After construction and finishing of the hen house of a wall cover with lime and make its full equipment that birds it was convenient to feed, give to drink and take away the laid eggs. The equipment of the hen house will require some materials and also observance of simple rules.
It is required to you
- - bar or poles;
- - feeding troughs;
- - drinking bowls;
- - boxes for postponement of eggs;
- - separate feeding troughs for mineral forages and gravel;
- - bathtub with river sand;
- - straw for nests.
Instruction
1. Chickens begin to sit down on perches and to sleep on them approximately by three months. Therefore already by this time it is necessary to equip them. Up to three months of chickens transplant for the night in different cages up to several heads, no more than ten-twelve because they sleep a heap and can suppress each other. In three months all livestock can be held in one shelter as the most part of chickens will sleep on perches.
2. Perches can be made of bars 40x40 or poles. If bars are established, all keen edges need to be pared down a plane and to smooth out an emery paper. It is necessary to have perches at the height of 50 cm from a floor on a wall, opposite to windows. Each perch has to be located from the following at distance of 40 cm. On one head places not less than 30 cm will be required. Therefore the quantity of perches has to correspond to the number of the heads of a bird.
3. In the hen house it is necessary to establish a feeding trough. A feeding trough it is better to arrange on a floor, is closer to a wall to windows. It has to be partitioned by thin sticks that hens had no opportunity to break off a forage paws that they very much like to do.
4. For a drinking bowl it is necessary to use the special device for hens with automatic water supply. If the usual trough or a basin is used, a floor about drinking bowls will be constantly wet, as well as a bird.
5. It is necessary to put a feeding trough with mineral sterns and gravel. In the middle of the hen house it is necessary to equip the platform with river sand that hens had an opportunity in it to bathe.
6. Nests for an otkladka of eggs it is necessary to have in the most dark corner of the hen house at the height of 60 cm from a floor, but it only for oviparous breed. For broilers of a nest are located in a dark corner at the height of 20-30 cm from a floor.
7. If in economy it is planned to keep a hen, it is necessary to make by her a separate cage, to put a separate feeding trough and a drinking bowl.
8. For walking the place near the hen house is fenced off. It is recommended to walk only laying hens. Early broilers contain on sagination without walking for a fast set of weight.