tu's number of parent birds has reached 70 pairs, on average producing 30 pairs of baby birds each month, with a selling price of 80-100 thousand VND/pair annually, bringing a good income for Mr. Tu's family.

Currently, in Anh Son district, there are dozens of models of raising French pigeons and regular pigeons in an industrial manner, concentrated in the communes of Phuc Son, Hoi Son, Binh Son, and Thach Son. According to the assessment of the breeding households: Pigeons are a type of pigeon that is easy to adapt to the rural environment, anyone can raise them, have high economic efficiency, and a large consumer market.

Pigeon droppings are also used as very effective fertilizer for crops, so expanding the above model will help solve employment, increase income for farmers, and at the same time provide a safe food source with high nutritional value, meeting consumer demand.

Huyen Trang