Nutritional regulation of broilers under high temperature

When raising broilers in high temperature environment, if the management is not good, then the growth of broilers is very unfavorable. There will be various problems, such as reduced food intake, physiological decline, etc., will seriously affect the health of broilers. Therefore, in order to reduce the impact of high temperature on broilers, we should pay attention to nutrition regulation. So how should broilers adjust their nutrition at high temperatures? Today, Xiaobian will give you a brief introduction. Let's take a look together!

1. Diet formula

In the high temperature environment, the market price of broilers will be reduced, and the food intake will also decrease, resulting in broilers prone to malnutrition. Therefore, attention should be paid to appropriately increasing the nutrient concentration in the diet to ensure adequate nutrition intake for broilers. However, it should be noted that it is not possible to simply increase the protein content of the diet. Because broilers eat a lot of protein feed, it will lead to further reduction of food intake, and in severe cases will refuse to eat, thus affecting the energy intake of laying hens. Therefore, we should appropriately increase the ability ratio and reduce the protein content, while broilers will eat a variety of feeds in order to meet the protein needs, so as to achieve better feeding results.

2. Adjust feeding

Too much heat reduces the amount of food the broilers eat, and that's well known. Therefore, we can adjust the feeding times and feeding time of broilers appropriately. When feeding, we should pay attention to avoiding feeding chickens when the temperature is highest in a day. It is best to do it in the morning and evening when the temperature is not high, which can reduce the body temperature of broilers and improve the utilization rate of feed. Moreover, in the high temperature period, it is best to let the broilers rest more and not exercise, which can effectively improve the daily weight gain of broilers at high temperatures.

3. Adequate drinking water

In hot environments, broilers lower their body temperature by drinking cool water. Therefore, when we are in the summer and other high temperature seasons, we should always provide a fresh and cool drinking water for broilers, lower the temperature of broilers, and avoid heat stress in broilers. At the same time, we should try to choose some root tubers and other feeds when feeding feed. Because the water content in these feeds is also relatively high, it can cool down the temperature and reduce the heat stress of broilers.

4. Other measures

High temperature is easy to cause respiratory poisoning phenomenon in broilers, resulting in acid-base imbalance in broilers, so that physiological function disorders occur. Therefore, we should also pay attention to adjusting the acid-base balance in broilers. Potassium chloride or citric acid can be appropriately added to drinking water. Then after the broilers appear heat stress, we can relieve the heat stress phenomenon by using anti-stress drugs. Vitamin C, for example, can effectively help broilers survive the high temperature season safely.

The above is a simple introduction to the nutritional regulation of broilers at high temperatures. Today's introduction is here, this article is for reference only, I hope to help everyone oh!