Hens are considered as one of the easiest pets in cultivation. They are unpretentious in food, are practically not ill, can rush all the year round, and their meat is nutritious and diyetichno. But that chicken remained healthy, she needs to be fed correctly.
Instruction
1. On poultry farms of hens feed with special compound feed which part all nutrients necessary for a bird, minerals and vitamins are. The chicken who is living on a personal plot, having a possibility of free walking is capable to ensure a full-fledged diet, the owner will need only to feed up her in the evening a small amount of grain.
2. If domestic hens live in limited space, then it is necessary to attend to drawing up for them the balanced menu. It is necessary to feed them 2-3 times a day with a dry and damp feed. Better if, hens have dry grain in continuous access in a feeding trough for free eating, and here damp bourgeoises it is worth giving in a small amount which hens will be able to eat for 1 time. The stale forage is instantly foot tapped by a bird, is it nobody will be any more.
3. If hens rush, the forage them has to contain amount of calcium, sufficient for formation of a shell. It is possible to use special mineral additives, and it is possible to add the pounded chalk and usual bone meal to a forage. Do not throw out an egg shell in garbage, collect it better and give to hens, it for them desired delicacy.
4. It is free the walking chicken constantly rummages in the earth, trying to discover grains of sand, stones and other rough litter necessary for her stomach for successful digestion. The chicken sitting in bondage it is deprived. The owner has to consider this fact by drawing up the menu and enter special additives into forages.
5. In the spring of a chicken, as well as all living beings, test avitaminosis therefore they need fertilizing by vitamins. The easiest to make it, having wetted barley or wheat, and having allowed them to sprout. Such forage will be not only useful, but also will be to the taste to birds. Though they and hens, but they like to regale too.