Free Breeding Technique of Native Chicken in Barren Mountain

With the rapid development of economy, people's living standard is improving day by day, the diet structure has also undergone great changes, and the demand for meat quality is getting higher and higher. in the past, broilers have been unable to meet the needs of people. more and more consumers pursue rural native chicken products with pure flavor, delicious meat, safety and health. Raising native chicken in Huangshan Mountain is not only small in investment, simple and easy, but also helpful to improve the quality and flavor of chicken. According to many years' working experience and the investigation of barren mountain chicken farmers, and combined with the local actual situation, the author summarized the main points of raising native chicken in barren mountain for reference.

Chicken farm construction

1, site selection: choose a certain area of hills, mountains, woodlands, grassy mountains and other barren mountains, barren slopes, away from major traffic roads and residential areas, but also have clean and adequate water sources.

2. the construction of a simple chicken coop: the topography of the chicken coop should be high, it should be leeward to the sun, and it is appropriate to sit north to the south. In order to reduce the investment in fixed assets, a simple shed with steel pipe structure can be built, and a thick 5~10cm bedding can be laid in the chicken house for the chickens to rest. Vents and doors and windows had better be installed with barbed wire to prevent the invasion of birds and animals.

Variety selection

Local native chicken breeds can be selected, because of their small size, sensitive response, lively and active, good gregariousness, can adapt to the local climate environment, and strong disease resistance, suitable for stocking. In addition, the native chicken has pure flavor and delicious meat, which meets the requirements of the public.

Feeding and management

1. Feeding and management during the rearing period: formulate reasonable immunization procedures according to the epidemic situation of local chicken diseases, and then do a good job in vaccination of Marek's vaccine (chickens are immediately vaccinated as soon as the chicks come out of the shell), Newcastle disease vaccine, infectious bursal disease vaccine and so on. After the chicks entered the nursery, the brooding temperature was controlled at 35-36 ℃ in the first week, and then decreased by 2-3 ℃ per week, which could be removed at the age of 4 weeks. The chicks were given water and food on time, ofloxacin and dysentery were added to the drinking water at the age of 1-5 days to prevent white dysentery, and albendazole, avermectin and anti-coccidiosis were added to the feed from the 10th day of age to prevent coccidiosis. Chickens like to be dry and afraid of dampness, so the control of humidity is very important (excessive humidity, it is easy to breed pathogenic microorganisms). It is recommended to adopt online brooding; if brooding is taken on the ground, bedding materials should be added and replaced regularly, and all of them should be cleaned and thoroughly disinfected at one time after de-heating.

2. Feeding and management in the breeding period: the native chickens in the breeding period are mainly fed with green feed and properly supplied with concentrate. As long as the weather is fine, the temperature is suitable, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is not too large, you can put the chicken on the open space in front of the shed and let it move and eat freely, so as to maintain the natural flavor of the native chicken. At the same time, do a good job of chicken training, can be in the usual feeding when blowing the whistle, so that the chicken to form a conditioned reflex.

3. Feeding and management of hens: hens entering the laying period should strengthen the light, and the light time should be no less than 16 hours a day; if there is not enough light during the day, after reripening in the chicken shed at night, the scope of activities should be appropriately reduced, and at the same time, egg laying boxes should be placed in the egg sheds, and clean and soft bedding should be placed in the laying boxes to guide the chickens to lay eggs in the egg laying boxes.

4. Raising and management of cocks: in order to reduce rooster fighting, cocks are put into the hen flock according to the proportion of 1 ∶ 20; the remaining cocks are fattened and raised, or castrated and then fattened, so as to improve the weight and meat quality of chickens.

Safety management

When chickens are in the wild, they should be watched by special personnel to prevent birds of prey and wild animals from harming the chickens. Dogs can also be domesticated to patrol the flock of chickens, so as to play a good role in alerting the police, chasing enemies, protecting chickens and preventing theft; but when domesticating dogs, do not feed dead chickens, chicken bones, chicken offal, etc., and let chickens and dogs establish a good affinity.