Analysis on the living habits and feeding points of Black Chicken

Black chicken is also known as black-bone chicken, five-claw chicken, silk chicken, bamboo chicken, etc., because of its origin in Taihe County, Jiangxi Province, it is also known as Taihe chicken. Black chicken is a traditional precious Chinese medicinal material, famous at home and abroad, internationally known as "pearl in birds."

1 Characteristics of Black Chicken

Black chicken belongs to birds, gallinaceous order, pheasant family. It is a small chicken, small head and short neck, chin has beard, white feathers, in addition to the two wings and tail feathers for arrow-shaped feathers, the whole body for velvety fine hair. Males are mulberry-shaped purple-black round crowns with a tuft of fine hair behind the crown; females have white pompoms on top of their heads. There are many fine hairs on both cheeks. Claw points five toes, metatarsal hair more and more dense. Black chicken is named for its black eyes, beak, tongue, skin, meat, bones, toes, viscera and fat.

The value of 2 chickens

Black-bone chicken is a valuable traditional Chinese medicine. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has long been recorded: black-bone chicken nature Gan Ping, non-toxic, treatment of weak fatigue, benefit maternal. It is clinically recognized that black-bone chicken has the functions of tonifying liver and kidney, benefiting qi and blood, and retreating deficiency heat. It is a good medicine for treating weak diseases and gynecological diseases. In addition, today's medical practice has proved that Wuji has good curative effects on tuberculosis, heart disease, gastric ulcer, chronic hepatitis, neurasthenia, infantile rickets, etc. Black chicken eggs can cure headache, dizziness, asthma, nephritis and other diseases. Black chicken bone soaked in wine can activate blood circulation and expel wind. Black chicken hair boiled water wash body, can relieve itching, and treatment of urticaria.

3 Living habits of black chickens

Black chicken is small in size, adult cock weighs 1.0~1.5 kg, hen weighs 0.75~1.00 kg. Temperament is docile, adaptability is strong, house raise, captive raise and stock can be. Black chicken eggs weigh 35~45 grams and produce about 100 eggs per year, up to 130 eggs per year. Black chickens have strong nesting characteristics, and they stop production every 20 or so, so their natural hatching ability is stronger than that of ordinary chickens. Chickens weigh 27~30 grams, cold resistance, moisture resistance ability is poor, so brood period needs careful management. Chicken houses should be dry, ventilated, insulated, quiet and hygienic. Black chicken has the habit of sand bath, the chicken house must be set up sand bath tank, in order to clean feathers, help growth and development.

4"Feeding Points of Black Chicken

4.1"Feeding points in brood period

Chickens must be kept warm when they hatch. The optimum temperature was 35℃~36℃ at 1 week old, 32℃~34℃ at 2 weeks old, and 2℃ lower every week thereafter. The temperature could be removed at 5~7 weeks old. Chicks 2 days old, such as the discovery of one-third of the chicks with beak pecking phenomenon can be opened to feed. Feed cooked millet for the first few days and mix it with cooked egg yolk. The amount of egg yolk can be 1 per 18 chicks per day. After 7 days, mixed feed was fed, mainly semi-ripe grain, supplemented with vegetables, fish meal and vitamins. The density of brood was about 17 per square meter. Drinking water should be sufficient and clean. Warm water should be fed at the initial stage. One thousandth of potassium permanganate should be added to the water.

4.2"Feeding points during laying period

To keep the air in the chicken house fresh, humidity appropriate, provide adequate and clean drinking water. During the laying period, keep 16~17 hours of light every day. When the light is insufficient, it should be supplemented manually. The ration should adopt compound feed, including fish meal 10%, bean cake 10%, grain flour 20%, corn flour 30%, sorghum 5%, rice bran 7%, shell powder 2%, auxin 1%, green feed 15%, and adopt dry and wet combination feeding method. 4 - 5 times the day before 4 months old. During the laying period, green and juicy feed should be properly fed to prevent laying hens from being over-fat. Adding manganese salt properly can improve egg production and egg quality.

4.3"Propagation and seed selection

Cocks can breed at 6~7 months old, hens at 10 months old are best, and can be used for 3~4 years. We must select the excellent individuals with five characteristics: double crown, green ears, white velvet, five claws and black. Incubation can be in spring and autumn, but it is better to incubate in spring. Roosters require robust, sexual characteristics are obvious, hens require more eggs, nest sex is poor. When the ratio of cock to hen is 1∶6, higher fertilization rate can be obtained, and the hatched chicks are also healthy.

4.4"Prevention and control of diseases

Although black chicken has strong disease resistance, it should also adhere to the principle of early prevention without disease and early treatment with disease. Clean the chicken house every day, remove feces, pay attention to moisture; disinfect once a week, scrub and disinfect the food trough every 3~5 days, and do not feed moldy and rotten feed.