Technical methods of free-range chicken farming in mountainous area Management method of free-range chicken under forest

Many people who work in cities do not have a good future, causing some people with ideas to return to their hometowns and start their own businesses. When it comes to farming and entrepreneurship, free-range chickens are currently a hot entrepreneurial breeding project, so how to raise and manage mountain free-range chickens? Next, let's learn about it with the editor.

Technical methods of raising chickens in mountainous area

I. site selection

Whether the site selection of free-range chickens in mountainous areas is appropriate or not is related to the health and epidemic prevention, the growth of chickens and the work efficiency of the breeders, as well as the success or failure and benefit of raising chickens. The following principles should be followed in site selection:

1. It is not only conducive to epidemic prevention, but also convenient transportation.

2. The site should be in a place of Gaolang, dryness and good drainage.

3. Shading equipment should be provided in the venue to prevent sunstroke or catching cold in the rain.

4. The site should have water and power supply, and be enclosed to prevent getting lost and bringing in germs. Shelter from the wind and the sun, a grassy slope with flat terrain and no stagnant water. It is better to have trees so that the chickens can enjoy the cool in the shade.

Second, the method of building a shed.

The design requirements of the chicken house are: ventilated, dry, hot in winter and cool in summer, and the seat should sit north to south. The general shed is 4-5 meters wide, 7-9 meters long, 1.7-1.8 meters high in the middle and 0.8-0.9 meters high on both sides. It is usually covered with three layers of linoleum, straw and film from the inside to the outside to provide waterproof and thermal insulation. Press the film linoleum with sand, brick and stone on both sides of the roof and at one end, and open an entrance and exit at the other end to facilitate the entry and exit of breeders and chickens. The main bracket of the shed is fastened in four directions with wire to prevent the storm from overturning the shed.

Third, clean the shed for disinfection

After each batch of chickens are out of the pen, the chicken shed should be thoroughly cleaned, the surface soil on the ground should be replaced, and the cleaning tools should be used. The floor and appliances in the shed were first sprayed and soaked with 3% Muir 5% Lysol aqueous solution, and then fumigated, with 25 ml formalin and 12.5 grams of potassium permanganate per cubic meter of space. The grassy hillside where chickens were originally raised should also be sprinkled with a layer of hydrated lime on the ground before spraying and disinfection.

Management methods of free-range chickens under the forest

1. Determine the reasonable stocking density and time.

According to the growth of vegetation under the forest, 20-50 chickens can be stocked per mu. If the density is too high, the underground vegetation will be seriously damaged and difficult to restore. Generally, about 2 hours after the start of natural light, the chickens are raised in the woodland. in case of low temperature, the release time of chickens needs to be postponed, and chickens can be released early in summer when the temperature is high.

2. Signal training of field stocking

Signal training begins after the end of brooding, and after 2-3 weeks of training, chickens produce a conditioned reflex. In order for chickens to form a stable conditioned reflex, this signal must be carried out at a relatively fixed time or during supplementary feeding. The training signal is mainly used for feeding and gathering chickens, which is generally used in the evening. In small woodland stocking can be used to knock boards, call and other ways, woodland is larger usually use whistles, its sound is sharp, spread more far, conducive to management.

3. Zonal stocking

Divide the forest into 4-6 plots, let the chickens in one plot for 3-4 days, change to the next, that is, adopt the method of rotational grazing, which is beneficial to the restoration of vegetation and the control of epidemic disease.

4. Supplementary feed

Chickens in the stocking stage should make full use of wild feed resources such as grass, insects and grass seeds. in order to ensure sufficient green feed in the stocking stage, some sites are selected to plant winter forage, alfalfa, clover and other forages or crops every year for chickens to feed after harvest. Wild feed is an important food for stocking chickens, but because its nutrition is not comprehensive, it is easy to cause lack of nutrition, so a certain amount of compound feed must be used for supplementary feeding. In order to ensure the growth of chickens to meet the requirements of pollution-free green food, do not use ingredients other than nutritional additives when preparing supplementary feed. When wild feed resources are abundant, 30-50g/d? Only, when the wild feed resources are insufficient, the supplementary feeding amount is 50-80g/d? Only. The replenishment time is usually carried out when the chickens enter the henhouse in the evening, according to the proportion of 30 chickens in a box, determine the number of boxes, and put them on the ground in front of the henhouse.

Summary of raising chickens under the forest

Raising chickens in the forest is also called raising chickens in the woodland, which is a way of raising chickens indoors for a period of time and then putting them into the woodland after they are out of temperature. It is basically similar to the traditional chicken raising model in the vast rural areas of our county, except that it is more scientific and standardized in feeding and management.

Raising chickens under the forest has three advantages: first, there is a large space in the woodland, good air, conducive to health, and fewer diseases; second, there are abundant weeds and insects in the woodland, and adding some food to the chicken can reduce the feed cost; third, the chicken has a large amount of activity in the woodland, which increases muscle toughness, reduces moisture, delicious meat and good palatability.

With the increasing demand for poultry products in the market, people are no longer interested in caged or captive broiler products, and the mainstream of consumption has shifted to local native chickens. Judging from the market sales throughout the country, the sales prospect of free-range native chickens is promising.

Our county is sparsely populated, rich in woodland resources and without any industrial pollution. It is a natural treasure land for the production of "green" food and has superior conditions for raising chickens under the forest. Two years later, the "Western Han" highway will be completed, which will provide convenient conditions for the outward transportation of livestock and poultry products. Therefore, the development of chicken farming under the forest will become a major industry in our county in the future.

Nutritional value of free-range chickens

1. Compared with the broiler chickens we raise, the meat of woodland free-range chicken is stronger, the meat structure and nutrition proportion are more reasonable, and the woodland free-range chicken is rich in protein, trace elements and various nutrients, and the content of fat is relatively low. it has important value for our human health. It is a meat product that we Chinese prefer, and it belongs to high-protein meat.

2. Free-range chickens in woodland are rich in amino acids, which play a very important role in human body. they are the most basic substances that make up our body proteins and are related to life activities. it is the basic unit of protein molecules in organisms, is the basic substance of our life, and has a close relationship with human life activities. It is an indispensable nutrient in our human body. These nutrients in free-range chicken in woodland are of great significance for the growth and development of our human body.

As mentioned above, I believe you have a certain understanding of the technology of free-range chicken raising under the forest. In fact, if free-range chickens are well managed, the profit is higher than that of captive chickens, because captive chickens greatly save feed costs, and free-range chickens are more popular than captive chickens.