The technique of raising native chicken under the forest

Woodland selection of native chicken woodland should be spacious and open, with a certain slope, but not too large, lush grass sources, convenient transportation, breeding drinking water. The breeding density per mu should not exceed 100.

The construction of chicken coop should be close to the grazing ground, and it is best to keep a distance of dozens of meters in the middle. A flock of chickens build a chicken coop and a chicken coop next to a pasture. Try not to get mixed up with each other. A perch should be built inside the henhouse, a 3-meter-high mobile board house should be built in the brooding house, and egg nests or egg boxes should be built in the hen house.

The choice of chicken breed is local native chicken or improved chicken breed with local chicken consanguinity. At least in appearance, it shows the characteristics of local chicken. Native chickens are raised under the forest, Roosters and hens should be raised separately, and be sure to keep in mind that male and female are mixed. The breeding period of cocks is about half a year, and that of hens is more than half a year.

Feeding and management should do a good job of disinfection and epidemic prevention, sweep the floor of the brooding house one week before entering the brood, and thoroughly disinfect the nestling house with parathion or caustic soda. You should pay attention to your diet when raising chicks. Three hours after the chicks entered the henhouse, they began to eat, feeding 6-8 times a day. After two weeks, reduce it to 3 times a day, and make sure you finish it every day. To control the feeding density, chicks within 2 weeks of age should ensure a density of 50-70 per square meter, and when they are 3-5 weeks old, the density should be controlled at 30 per square meter, which can be adjusted according to season and climate. Strengthen the temperature control, after the chicks enter the chicken house, the temperature of the chicken house should be strictly controlled to avoid the temperature rising and falling. Reasonable lighting, in 3-day-old chicks to ensure 24 hours of light, which is conducive to the rapid growth of chicks and improve the survival rate. Light should be guaranteed for 18 hours per day within 7 days of age. Natural light can be used after a week.

The best grazing period is from April to October, when Cordyceps sinensis is lush and enough natural feed can be eaten. Timely transfer to the greenhouse for breeding, when the chicks are raised for about 30 days, that is, when the weight is about 1 jin, it begins to be raised in the greenhouse. At the beginning, it is suitable for wild grazing, the time at the beginning of grazing is shorter, and then gradually extended, the scope is also from near to far, gradually expand the scope, so that chickens adapt to stocking. Build some simple sun shelters and place drinking fountains at the same time. The purpose is to help chickens to shade, rest, drink water and so on under high temperature, storm and other bad weather conditions, so as to reduce the loss caused by accidents to chickens. Fifth, the range of stocking should be strictly controlled, the density should not be too large, and the stocking area can be separated by screen. During the grazing period, the frequency of inspection should be strengthened to avoid the escape of chickens, which can effectively improve the utilization rate of feed.

Pay attention to the balance of nutrition allocation of chickens. In the chick stage, because its growth rate is relatively fast and closely related to the later growth, it is necessary to fill in timely and supply full-price broiler feed. In the later stage, with the conversion to grazing, the number of feeding should be reduced, from three to one.

Pay attention to the prevention of flock pecking and fowlpox. We can choose to cut off the beak of the native chicken at the age of 10-20 days. The method is to cut off the tip of the upper beak and the tip of the beak, and the lower beak to cut off the sharp end of the beak tip, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of beak fetish. Once it is found that there is a serious habit of beak, the beak can be trimmed twice. In summer, especially in summer and autumn, there are many mosquitoes and chickens are prone to fowlpox, so they should be prevented in advance.