The amount of baking soda consumed by chickens

Baking soda, also known as sodium bicarbonate, when making steamed bread, Youtiao and other food at home, often mix baking soda into the noodles, steamed bread and other food will be more fluffy. Baking soda is also used when raising chickens, but many people do not know how much baking soda is used in the process of raising chickens. Let's take a look at how much baking soda is consumed by chickens.

What is the amount of baking soda consumed by chickens?

The amount of baking soda consumed by a chicken mainly depends on what it is used for, and it varies with different uses.

1. Effect of invigorating kidney

When chickens have kidney swelling caused by overdose, spotted kidney, or spotted kidney caused by excessive feed protein, and kidney swelling caused by ventilation, baking soda can be used to clear the kidney, usually 2/1000 to 3/1000, drinking water for 8 hours. When there is a high death rate caused by spotted kidney, more than 6/1000 is used clinically, and the effect is better.

2. Neutralize stomach acid

When chickens have adenomyogastritis and excessive gastric acid secretion, you can use baking soda to drink water with a dosage of 2/1000 to 3/1000 for 6-8 hours, which can effectively neutralize stomach acid.

2. Application of baking soda in chicken breeding.

1. To improve production performance, baking soda can neutralize gastric acid to dissolve mucus, reduce the concentration of digestive juice, and has the effect of invigorating stomach, inhibiting acid and increasing appetite. Adding 2/1000 to 3/1000 sodium bicarbonate in the diet can increase the fertilization rate of breeding eggs by 4% to 5%, and adding 2/1000 to 5/1000 sodium bicarbonate in the diet of 2-week-old broilers can increase the weight by 5% to 6%. Adding 0.3% to 0.5% sodium bicarbonate in the diet of laying hens can significantly increase the laying rate, increase the eggshell thickness by about 6%, and reduce the breakage rate of eggs.

2. The high temperature in summer is easy to cause metabolic acidosis in chickens. Adding sufficient amount of sodium bicarbonate to the feed can eliminate this effect and balance the buffer of blood. The results showed that when 3/1000 to 5/1000 sodium bicarbonate was added to the feed during heat stress, the disability rate of chickens was half lower than that without sodium bicarbonate.

3. To regulate the acid-base balance in the body, the acid-base balance in chicken mainly depends on the buffer system, and sodium bicarbonate is the most important part of the buffer system.

4. Reducing the incidence of ascites in broilers adding 1% sodium bicarbonate to the corn-soybean meal diet can alkalize the diet and significantly reduce the incidence of ascites in broilers.

5. Reducing the occurrence of chest cyst in broilers in feeding practice, using sodium bicarbonate instead of part of salt can reduce the amount of drinking water and improve the sanitary quality of padding. After the quality of padding was improved, the incidence of toe erosion and chest cyst decreased significantly.