What are the advantages of raising chickens under the forest?

Raising chickens under the forest usually runs a chicken farm in a forest zone 300,000m away from the countryside. On the premise of not destroying vegetation, it is recommended to carry 50 chickens per mu, with 1000 chickens as a unit, and then in the center of the forest belt or choose to sit north and south in an appropriate position to build a simple chicken coop, the roof is made of straw, asphalt paper, asbestos tiles and other materials, the roof columns are made of wood strips, and the walls are surrounded by corn stalks or plastic bags. The cost of the chicken house with this structure is low, and the cost of raising 1000 chicken sheds (about 50 square meters) is only about 500 yuan, which is 50% lower than that of the traditional chicken coop.

Low feed nutrition standard, low feed consumption and low feed cost.

The chickens of 1 ~ 42 days old in the forest were fed with full price feed, and the chickens after 41 ~ 60 days old were changed to transitional feed, adding 25% rice, corn and wheat; 61 ~ 100 days old, 40% full price feed was added on the basis of raw grain; 101 ~ 150 days old, all were fed with raw grain and agricultural by-product feed. Its advantage is that the average raw grain is about 1.8 yuan per kilogram, and the full price is about 2.7 yuan per kilogram. The feed cost of each chicken can be reduced by about 3.6 yuan in 61 to 120 days. Chickens are kept in broad forests and can freely feed on grass, forage seeds, insects and trace elements to supplement some of the nutrients needed to reduce feed costs.

It can reduce pathogen pollution and improve the survival rate of chickens.

When raising native chickens under the forest, we generally choose high-quality native chicken breeds. Chickens walk freely in the fresh air woodland, maintain enough exercise, help to enhance the disease resistance of chickens. Because the chicken house under the forest is simple and crude, the building materials of the chicken house are easy to move, which is generally moved every 2-3 years, so as to avoid the source of disease as far as possible, and there is less pollution. Raising chickens under the forest can reduce the incidence, especially respiratory diseases, colibacillosis and Newcastle disease, which greatly improve the survival rate. Through the summary of the survival rate of some domestic underforest chicken farming, the highest is 96.8%, the lowest is 91.3%, and the average is 94.9%.

Native chicken meat is of high quality and high price.

The native chicken raised under the forest is of high quality, delicious taste and high market price. Because the native chicken raised under the forest walks under the broad forest all day, it is also called walking chicken. Secondly, the native chicken raised under the forest is free to feed on insects and grass, coupled with the use of grain after 60 days of age, so that the native chicken has the advantages of thin skin, strong meat, tender and smooth, delicious, close to the native chicken raised by farmers. The market price is generally 1422 yuan per kilogram, which is 40% and 50% higher than that of caged chickens.