Matters needing attention in raising chickens in the woods

Additional insulation and lighting

Cover the chicken house with windbreaks, keep the floor clean, spread grass, paste the doors and windows well, put down the straw curtain at night to keep warm or light the fire to keep the room temperature above 10℃. If the number of chickens raised is small, they can be driven back to the house at night.

Chicken house facilities and feeding density

There should be a playground outside the chicken house, a rest frame should be set up inside the chicken house, and the feeding density should be 5 per square meter. Before putting chickens in the morning, pay attention to adjusting the temperature difference inside and outside the house. You can open the doors and windows of the chicken house first, so that the chickens have a process of adapting to the cold air outside, and then put them on the playground to prevent colds. Usually to feed hanging food, namely feed vegetables, etc., to promote its movement, help digestion, healthy chicken body. Insist on lighting for 13 to 14 hours a day, and turn on electric lighting when natural light is insufficient.

Winter should increase the number of feeding times

Increasing the feeding frequency can ensure that each chicken has sufficient food intake, which is conducive to its own heat production and weight gain. The egg laying rate of native chickens was increased by 18% and the disease resistance was enhanced by adding 30~ 40g of 60 ℃ white spirit to each kilogram of feed and mixing well. Diversified feed for native chickens should be corn, sorghum, bran, etc., green feed should be carrots, cabbage, spinach, etc. During the laying period, native chickens should also feed protein and mineral feeds such as bean cake, corn flour, shell powder, fish bone powder, etc., and ensure adequate drinking water every day.

Feed additives can be fully utilized. Adding 0.05% choline chloride, 0.15% methionine and proper amount of natural yeast to feed can increase laying rate by about 3%. Do a good job of disinfection and epidemic prevention, often clean the feces and sundries of chicken pens, regularly replace the bedding in the playground or chicken houses, keep the chicken houses dry and hygienic, usually pay attention to disinfection with Suer solution and mix with Chinese herbal medicine, or drink water with 0.5% potassium permanganate solution.

At present, many farmers still use traditional breeding methods to raise native chickens. This method of "fighting rice to raise chickens", although the chickens raised are fat and thin, the meat quality is tight, the taste is excellent, the price is high, and the sale is good, but the survival rate is low, the breeding cycle is long, the consumption is more, the effect is slow, and the income is less. If the following points are done well in feeding management, it can not only make chicken hair bright, ensure meat taste, but also improve its survival rate, shorten feeding cycle, consume less feed, get results quickly and earn more.

Structure of chicken house

Available old house transformation, can also build another chicken house, small chicken house installed elastic plastic net or bamboo woven net, mesh diameter 1 cm, net from the ground about 100 cm. If the old house transformation, should open the daylighting window and the ground window. Daylight windows are 150 cm from the ground and ground windows are 20 cm from the ground.

Prepare yourself before you enter the brood.

The chicken house transformed from the old house is painted with concentrated lime water for 1-2 times inside and on top of the four walls. Whether it is reconstruction or new chicken house, strict disinfection, good hygiene, verification of temperature control and ventilation facilities in the house.

Source of chicks

In order to reduce the number of exotic chickens brought germs and pure varieties, it is best to keep breeding chickens and self-breeding chickens.

1. Breeders choose pure native chickens with bright, healthy and fast growth. The hen weighs about 1.6 kg and the cock weighs 1.6-2.25 kg. The ratio of male to female is 1:10. Breeders should not use brother-sister chickens.

2. When the farmer comes to use the hen hatching method, in order to unify the age of the chicks, in addition to feeding evenly and keeping quality on time, the hens that are hatched first are incubated empty (no eggs are placed in the nest), but the incubation time should not exceed 7 days. Incubator should be adopted to hatch chicks in large-scale breeding.

scientific management

1. Chickens enter the brood room, 50 per square meter in the first week, separated into a group, and spread fresh and clean dry straw on the elastic plastic net or bamboo woven net. The thickness of the grass should be such that the chicken feces can fall to the ground from the gap. The second week 40 per square meter, remove the grass, so that chicken manure directly through the mesh fell to the ground. 30 per square metre in the third week and 10 thereafter.

2. Chickens were raised in groups according to age, strength, size, male and female.

3. The temperature of chicken house is 32℃ in the first week, and then it is lowered by 2.5℃ every week until the natural temperature is 21℃.

4. The 4-hour periodic interval illumination method of 1 hour light and 3 hours darkness is adopted to make the chicken's activities and rest appropriate, promote the growth of native chickens and improve feed utilization rate, and save leopard electricity bills at the same time. Light intensity refers to the light intensity of daylight windows.

5. Chicks can graze at 25 days old, which is one of the important factors to ensure high survival rate.

Prevention measures are mainly based on prevention

Observe the feeding and drinking of chickens every day. Medium chickens and large chickens spend the night on the perch rack, in pairs and in their respective positions, which is conducive to frequent inspection of chicken manure and finding out the corresponding sick chickens. In addition, sick chickens do not fly up to the perch when they enter the house; when chickens go out, sick chickens will not fly off the perch; sick chickens will fall off the perch, so sick chickens can be found accordingly. Discovered sick chickens should be isolated immediately, feces cleaning work once a week, rainy and snowy weather is strictly prohibited grazing, so as not to wet chicken feathers, so that chickens catch cold. Grazing sites should be checked in advance and dead animals should be discarded immediately to prevent chicken poisoning.