Taihe black chicken breeding four unique tricks, we should pay attention to the details.

Taihe bird chicken has a long history as medicine in China, mainly for relieving thirst, moderate evil, chest and abdominal pain, deficiency and loss and so on. The main ingredients of Wuji Baifeng Pill, a famous proprietary Chinese medicine in China, are the meat, viscera and bones of black chicken. Even the eggs laid by Taihe black chicken contain more amino acids than ordinary eggs and have high nutrition and nourishing effect. It is precisely because of the special medicinal value of Taihe black chicken that Li Xianghua began to raise this kind of black chicken 10 years ago and accumulated a lot of experience in black chicken breeding.

The first trick: bulb heat preservation method

When he first raised chickens, he found that Taihe black chicken was born surprisingly small, grew as big as its fist and weighed more than 20 grams, while other chickens were born with more than 50 grams.

In addition to being small, this kind of black chicken is also easy to catch cold. Especially in terms of temperature, as long as a negligence, it is easy to get sick, causing colds. Chicks who catch a cold not only eat less and drink more, but more often they are lethargic and depressed, and their resistance will decline, so that the little ones are more likely to catch the disease again, and the natural survival rate is relatively poor. In order to reduce the possibility of illness of the weak Taihe black chicken seedlings, temperature regulation has become the first difficult problem in front of Li Xianghua.

Generally speaking, ordinary chickens can grow normally when the ambient temperature is about 34 ℃ in the first week of the brooding stage, while the optimum temperature for Taihe black chickens at this stage is 35-36 ℃. And because they are born weak and sensitive to changes in ambient temperature, Taihe chickens will catch cold and get sick as long as there is a slight change in temperature.

To make the temperature reach the standard, the key is to make the temperature relatively constant. So Li Xianghua changed the heating of the fire into a simple light bulb. Because with the stove heat preservation, the temperature suddenly high and low, the effect is very poor. After heating with a light bulb, as long as the light is on and covered with a thick quilt, the temperature in the nursery is basically the same. However, in order to artificially control the temperature according to the needs of the little black chicken, Li Xianghua also prepared a variety of light bulbs of different wattage sizes. It turns out that the temperature of small black chicken seedlings in the brooding stage is not always the same. In the first week, the optimum temperature for its growth was 35-36 ℃. In the second week, the temperature dropped to 32-34 ℃, and then decreased by 1-2 ℃ per week. Therefore, every week, the breeder in the farm has to change the light bulb to adjust the temperature to meet the growth requirements of the little black chicken.

With the right temperature, the chicks during the whole breeding period will no longer catch cold because of hot and cold.

The second move: scattered nourishment

When Taihe black chickens are generally raised for 60 or 70 days, Li Xianghua will put them in the woodland. Li Xianghua decided on the free-range woodland after careful investigation. Taihe black chicken can also live in a cage, but its nutritional composition will change. They are released because in Taihe, there are many differences in its ecological environment, including water and soil, as well as vegetation and so on. Plants with medicinal value, soil with high content of copper and iron, diversified food in the stocking area and so on, all of which make the medicinal ingredients of black chicken accumulate well.

The third move: walking chicken coop

To say that black chicken has something to eat and can eat is a good thing, but it has also become a headache for Li Xianghua. At first, Li Xianghua also kept black chickens in the henhouse and let them feed around. However, the grass was slowly eaten bald, but the black chicken did not leave. In fact, Li Xianghua's ecological stocking area covers an area of more than 3000 mu and is covered with grass everywhere. I would rather eat less than go anywhere else, not because these black chickens are lazy, but because they do not dare. The timid black chicken can only graze around itself, and the black chicken can only run as far as 20 meters, and it is still under the leadership of the rooster. How can we make them eat more abundant food?

Li Xianghua got inspiration from bee farming. Beekeepers can generally move their hives in order to get better flowers for their bees. Inspired by the beehive, Li Xianghua used more than a year to invent this kind of small chicken coop that can be carried. This kind of chicken coop is 1.5 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, just enough to house 30 or 40 black chickens, and the front and rear windows ensure good ventilation in the henhouse. Since I had this kind of chicken coop, I have moved home to black chicken every other month or so. The grass eaten in this way slowly rises after a period of time. This is like rotational grazing on the prairie, where grass and insects are almost eaten. Help black chickens to eat in another place. This is also time for the original grass to rest and recuperate, and timid black chickens can continue to taste all kinds of delicacies.