Management techniques of grazing and raising chickens in woodland, hilly and rural areas

Graze

Grazing and raising chickens is to make use of orchards, barren slopes and hills and grasslands, with meat and eggs or farm chickens as breeding objects, with the combination of house feeding and stocking, so that chickens can freely feed on insects and green tender grass in the grass, properly replenish them and drink clean water without pollution.

1. Grazing site selection

Generally choose orchards, pollution-free barren slope hilly grassland, secondary shrub forest is the best, the terrain slope should not be too large, leeward to the sun, clean and adequate water source (protect the water source when grazing to prevent pollution), there are more insects, green grass and rich nutrition, away from traffic roads, residential areas.

2. Selection of stocking chickens and schedule of brooding

It is better for grazing chickens to choose meat and egg chickens or farm chickens, and the male chicks are better than the female ones, which can shorten the grazing time and improve the economic benefit.

Grazing chickens should grow to a certain size before grazing, the general brooding time is best from March to May, when the temperature begins to rise, the sun is sufficient, which is very beneficial to the survival rate, growth and development of chicks, and insects have begun to breed at this time. Grass sprouting and growing can create a suitable grazing environment.

3. Preparation and supplementary feeding of chicken stocking facilities.

When the chicks grow to more than 250 grams in the house, it is changed to the combination of short-term grazing and training and house feeding. Due to the changeable climate in spring, the temporary chicken sheds at grazing sites should be kept warm and leakproof. At this time, the range of chicken grazing should not be too large, supplementary feeding should use compound feed, do not use raw food to feed chickens, feeding time one time in the morning, less in the morning, more in the evening.

4. Do a good job of security prevention

To strengthen the protection of the surrounding environment of grazing chickens and avoid sudden shock and noise interference with chickens, protective nets should be set up around chicken farms to prevent the loss of chickens or the harm of eagles, dogs and weasels to chickens, and reduce stress and loss.

5. Do a good job in the prevention and control of chicken blight

Due to the wide exposure to the environment, grazing chickens are likely to be threatened by epidemic disease. moreover, the growing period of grazing chickens is relatively long, so it is necessary to achieve epidemic prevention, early prevention and early treatment of disease. The growing environment of grazing chickens should be inspected frequently, and dead chickens should be buried in time and should not be discarded at random. Weak chickens should be caught and fed separately.