How to reduce the cost of raising chickens

Chicken is one of the most common poultry in China, there are many different breeds in our country, and the breeding area is also the top of many breeding projects. Farmers must hope to make money by raising chickens, but some friends find that their profits are pitifully small after raising them for a year. In fact, a large part of the reason is that the cost of raising chickens has not been controlled well, so how to reduce the cost of raising chickens? The following editor has brought a way to reduce the cost of raising chickens, let's take a look!

1. Feed management

Chickens have unnecessary nutritional needs at every stage of growth, so we should formulate a reasonable feed feeding plan and make full use of local natural feed. Reduce the feed cost, and the establishment of the feed trough in the chicken house should be reasonable to prevent the chicken from splashing the feed when eating, resulting in feed waste. And adjust the height of the feed trough in time according to the growth of the chicken to ensure that the feed tank is always in the position suitable for the chicken to eat. The principle of feeding more and less should be followed when feeding. A special data survey shows that when the feed in the feed trough reaches 2 to 3, the feed waste is nearly 13%. The profiteering rate is only 2% at 1x3, so make sure that the amount of feed you put into each feed does not exceed 1AGU3.

2. Elimination in time

When we breed, we should observe the growth of each chicken regularly and eliminate the weak growth, residual chickens and chickens with low production capacity in time. Because this kind of chicken not only has low laying rate and poor meat quality, but also consumes feed and increases feed cost, so we should eliminate it in time. And the elimination criteria should be determined according to the breeding direction, for example, laying hens should observe the laying rate, and broilers should be determined according to their body weight. However, no matter what the breeding direction is, sick chickens should be isolated and treated in time. If they cannot be treated, they should be eliminated immediately to prevent infection.

3. Control temperature

Chickens are very sensitive to temperature changes, temperature discomfort will have a great impact on the growth of chickens, light stress reaction, severe death. And the chicken growth stage is different, the breeding direction is different to the temperature request will have the certain change. For example, the best temperature for laying hens should be controlled at about 18 degrees Celsius. If the temperature is lower than 7 degrees in winter, the amount of feed will be increased and the production of eggs will be reduced. If the temperature is high in summer, if the temperature is not cooled in time, the chicken may suffer from heatstroke and dehydration, reduce food intake, and naturally have a certain impact on production. Therefore, it is very important to control the temperature, which is not only directly related to the growth of chickens, but also affect the feed cost.

4. Disease prevention and treatment

Disease prevention and control is the key factor to ensure the stable growth of chicken flocks. Reducing the incidence of disease can increase breeding profits and reduce breeding costs. Because the disease poses a great threat to the growth of the flock, if the chicken is not treated in time after the disease, it may lead to the death of the whole column of chickens. But even treatment will incur treatment costs, which indirectly increase the cost of breeding. Therefore, disease prevention and control is a more important and difficult work to reduce the cost of raising chickens. We should strengthen breeding and management, improve the environmental hygiene of chicken sheds, and create a good environment for the growth of chickens.

The above is a brief introduction to the methods to reduce the cost of raising chickens, and we can also cut off the beak for the chicken in time, which can not only prevent the chicken from pecking the feed outside when eating, resulting in feed waste. It can also avoid pecking habits in chickens. In fact, as long as we do some daily basic management work, we can effectively reduce costs. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. Thank you for your reading and support.