Practical native chicken breeding technology Zheng Xiankun domesticated chicken

Luhua chickens are kept free during the day and circle at night, which is nothing new, but what Zheng Xiankun did after driving the chicken back was quite unique, holding the chicken on the shelf. Some chickens fall off and have to be carried up again!

This is the first part of Zheng Xiankun's chicken training-- training Luhua chickens to rest.

Isn't it good for these Luhua chickens to rest on the ground? why do they have to be trained to climb to the shelves? isn't this a trouble for themselves? Zheng Xiankun said he did it because of something that happened to him when he first raised chickens.

Do you usually keep it in this chicken coop? It's not fun to have so many chickens stacked on top of each other like a Luohan chicken. Besides, the pecked chicken is not only pecked awkward, but also may be pecked, affecting the growth and development.

Why does this Luhua chicken pile up or peck at its feathers? Zheng Xiankun learned by consulting a local technician that this was because the "bed" he had prepared for the chicken was not suitable.

Zheng Xiankun prepared this kind of flat bed for Luhua chicken. However, Luhua chicken is a kind of wild chicken, which still retains some of the characteristics of their ancestors. Their habit is to fly up the tree to have a rest.

The habit of climbing trees is mainly related to Luhua chicken's fear of the night. The chicken's eyesight is fine during the day, but at night, he is basically blind and can't see anything. But its various natural enemies will attack them at this time.

In order to avoid predators, over time, Luhua chicken gradually formed the habit of going to the tree to rest at night, because the tree is always safer than the ground.

As the saying goes, habit is natural. Luhua chickens are used to spending the night in trees. Now driving them back into the circle and spending the night on such a low flat shelf, they will lack sense of security and are more likely to be frightened. Luhua chicken, which is always nervous, likes to huddle together and peck at each other's hair to ease the panic.

Zheng Xiankun later found that this flat shelf is not in line with the nature of Luhua chicken, there is another drawback.

It seems that the flat frame must be improved. Then how to change it?

Zheng Xiankun is a person who likes to ponder when things happen. he thought about it over and over, but finally decided to observe the scene of Luhua chicken resting outside at night to see if a solution could be found.

The next time he drove the chickens back to the circle, he specially left some of the chickens in the woodland and took advantage of the night to observe. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it. I really made a special discovery.

Zheng Xiankun found that in the evening, when Luhua chickens fly to a tree for the night, sometimes there are hundreds of them in a tree, but they each have their own positions on the branches. once they are found correctly, they firmly grasp the branches with their claws without disturbing each other. When they are in place in a row like this, even if they are frightened, they will only spread out and rarely pile up or squeeze.

When he discovered this, Zheng Xiankun had an idea-- let the Luhua chicken live in the tree in the house!

These shelves in the chicken coop are the shelves built by Zheng Xiankun to build Luhua chickens by imitating trees. These shelves look very simple, but from the material to the structure, Zheng Xiankun fumbled bit by bit. The wood of the perch is made locally, using branches cut from fruit trees when they are trimmed, with a diameter of 2-3 cm, which is just right for Luhua chickens to grasp, and can withstand their weight. The most important thing is that in order to avoid the stacking of Luhua chickens, the shelf pays attention to different levels when it is built.

The lowest perch is 1.5-2 meters, the highest is 4-5 meters, generally a chicken ring is 3-4 layers, because it is hierarchical, chickens can staggered stay, step on a shelf, there is no chance to pile together.

Based on his discovery of the rest habit of Luhua chicken, Zheng Xiankun came up with a frame that imitates a big tree, which not only satisfies the nature of Luhua chicken climbing, prevents chickens from piling up and harming each other, but also keeps them hygienic. Just at this time, Zheng Xiankun brought in a new batch of Luhua chickens, so he decided to let them try the new shelf first. However, the process of adaptation is not smooth.

Faced with these strange shelves, Luhua chicken seems to have forgotten to climb the heights. A curious one flew up, but fell again, and most of them simply looked at the shelf in a daze and had no intention of going up at all.