Matters needing attention of chicks in winter

The survival ability of chicks in this cold winter is very weak, so protection is particularly important. The most important thing for chicks in winter is temperature control and ventilation, so what should we pay attention to in these aspects? Below the pro-agricultural network to bring you these aspects of attention, you can understand.

1. Inspect the chicken coop

In order to maintain the indoor temperature of the chicken house in winter, it is recommended that all places except vents and entrances should be managed in a closed manner. First of all, the heating equipment should be checked to make sure that the supply of heating does not go directly to the chicks in a certain direction. Secondly, carefully check whether there is a place of air leakage, the place of air leakage has little impact on the chicken house. Second, check whether the daytime light can illuminate most of the chicken coops, and whether the light bulb can allow chicks to get reasonable lighting. It is best to carefully check whether the exhaust gas from the heating equipment will return to the inside of the chicken coop from the vent.

2. Temperature control

After the inspection, the closed temperature control should be started, and the room temperature should be controlled above 30 ℃ before the feathers of the chicks are fully grown. It can decline slowly with the passage of time, decreasing by 1-2 ℃ every other week in the initial stage, and keeping the temperature constant in the later stage, which is controlled above 20 ℃. The temperature should be adjusted according to the condition of the chicks. If most chicks often curl up together, it means that the temperature is low and should be raised appropriately. When there is a frequent standing, walking around, and the rest time is extremely short, the temperature is high.

3. Moistureproof ventilation

Although winter is a dry season, but because of the closed temperature control management, the water evaporation in the chicken house will be relatively fast, and the moisture will be relatively more. You should always pay attention to the random moistureproof, otherwise it is easy to cause some diseases. The ventilation mode of chicks is different from that of adult chickens. Chicks pay attention to short-term ventilation. It is best to raise the temperature in the house and lower the temperature by means of ventilation, so that the chicks will not be attacked by cold air and the temperature of the henhouse will not fluctuate too much.

4. Disinfection and disease prevention

The disinfection of chicks before winter must be done well, and it is best to have a complete chicken house disinfection before closed management, which will effectively kill many germs. In winter, it is also necessary to disinfect from time to time, and the disinfection at this time is mainly focused on the disinfection of the sink behind the feed tank. In terms of hygiene, in addition to timely cleaning of chicken droppings, it is also necessary to change the bottom materials of chicks regularly, especially when chickens are contaminated with chicken droppings. Secondly, some disease prevention drugs need to be added in the feed to improve the resistance of chicks.

Raising chicks in winter is very tiring, because chicks are already extremely fragile, coupled with this environmental factor, the combination of the two should be paid more attention to. Under everyone's careful care in many ways, these chicks will certainly bring you a bumper harvest after the beginning of spring.