Causes of egg pecking of laying hens and preventive measures

In the process of laying hen breeding, there is often a certain rate of damage, and in addition to the damage caused by feeding management, there is also the phenomenon of egg pecking, which greatly reduces the qualified rate of eggs and affects the efficiency of breeding. So what is the cause of egg pecking by layers? How to prevent and cure it? Let's get to know it.

First, the cause of pecking eggs

1. Bad environment

Egg pecking may occur in laying hens due to excessive feeding density, insufficient space in henhouse, high temperature during brooding, humid and muggy henhouse, insufficient feeding and drinking water, and lack of light.

2. Feed nutrition

Feed protein and sulfur amino acid content is insufficient, salt is insufficient, or lack of some trace elements or vitamins, crude fiber content watering, crude fiber is too little to meet the metabolism of chickens, so the phenomenon of egg pecking occurs.

3. Disease

Laying hens in a certain disease, physical discomfort, such as chronic enteritis will cause poor nutrition absorption, or parasitic infection, feed mildew caused dermatitis and paralysis, will cause laying hens to peck eggs.

4. Other reasons

Some laying hens are aggressive by nature and prone to pecking behavior; precocious hens are more neurotic and prone to egg pecking.

II. Preventive measures

In order to prevent chickens from pecking and competing with each other, mixed breeding should be avoided in the breeding process, which can be raised in groups according to the factors such as breed, age, strength and so on, so as to reduce the phenomenon of egg pecking.

2. Keep the environment clean

When raising, we should pay attention to the dryness and cleanliness of the chicken house, sufficient light, avoid strong light in the breeding room, appropriate density of chickens, good ventilation and adequate drinking water, so as to provide a suitable environment for the growth of chickens.

3. Reasonable collocation of feed

In order to ensure the comprehensive nutrition of laying hens, diets should be rationally matched. We should pay attention to the content of crude protein in the diet and increase the proportion with the growth of laying hens. It is necessary to reasonably adjust the proportion of calcium and phosphorus in the diet, and pay attention to adding appropriate amount of salt in the diet, and feeding sufficient green feed.

4. Broken beak

In order to completely prevent the occurrence of pecking tinea in laying hens, the beak can be cut off at the age of 7-14 days and the second time at the age of 70-90 days.

The above is an introduction to the causes and preventive measures of egg pecking. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about it, please follow us.