Causes and preventive measures of feathering in breeder chickens

Breeder chicken is an important fecundity of a chicken farm, but the phenomenon of feathering often occurs in the process of breeder production, which will affect egg production and egg quality to a certain extent, and affect the commodity rate of chickens. So what is the reason for the feathering of breeder chickens? How to prevent it? Let's take a look at the pro-farm network.

1. Nutritional reasons

Breeder chickens consume a lot of nutrients in the process of feather growth, and the lack of nutrients related to feather growth will make their hair brittle and easily broken, and lack of nutrition will also induce skin inflammation, resulting in the phenomenon of feather pecking. At present, the research on the nutritional requirements of raising chickens has been more mature, and the nutrition in the general feed can also meet the needs of chicken growth, and there is generally no phenomenon of hair loss caused by nutrition, but this may occur if the feed is prepared by itself.

Preventive measures: in the feed matching must be balanced nutrition, to ensure that the growth of each kind of chicken nutrition, nutritional hair loss phenomenon must check the feed formula, and timely deployment and replacement.

2. Environmental reasons

In the high temperature environment in summer, the chicken may shed its hair in order to give off the body heat, and the frequent change of light time and time will also lead to the phenomenon of chicken shedding, during the seasonal exchange, especially during the transition between spring and summer, the light intensity and duration suddenly increased, resulting in inappropriate stress reaction, resulting in feather pecking and hair loss. In artificial breeding, frequent power outages, forgetting to turn off the lights and changing the time of the lights will cause its discomfort, so it will lose its hair.

Preventive measures: in the period of high temperature, cooling measures must be taken to keep chickens in a temperature environment suitable for growth, reduce breeding density and strengthen ventilation. The light time must be fixed, if you want to change, it should be carried out slowly, not suddenly, and the light duration should be provided according to the growth stage of the chicken. Different growth stages provide different light duration to promote its growth.

3. Management reasons

In the management of stagnant water feeding, controlling the feed intake of breeder chickens during egg laying will lead to the phenomenon of insufficient food, wool pecking and shedding, which is accompanied by the decline of egg laying rate and egg quality. In addition, chickens do not drink enough water and are in a state of long-term water shortage, which will lead to strong stress reaction and hair loss. In daily management, hair pecking and hair loss will also occur if they are scared and other stress reactions caused by other reasons.

Preventive measures: provide adequate feed and drinking water, daily management, to keep the environment quiet, so as not to frighten the chickens, do a good job in feeding and management, try not to have stress reactions in chickens.

4. The cause of disease

Chickens are often accompanied by hair loss after getting certain diseases, such as parasites, viral diseases, influenza and so on.

Preventive measures: when raising, we should strengthen disease prevention and control measures to ensure the safe growth of chickens, and treat the disease in time to prevent the disease from worsening.

The above are the causes and preventive measures of chicken feathering brought by the pro-agricultural network. This is the end of the introduction of chicken feathering. If you want to know more, please pay attention to the pro-agricultural network.