The best time for chicken seedlings to eat

If you want to raise chickens continuously and efficiently, you should do a good job of keeping and purchasing chicken seedlings. Whether it is self-breeding or outsourcing, the feeding and management of chicken seedlings is very important. When raising chicken seedlings, the feeding time of chicken seedlings is very critical. It directly affects the later growth of chicken seedlings. So when is the best time for chicken seedlings to start? How to start eating? Let's take a look at it with the editor.

1. Eating time

The feeding time of chicken seedlings is very important, and it is the best feeding time within 24 hours after breaking the shell of chicken seedlings. If long-distance transportation is needed, the feeding should be completed within a day and a half. Eating time should not be too late, if eating too late, then the chicken seedlings will consume a lot of their own nutrition, prone to dehydration, weakness and other phenomena, resulting in a decline in survival rate, affecting its growth and development. Chicken seedlings should be allowed to drink water between eating, promote intestinal peristalsis of chicken seedlings, discharge meconium and improve their appetite. When drinking for the first time, the water temperature should be similar to the room temperature, about 7 days before it can drink tap water.

2. Feeding steps

In the first drink of chicken seedlings, an appropriate amount of glucose and antibiotics should be added to the water, which is very beneficial to the growth of chicken seedlings. Make sure you have enough drinking water and clean enough, and wash the drinking fountain regularly every day. Multiple drinking fountains should be set up in the house to ensure that each chicken seedling can drink water normally. When drinking water, it is necessary to avoid excessive drinking of chicken seedlings due to long-term lack of water, which is very disadvantageous to the growth of chicken seedlings. On the other hand, the starting feed should be fresh enough and rich in nutrients, and the amount of feed should not be too much each time, about 7 days.

In the first three days of feeding, let the young chickens eat on colored containers or plastic sheeting as far as possible, and sprinkle the feed evenly on the plastic sheeting to promote the young chickens to eat freely. Then from the fourth day on, the chicks under 10 days of age should be fed at least 6 times a year. Then, from the 20th day, the young chickens were allowed to eat freely. Adequate troughs should be set up to ensure that each chick can eat at the same time. In the early feeding, do not feed too much, let the chicken seedlings eat about 8 points full, to prevent the emergence of picky chickens, resulting in nutritional imbalance in the chicken seedlings.

3. The reason for drinking water before eating

Drinking water is one of the physiological needs of chicken seedlings after breaking their shells. Because after breaking the shell, the yolk sac of the chicken seedling has not been partially absorbed. The nutrition in this yolk is a necessary nutrition for chicken seedlings to lay eggs. And because the rate of yolk nutrition absorption is directly related to the amount of drinking water, drinking water is mainly to speed up the absorption of yolk nutrition. The earlier the drinking time, the better the absorption of yolk. It is also helpful to clean up the formation of chicken seedlings, promote metabolism and enhance the growth ability of chicken seedlings.

The above is a brief introduction to the best time for chicken seedlings to start. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. I hope it can help you all.