In what season do poultry chicks usually hatch? How to divide the male from the female? What should we pay attention to in feeding? What are the breeding techniques?

A chick is the cub of a chicken, hatched from eggs. It grows on fodder and vegetables, bugs and broken rice. Chickens are the most common poultry raised by human beings. In what season do the chicks usually hatch? How to divide the male from the female? What should we pay attention to in feeding? What are the breeding techniques? I learned from Uncle Hu, a broiler, that natural hens usually begin to hatch their chicks in spring, because the temperature gradually rises and the food increases gradually; after the chicks hatch, they have enough food, and the temperature is not too low. Improve their survival rate.

How do chicks divide male and female?

1. Look at the chicken's ass

As a matter of fact, the birth of a chick is the best opportunity to judge sex, but it is a pity that we have been buying the chick for some time, and the original obvious sex symbol has shrunk. Here we can see whether the chick's buttocks and pelvis are narrow or not. If it is not a hen, the hen's pelvis is wide enough to lay eggs.

2. Look at the appearance

A rooster is bigger, heavier and majestic than a hen. In the chicken stage can show these characteristics, a litter of chickens together, bigger, heavier, eat more and more fierce is often the rooster.

Compared with a rooster, a hen has less round eyes, a small body and a gentle character.

Look at the size of the head

How to distinguish between male and female chicks, what do chicks think of male and female? The proportion of the head of the rooster is large, and the head is also heavy. If you can't see that you can turn the chicken upside down with its feet (only for larger chickens, don't carry chicks) the hen can lift its head, but the rooster can't, so you can judge the size of the head, and the heavy one is the rooster.

4. Look at the feathers

The cock changes hair more slowly than the hen, especially when the tail and the hair on the wings are as big as a chicken, the feathers of the hen are already very plump, and the rooster may still be semi-bald. Many people think that the chicken is sick, but it is actually determined according to the sex of the chicken.

Another way to judge is to look at the chicken's tail feathers when it grows slightly. The feathers of the hen are round and the feathers of the rooster are pointed.

5. Touch the chicken

Often when touching a chicken, the hen is more docile, while the rooster struggles in every way and pecks people. But this can not become the standard of judgment, may encounter a man-like hen, the correct way is to knead the chicken, the stronger is the rooster, the rooster has a more vigorous metabolism, the yolk absorbs more, and the handle is more tough, while the hen has delicate feathers and a good feel.

What should be paid attention to in chicken feeding?

1. Poor cold resistance. 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 sparse and cannot keep out 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.

2. High body temperature and rapid development. The general body temperature of chicken is between 40.8-41.5 ℃, so it must be raised in a cool and ventilated environment with warm winter and summer. In addition, chicken has short digestive tract, exuberant metabolism and rapid growth and development, so it is necessary to feed nutritious and digestible feed to meet the needs.

3. The resistance is weak. Chicks, in particular, are vulnerable to harmful microorganisms. Therefore, in addition to doing a good job in the cleaning and hygiene of the environment, we should also do a good job in prevention. For example, outsiders are strictly prohibited from entering and leaving the henhouse, the environment and cages should be disinfected, and all kinds of chickens should be vaccinated regularly.

4. Easy to be frightened. The chicken is timid, especially the chicks are easy to panic, the light ones are crowded, the growth and development are hindered, and the heavy ones trample on each other to cause disability and death. Therefore, raise chickens in a quiet place. Rough management, sudden noise, intruding by dogs and cats, capture and so on can all lead to chicken riots and affect growth.

5. Afraid of dampness. Chickens should grow in a dry and ventilated environment. If the environment is humid, some pathogens and molds are easy to grow and reproduce. If the chicken coop is damp, the chicken manure will ferment to produce toxic gas, making the chicken easy to get sick.

What are the techniques of chicken breeding?

(1) start eating

The newborn baby pheasant is called feeding for the first time. 24 hours after it comes out of its shell, the baby pheasant is fed with corn or chopped rice and evenly sprinkled with warm water in a plastic sheet or shallow feeding trough. On the second day, they were fed with 2x3 cornmeal or chopped rice, and on the fourth day, all of them were fed with full price feed for one month. After that, it can be fed with self-made feed for 2 months.

(2) boiled water

After the chicken comes out of the shell, the drinking water for the first time is called boiled water. in general, after the chicken comes out of the shell, 1/10000 potassium permanganate solution can be given as boiled water for 3 hours and drink for 3 days. After disinfecting the intestines, the regular water can be used as drinking water. The drinking water should be clean and the sink should be cleaned frequently to keep it clean.

(3) Kaiqing

The young pheasant is called Kaiqing for the first time. After the chicks are 2-3 days old, they can start to feed clean and chopped green fodder, which can account for about 10% of the total feed mixed into the diet, or can be fed alone, not too much, to prevent diarrhea, with the growth of age, can gradually increase to 20-30%.

(4) eating meat

The young pheasant is fed with animal feed for the first time, which is called carcass. The chicks can be fed with steamed broken eggs (one egg for every 100 young pheasants) and mixed in the feed for the first few days. After 7-10 days of age, 3-5% high-quality fish meal (light) can be mixed in the feed to meet the nutritional needs of the growth and development of young pheasants.

(5) feeding times

At the age of 1-3 days, they were fed 6-7 times a day, 5-6 times a day after 3-7 days of age, 5 times a day at 7-30 days of age, and 4 times a day after 1 month of age.

(VI) temperature, density, light and ventilation

1. Temperature and humidity regulation: the suitable temperature for brooding is 35-34 ℃ at 1-3 days old, 33-32 ℃ at 4-7 days old, 31-28 ℃ at 2 weeks old, 27 ℃ at 3 weeks old, 23-22 ℃ at 4 weeks old, and maintain normal temperature after 5 weeks. The relative humidity is 65% Mel 70% at the age of 1-10 days, and 55% Mel 65% after the age of 11 days.

2. Density: with the change of age, its body weight and water consumption will also change accordingly, so the feeding density should be adjusted timely to increase the number of water and trough. The density of net cage or box-type brooding is 50-60 per square meter at the age of 1-10 days and 30-40 per square meter at the age of 10-20 days, then it can be transferred to a three-dimensional cage (4-layer cage for egg pheasant rearing), 20-30 eggs per ten thousand meters at the age of 21 days, and 10-20 birds per ten thousand meters at the age of 43-60 days.

3. Light time control: the light requirements of the young pheasants are not too strict. The chicks keep 24 hours of light in 1-3 days and 20 hours in 4-7 days. After that, they turn to natural light according to the feeding conditions of young pheasants. When transferred to the three-dimensional cage before and after 3 weeks, full light should be added in the first night, so that the young pheasants can adapt to the new environment as soon as possible, and it is appropriate to use 3 watts per ten thousand meters. After most of the pheasants eat and drink, they can use natural light.

4. Ventilation and indoor environment control: poor indoor air circulation and excessive concentration of ammonia will directly affect the growth and development of quasi-chickens, and can induce chronic respiratory diseases, eye diseases and other diseases. Should be regular ventilation, keep indoor air fresh, timely removal of feces, cleaning the floor, maintain a suitable temperature, regular disinfection with chickens, timely evacuation density. To improve the indoor environment is one of the important measures to improve the survival rate of young pheasants.