What kind of food does bamboo partridge mainly eat?

The bamboo partridge was originally a wild bird that combines meat, ornamental and medicinal value. It has tender meat and performs well in all aspects. It is artificially raised in some areas. So what is the main food for bamboo chickens? Let’s learn more about it below.

What kind of food does bamboo partridge mainly eat?

Wild bamboo partridges use bamboo buds, leaves and shoots as their main food source. Through their foraging behavior, they not only promote the prosperity of bamboo forests, but also effectively control the number of small animals such as insects, lizards and snakes, maintaining the ecological balance between predators and prey in the bamboo forest.

Artificially bred bamboo chickens can be fed with corn, wheat , vegetable leaves, mealworms, weed seeds, etc., or they can be fed with feed . The formula is 42% corn flour, 30% wheat flour , 17% soybean meal, 5% fish meal, 4% stone powder, 1.5% trace elements, 0.2% rock salt, and 0.3% additives. In addition, add 20 grams of multivitamins for every 100 kilograms of feed, feed 30-35 grams per day, feed 3 times per mesh, and feeding fresh maggots can increase egg production.

Is bamboo chicken easy to raise?

Bamboo partridge is a wild protected animal. We should protect wild bamboo partridges. If you want to eat them, you should eat artificially farmed ones. When raising bamboo chickens artificially, they cannot be free-range like ordinary chickens and can only be kept in pens. Therefore, there is no way to save food like raising ordinary chickens. However, by raising insects and earthworms as food for bamboo chickens, food expenses can be reduced to the greatest extent to maximize profits. Moreover, bamboo chickens raised in this way have higher nutritional value, are healthier, and are more popular with consumers.

Bamboo chicken breeding skills

1. Rearing conditions

If you raise bamboo chickens in the wild, you need a poultry house and a playground so that they can eat and rest quietly, fly and move around, and they need sufficient light. The recommended stocking density in the house is 15 per square meter.

2. Daily management

The drinking water should be fresh and sufficient, and the air in the house should be fresh. Catching bamboo partridges should be done at night after the lights are turned off, using a flashlight to illuminate and catch them one by one. Catching bamboo partridges during the day will cause the entire flock to fly away, causing severe stress and even death.

That’s it