How to keep a pet chicken

Chicken has been a kind of artificially fed poultry since ancient times, and its main function is to eat and lay eggs, but now some people also raise pet chickens, so how to keep pet chickens?

First, the living habits of chickens

The chicken is a kind of poultry of the pheasant family and the original chicken genus, which comes from the wild original chicken, and its domestication history is at least 4000 years. China is the first country in the world to raise chickens, with a history of at least 4,000 years. Chicken bones or pottery chickens from more than 4,000 years ago are found in Hubei, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Gansu and other provinces.

The cold resistance of the chicken is poor, the body temperature of the newly hatched chick is 3 ℃ lower than that of the adult chicken, and it takes 10 days to reach the normal body temperature. In addition, the chicken fluff is short and thin, so it can not protect against the cold, so it is not strong to adapt to the environment, so it must rely on artificial heat preservation before the chick can grow and develop normally.

Chicks for 1-30 days should be kept warm and kept in a clean and hygienic environment. Chicks for more than 30 days are basically full of feathers, so they don't have to keep warm. High body temperature and rapid development.

Second, how to keep pet chickens?

1. Need to prepare a pet chicken nest, which can be made in cartons or foam boxes

2. When choosing pet chickens, you need to choose chicks that are lively and active and look healthy.

3. The chicks can be fed with millet, vegetable leaves and rice soaked in water, and chicks can be fed other different foods when they grow up.

4. In the process of breeding, we should also pay attention to preventing diseases.

Among them, the main diseases are:

1. Fowlpox

It is an acute and contagious infectious disease of chickens, which is characterized by the occurrence of acne rash on the hairless or hairless skin of chickens, or the formation of fibrous necrotic pseudomembrane in the mucosa of mouth and throat, which can easily cause serious consequences to young chickens.

2. Chicken pullorum

Salmonella pullorum is an infectious disease caused by Salmonella pullorum. Its excretion is an important vector and can also be transmitted vertically through eggs. Main symptoms and pathological changes: chicks do not eat feed, afraid of cold, curled up, sagging wings, depressed spirit or lethargy, white thick or yellowish, light green and thin stool, and the anus is sometimes closed by hardened feces, making it difficult to breathe.