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 year by year.
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| French pigeon breeding model of Mr. Le Van Thanh's family in village 5, Hoi Son commune. Photo: Huyen Trang |
Mr. Thanh said: French pigeons are easy to raise, have high resistance, are disease-free, reproduce quickly and are easy to consume. Breeders need to arrange the cage in a high, airy, quiet place, ensuring it is protected from rain and wind, and 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.
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| Each pair of pigeons is raised in a separate cage. French pigeons start to reproduce after 6 months of raising them. 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 he built was sturdy, clean, covered with corrugated iron roofs and surrounded by B40 steel mesh. Inside, the coops were divided into two rows, each row had two floors, each floor was divided into 24 small cells equipped with feeding troughs, drinking troughs, egg-laying nests and incubation nests.
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| 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 each month giving birth to 30 pairs of baby birds, 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 direction, concentrated in the communes of Phuc Son, Hoi Son, Binh Son, Thach Son. According to the assessment of the breeding households: Pigeons are a type of animal that can easily adapt to the rural environment, anyone can raise them, have high economic efficiency, and a large consumer market.
Pigeon droppings can also be used as very effective fertilizer for crops, so expanding the above model will help create jobs, increase income for farmers, and at the same time provide a safe food source with high nutritional value, meeting consumer needs.
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