Food of a rooster differs in nothing from food of hens. They need to be fed with some products unless the rooster can give slightly less mineral additives as he does not produce some egg. A diet of hens various, they eat practically everything therefore it is possible to feed birds.
It is required to you
- - grain crops;
- - mineral additives;
- - salt;
- - greens.
Instruction
1. The main type of food of hens can be considered grain crops. Give it to birds several times in day on 50 g on the head. As hens are omnivorous, they will eat buckwheat, split peas, millet, wheat, corn, a millet or barley with pleasure.
2. Feed up a bird a green grass in the summer. If the rooster has free access on the street, then let peck juicy greens how many it will want to it. But you watch that it did not leave in a kitchen garden, otherwise all your vegetable cultures will be partially pecked. If the rooster is held in the closed open-air cage, give it 40-50 g of greens. But the grass cannot replace grain and serves only as a source of vitamins.
3. Feed up a rooster various flour: fish, meat-and-bone and also give ground shells and chalk. But the bird needs not only mineral additives, but also usual table salt. On one head about 0.5 g of salt which can be added to the main food are necessary.
4. In shops, special complex forages for a bird are on sale, all necessary substances, vitamins and mineral additives are their part. If you decided to feed the rooster with such forage, then it is necessary to add to it nothing any more. If you not only a rooster, but also have hens, can treat several times a week them with shells or chalk, but is not more often.
5. You watch purity of drinking bowls and daily wash out them. On average one chicken drinks about 200-300 ml of water. But drinking bowls have to be the closed type, otherwise birds will begin to adopt water procedures with pleasure, spilling water.
6. You can give to a rooster and food waste which remains, for example, bread and garnishes. Birds very much like to regale on something tasty. If to feed hens with similar sterns and additives, then they will rush all the year round, and eggs at the same time will be large and with a thick shell.