Which breed of chicken should be chosen for raising chickens under the forest? What are the precautions?

Raising chickens under the forest is to make use of the land resources under the forest and the advantage of forest shade, and it is a new ecological breeding model for raising firewood chickens. It not only increased the added value of fruit trees and eggs, but also established a virtuous circle of mutual promotion and mutual benefit between laying hens and fruit forests. So which breed of chicken under the forest has good breeding benefit? What are the points for attention? Next, I will answer one by one for you:

There are many chicken breeds. Except for several large broiler breeds introduced from abroad, most small and medium-sized broiler breeds, broiler and egg breeds and laying hens can adapt to woodland breeding. Because the purpose of raising chickens in woodland is not only to meet people's needs for high-quality meat and eggs, but also to consider certain economic benefits. Therefore, it is necessary to choose some small and medium-sized broilers with short cycle and quick effect, and meat and egg breeds with relatively good economic benefits.

Here are a few varieties that are suitable for selection:

1. Green-footed chicken: produced in Guangxi, also known as Guangxi iron-footed chicken.

Appearance features: the appearance of remarkable features are: black feet, black mouth, feathers grow fast, hair color has ephedra, black and other different colors. The rooster has a red-feathered black tail, light black skin, short feet and a single crown. Sexual maturity is early, the rooster usually has a bright red crown for about 50 days, and begins to crow.

Performance: the weight of 70-day-old rooster and hen can reach 1900 grams and 1400 grams respectively. The average weight of 2.3 jin feed can be increased by 1 jin. However, higher requirements for feed nutrition, chicken stage diet crude protein content should reach 21%, metabolic energy 3000 kcal / kg, crude fat 4%, calcium 1%, phosphorus 0.6%; medium chicken crude protein 18%, metabolic energy 2900 kcal / kg, crude fat 4%, calcium 0.9%, phosphorus 0.7%.

two。 Chengdu Ma Chicken: produced in the counties around Chengdu, Sichuan.

The individual of the chicken is large, the coat color is mostly ephedra, and the mouth, feet and skin are light black. Its performance is slightly worse than that of green-legged chicken.

3. Taiwan black chicken: distributed in Fujian. Hair color and body black, medium size, fast growth.

4. Southern Shaanxi black chicken: it is distributed in all cities and counties south of Qinling Mountains. As the number of foreign improved breed chickens has increased year by year since the 1990s, because of its good production performance and high economic benefits, improved breed chickens have been widely used in many places, while local native breeds have been completely eliminated. At present, except for the existence of populations in some mountainous areas, it is difficult to find in most of the areas of Sichuan Province. Our county is one of the counties that retain more native chickens in Ankang area at present. According to investigation, there are a large number of native chickens in remote areas of Taishan Temple, Longwang, Tangping and other townships, and the existing native chickens in individual village groups basically have no foreign consanguinity, so they are pure local native chickens.

As there are many black chicken strains in southern Shaanxi, their appearance features are different, and their coat colors are also very miscellaneous, including pure black, pure white, yellow, hemp, flower (bamboo spotted chicken), as well as single crown, double crown, strawberry crown, bean crown and so on. However, pure black black skin and black bone chicken are the most representative, so attention should be paid to species preservation and purification and rejuvenation.

There are many farmers engaged in seedling planting in our country, raising chickens under the forest has achieved good economic benefits. Because this mode of integration of planting and breeding can not only earn more money for farming, but also kill insects and weeds and kill many birds with one stone. Of course, raising chickens under the forest does not just drive the chickens directly into the woods and let them grow on their own. there are also six points to pay attention to:

1. Pay attention to the use of pesticides: in some orchards or seedling plantations, farmers usually spray pesticides in order to prevent diseases and insect pests, which is very destructive to raising chickens under the forest. Therefore, farmers should try to choose good varieties of seedlings to reduce the use of pesticides; if pesticides must be used, try to use pesticides with high efficiency and low toxicity, and it is best to spray the forest in stages.

two。 Pay attention to supplementary feed: raising chickens under the forest does not completely allow the chickens to find food in the wild, but also needs to provide feed, of course, it all depends on the abundance of food that can be eaten by the chickens under the forest. If there are more weeds and flies, less feed should be added at night; if the insects, flies and weeds under the forest are not enough for chickens, they should be supplemented at noon and at night.

3. Pay attention to dangerous animals: there may be dangerous animals such as rats and snakes under the forest, which is more harmful to raising chickens. In some places, there may also be weasels and eagles, which pose a greater threat to chickens. Farmers can guard against these dangerous animals by setting up fences in grazing places, increasing light at night, and training dogs to protect chickens.

4. Pay attention to the protection of fruit trees: whether fruit trees or seedlings should be well protected, after all, the chicken's claws and mouth are very powerful, and there is a certain ability to fly high. Therefore, the trees should be well protected, otherwise it will not be cost-effective for the chicken to peck the fruit, leaves, skin and so on.

5. Pay attention to the flock training: the main purpose of the training here is for the chickens to return to the henhouse by themselves in the evening. Usually, raising chickens under the forest is not suitable for chickens to live outside, but chicken coops should be built, even if simple, there must be a shelter from the wind and rain. Farmers should train chickens to return to their nests in the evening since they were young.

6. Pay attention to the light in the chicken coop: as mentioned in the third point, increasing the light can drive away dangerous animals. In addition, adding light to the chicken coop at night can also attract some insects from the forest to become midnight snacks for chickens.

Under the guidance of the national poverty alleviation policy of agricultural industrialization, mountain farmers rely on their own forest open land, barren mountains, wasteland to vigorously develop under-forest chicken farming, the development of under-forest chicken industry is extremely rapid, the prospect will be unlimited.