How to manage free-range Chai chickens by eating less eggs and laying fewer eggs in summer

When the summer weather is hot and the temperature is more than 32 ℃, the feed intake of chickens will decrease obviously, and the insufficient intake of nutrients will lead to the decrease of egg laying rate and egg quality. Continuous high temperature can also easily lead to chicken exhaustion and cause chicken death. therefore, the management of firewood chicken in summer should pay attention to the following key points.

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1. Appropriately increase the content of protein and energy in the diet. The diet can still meet the nutritional needs of hens with reduced feed intake. It should be fed early in the morning and fed late in the evening, so that the feed intake of chickens can be increased appropriately, and firewood chickens have enough nutrition to produce high egg performance. There is no shortage of water in summer, so we must ensure that the drinking water of Chai chicken is adequate and clean. For example, adding 0.1% vitamin C or 0.63% sodium bicarbonate to drinking water can alleviate the heat stress of chickens, and appropriately increase the amount of multi-dimensional electrolysis can reduce mortality. In summer, supply water regularly every day, keep the drinking water clean, and wash the sink once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

two。 Environmental hygiene and disinfection. Persist in removing the accumulated chicken manure in the house every day, reduce the heat production by fermentation of chicken manure in the house, and strengthen the control of flies and rodents, so as to reduce the chance of germ transmission. Take the chicken for spray disinfection every three days. Free-range chickens had better be kept in the woods, and the sunshade net can be used to build an awning in the sunny side of the henhouse and the resting place of the chicken. Plant some tall trees such as sycamore to create a cool climate, and plant some vines outside to let them climb on the roof, shading and cooling, so as to reduce the solar radiation heat entering the house.

3. Deworming. As a result of Chai chicken in the process of stocking, often contact with the ground, easy to be infected with coccidia, roundworms and other parasites. Pay attention to repellent coccidiosis in chicks and young chickens. Three-word coccidial powder and diclazuril can be used interchangeably. To get rid of Ascaris lumbricoides, you can mix it with albendazole.

4. do a good job of immunity. Mainly Newcastle disease, avian influenza, bursa of Fabricius and fowlpox, which are immunized according to the local immunization program.