Introduction to the technology of raising native chicken in tea garden

Raising chicken in tea garden can reduce pest and grass damage, increase organic fertilizer, loosen soil, improve soil properties, reduce feed, reduce feeding cost and improve chicken meat taste.

1. Breed selection: chicken raising in tea garden is mainly grazing, supplemented by house feeding. Because of its extensive production environment, local chicken breeds with strong adaptability, strong disease resistance, tolerance to rough feeding and diligent foraging should be selected for breeding.

Second, the choice of garden: the selected tea garden requires a certain distance from the village, convenient transportation, high and dry terrain, good scenery. The ground is sandy loam or loam, which has not been polluted by infectious diseases or parasitic pathogens in the past, and has good air permeability and water permeability. this kind of soil has good drainage, low thermal conductivity, and microorganisms are not easy to reproduce, which meets the hygiene requirements. There should be sufficient water for broilers to drink, requiring that the water does not contain germs and food, no odor or smell, and the water quality is clarified.

Third, the construction of chicken coop: in the middle of the tea garden where broilers are kept, choose a simple chicken coop with earth walls or brick wood and Shantou blankets to build a slope with a height of about 2 meters, a span of 5 meters and a length of 10 meters and 30 meters. The ground is covered with sand or cement, and the chicken house faces north to south or northwest to southeast.

IV. Stocking methods

1. Grazing: the chicks have just been put into the tea garden. In the first 5 days, the trough and drinking fountain should be placed about 1 meter near the henhouse to familiarize them with the environment. During these 5 days, the chicks should still be fed according to the original times of raising chicks, and the times of feeding can be gradually reduced in the future. When the weather is fine, let the chickens out of the henhouse in the early morning and drive the chickens back to the henhouse when it gets dark in the evening. If the chicken has full feathers on a rainy day, you can still open the door of the henhouse and let it in and out freely. Otherwise, it is not appropriate to release the chickens. If the climate suddenly changes, the chicken should be called back in time.

2. Supplementary feeding: the chickens can be fed with an appropriate amount of compound feed before grazing every morning, and then replenished once after the chicken is recalled in the evening. The amount of supplementary feeding should vary according to the season, such as less weeds and insects in the tea garden in autumn and winter, and can be appropriately increased in spring and summer.

3. Epidemic prevention and disease eradication: a set of scientific immunization procedures must be established and vaccination should be carried out regularly. Vaccination of chickens is usually carried out after returning to the nest at night.

Matters needing attention: when spraying tea trees to control diseases and insect pests, chickens should be driven to a safe place to avoid. If you encounter heavy rain, you can avoid 2-3 days, and if it is sunny, extend 1-2 days appropriately, to prevent chickens from eating pesticide-sprayed leaves, grass and other poisoning. After the chickens are out of the fence, the tea garden should be cleaned and the ground can be disinfected with quicklime or lime milk. Every batch of chickens should be raised at intervals. After raising a batch of tea gardens, you should be free for a period of time, and find another tea garden to raise them, that is, the so-called "rotational grazing."

The above is for reference only.