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Pigeon coop at the farm of Mr. Bui Van Cu. |
At commune of Nhon Ly peninsula (Quy Nhon city), there are two pioneers in commercial pigeon breeding: Mr. Bui Van Cu and Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga. They started the breeding 6 months ago and have reaped primary successes since then.
With the positive results gained, they find confident to invest more for enlargement of the pigeon flock sizes.
Mr. Cu says: “After visiting many places to learn experiences of breeding pigeons, I find that it is quite easy to keep the birds. It isn’t time-consuming and low cost business which is promisingly profitable. So, I venture loans on the bird breeding”.
At first, he bred 10 couples of Australian doves as experiment. After 6 months, the flock size enlarged to nearly 50 parent couples. Each couple of this kind lays 8-9 times/year, each time 2 eggs. Squabs were often sold when they are 350-400grams in weight. The Australian pigeons had advantages of well resistance to diseases, high rate of survival, easy adaptation to new climate conditions.
Breed selection plays the most important role in efficient domestic rearing of pigeons, says Cu. It had better to choose the avian animals which have thick and smooth feather at abdomen, no malformation and vivacious outer-appearance.
The coop should be spacious, airy and ventilated, having roofs and nests for female birds to lay eggs. It must be cleaned regularly. Food for the poultry is simple, including beans, rice, corns, mash, cold cooked rice, etc.
The feathers also need to be fed with industrial food as source of mineral and vitamin supplements. The Australian doves rarely get diseases. Drugs for their disease treatment are sold quite available at markets.
Commercial pigeon breeding doesn’t require much investment. On the other hand, it brings quick capital recovery and quite big profits. Parent pigeons are sold at 250,000-400,000 VND/couple depending on breeds. 10-day-old squabs are sold at 70,000 VND/couple. After deducting the costs, Mr. Cu gets 50,000 VND/couple in profit.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga used to breed chickens, ducks and pigs and suffer big losses whenever there were epidemic outbreaks. Finding easy to rear and sell the pigeons, she decided to rear the commercial avian animals. At present, there are 60 couples of parent pigeons in her family farm.
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