Techniques of raising chickens in Bamboo Forest

Bamboo grows everywhere, and there is bamboo in front and behind the houses in the countryside. Chickens raised at home usually go to the bamboo forest to look for food and activities during the day, which is equivalent to the activity field of chickens. So in fact, if you want to raise chickens and set up farms, you can actually set up chicken farms in places with large bamboo groves, so that they can be released naturally, so that the quality of chickens will improve, the prices will also rise, and the excrement of chickens can cultivate bamboo, which is a win-win mode of breeding.

1. Select varieties

In general, it is better to choose some local chickens that are suitable for the local environment. Local chickens adapt to the local environment, and they are also the chickens mainly purchased by local people, and the price is much higher than that of other broilers. Choose chickens that have strong disease resistance, good foraging ability and like to be active. You can also choose excellent breeds of local chickens that cross with other chickens.

2. Site selection

It is best to be far away from the village, not in the upper reaches of the water source, but there are abundant water sources, such as the reservoir is a little farther away and there are large areas of bamboo forests. For the convenience of transportation, it is best to have a main road at the foot of the mountain. You can find a suitable hillside that is not very high along the road from the township to the county seat.

3. Construction of chicken coop

The chicken coop is required to be warm in winter and cool in summer, ventilation facilities should be provided, and warm facilities should be complete. You can use local bamboo and wood to buy some bricks to build chicken sheds. The chicken coop is about 6 meters wide and 10 meters long, not too narrow, otherwise it is easy to be congested, inconvenient to enter, directly trim the inclined shed type, and the roof will not accumulate water. There should be electric facilities, some appliances and cleaning equipment in the henhouse. Use barbed wire and net along the outside of the bamboo forest to prevent animals from entering and harming the chickens.

4. Brooding management

Chicks should be cultivated for a period of time before stocking. Within two days of birth, heat preservation should be 35 degrees, humidity 75%; heat preservation 33 degrees in a week, humidity 60%; heat preservation 30 degrees in two weeks, humidity 55%; gradually drop to natural temperature, about 2 to 3 degrees a week. Be ventilated at noon when the weather is warm. Receive light within three days, reduce the light time after a week, and then normal sunlight. It is required to start eating within three days, feed water first, add glucose to the water, and feed within a few hours after drinking water. Mainly feed fine feed, feed with water, feed freely, feed 6 times a day, 4 times a day after a week, and 3 times a day after a month. If you eat normally, you can keep it.

5. Stocking management

After stocking, the flock should be trained to meet the henhouse, such as shouting when feeding, so that the flock will know they are back after a period of time. Go back to the henhouse every day to check the number. Always check the protective net to avoid being broken by some wild animals. In addition to foraging every day, you also need to be fed once in the morning and evening. Often look for food outside, sometimes it may give rise to parasites, which can be dewormed regularly.

The main purpose of raising chickens in bamboo groves is to find a suitable breeding environment and how to build chicken sheds. Secondly, brooding is similar to ordinary chicken farming. Stocking needs to pay attention to a lot of problems, in fact, there may be more minor problems or some temporarily undiscovered problems.