Causes of feather pecking in farmed broilers

When raising broilers, farmers often find the phenomenon of pecking hair for the following reasons:

1. Infect parasites. If you raise chickens, the cushion is relatively wet, and even the naked eye can see all kinds of parasites in the cushion. Chickens are susceptible to parasitic lice, which is bound to cause itching and pecking.

2. There are not enough buckets and drinking fountains. There is a chicken household raising 1500 broilers over 25 days old, and there are only 11 buckets and 8 drinking fountains in the henhouse; chickens eat crowded and do not drink in time, which is easy to peck feathers.

3. High feeding density. There is a chicken farmer, there are more than 1400 30-day-old broilers on the ground, occupying only 70 square meters of chicken house area, with an average of more than 20 chickens per square meter; the density is too high, the activity of chickens is restricted, the air is dirty, and the temperature increases, resulting in 40% of the chickens pecking feathers.

4. Feed nutrition is out of balance.

Under the condition of market economy, in order to save the raising cost, many chicken farmers raise chickens after adding corn to the full price feed, and the proportion is not small, even more than 50%. As a result, the diet loses its full price, and the proportion of proteins, amino acids and trace elements necessary for poultry is no longer reasonable, because more than 80% of chicken farmers peck at hair for this reason.