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How to raise newly hatched turtledoves?

When the chicks are just hatched, they should be kept warm and given drinking water in time. Use a 20,000th concentration of potassium permanganate solution as drinking water and change it every 4 hours.

Generally, chicks will start looking for food 6 to 8 hours after hatching. It is best to choose small, easily digestible food such as millet or broken rice. You can also use chick pellet feed. After one week, 20% of plants such as barnyard grass and rice can be added to the feed.

Due to the high density of artificial breeding, turtledoves are susceptible to diseases, so the cages should be cleaned regularly, disinfected regularly, feces cleaned up in time, and epidemic prevention should be carried out regularly. Sick birds should be isolated and treated, dead birds should be buried or burned, and all birds in the cages should be disinfected.

Additional information:

The main types of turtledoves are:

1. The fire dove is small, with a gray-brown head and neck, stained with wine, a black half-collar on the neck, and a white front end. The male has a grayish head and pinkish lower body, brownish-yellow wing coverts, black primary flight feathers, and a grayish-blue tail feather with white feathers and outer tail tips. The female is lighter and darker, with a dark brown head and less red body feathers.

2. The upper body feathers of the mountain dove are mainly brown, the head and neck are gray-brown, dyed with wine brown; the forehead and top of the head are gray or blue-gray, and there is a black feather with blue-gray edges on each side of the base of the neck. The edges of the shoulder feathers are reddish brown, the upper back is brown, the lower back to the waist are blue-gray, and the tip of the tail is blue-gray.

3. The male and female spotted doves are the same color, with a slightly longer tail, and the outer tail feathers are very wide at the front end. The flight feathers are darker than the body feathers, and the body feathers are mostly gray-brown. The obvious features are black patches with white spots on the sides of the neck, orange-yellow irises, dark brown beaks, and purple-red feet.