How to make native chickens lay more eggs in winter

The egg production of native chicken is low or even stopped in winter. How can we increase the egg production of native chickens? Some key points are introduced as follows:

First, add heat preservation and lighting facilities to cover the wind barrier around the chicken house, keep the floor clean, cover the grass, paste the doors and windows at the same time, put down the straw curtain at night to keep warm or ignite to heat up, so that the room temperature is always above 10 ℃. If you raise a small number of native chickens, you can drive them back to the house at night.

Second, to strengthen the management, there should be a playground outside the chicken house, and rest stands should be set up in the chicken house, and the breeding density should be 5 per square meter. Before releasing the chickens in the morning, you should pay attention to adjust the temperature difference inside and outside the house to prevent the chickens from catching cold. Usually to feed hanging food, that is, feed high, in order to promote its exercise, help digestion, strong chicken body. Persist in lighting for 13 to 14 hours a day, and turn on the electric lights when the natural light is insufficient. In winter, it is appropriate to increase the number of feeding times, so that less frequent feeding, feeding 3 to 5 times a day, to ensure that each chicken is fed fully, which is not only conducive to its own heat production, but also conducive to weight gain.

3. The local chicken's egg laying rate can be increased by about 18% and its disease resistance can be enhanced by adding 30 grams of 60 degrees of liquor to each kilogram of feed with liquor mixture.

Fourth, feed diversification of native chicken concentrate feed should be corn, sorghum, wheat bran, etc., green feed should be carrots, cabbage, spinach and so on. In the local chicken laying period, but also feed some bean cakes, corn flour, shell meal, fish bone meal and other protein and mineral feed, and ensure adequate drinking water every day.

Fifth, make full use of feed additives to add 0.05% choline chloride, 0.15% methionine and appropriate amount of natural yeast to the feed to increase the laying rate of native chickens by 3%.

Sixth, do a good job of disinfection and epidemic prevention and often clean the feces and sundries of the chicken house, change the bedding regularly, and usually pay attention to disinfecting with sue water and feeding Chinese herbal medicine, or drinking water with 0.5% potassium permanganate solution.