METHOD OF INTRODUCTION OF ARTIFICIALLY REARED BIRDS TO WILD LIFE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A01K67/00 

FIELD: veterinary medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method of introduction of artificially reared birds to wild life comprises performing lekking, egg laying, and brooding eggs until hatching of chicks, feeding them and release into their proposed habitat with their mothers. For introduction the tetraonidae birds are used, such as birds of species of Siberian spruce grouse or capercaillie. Females intended for reproduction obtain natural food, such as pine needles, berries, twig food, arthropods, along with technology feeds, such as grain mixture, combined fodder, premix. Lekking, egg laying, and brooding eggs in nests with use of females until hatching is performed in aviaries. The chicks after hatching from eggs and before their introduction into the wild life are fed with live food in the form of insects that wild chicks of this species eat in the natural environment. Introduction of brood of chicks in wild life is carried out in the age of 1-3 days after hatching from the eggs directly from the aviaries with their mothers or after their transportation to the permanent habitat. And the female and brood of chicks are transported in different cages without visual contact with the ability of sound communication, and before the release of chicks and female in wild life, they are placed in one adaptational cage in which the female settles down and takes its chicks under it for heating, after which the cage is opened and the brood with the female goes away freely to the selected area of terrain, which enables to adapt to natural environment.

EFFECT: use of the claimed invention enables to improve efficiency of introduction of tetraonidae birds.

3 cl, 4 ex