Hens are the most widespread and unpretentious bird in the yards of rural houses and at dachas of citizens. Hens of egg breeds lay many eggs, meat hens quickly gain weight and reach the impressive sizes. Cultivation of egg and meat breeds, such as New Hampshire, a plimutrok, Cornysh, Rhode Island, etc. will be the most optimal variant. These birds are capable to provide with eggs all the year round, and at a face give a good carcass.
Instruction
1. To be engaged in cultivation of hens, it is necessary to build the hen house. It can be the shed which is easy for hammering together from cheap material. The main thing that there was no draft. The room needs to be equipped with nests and perches. For walking of a bird near the hen house fence with a grid the spacious place and put feeding troughs with drinking bowls.
2. It is possible to get young growth of hens and to begin to receive quickly ready products. And it is more favorable to buy daily allowance chickens and to grow up them. And that and others it is better to buy on poultry farms where all bird is sold by already imparted and there will be no substitution to breed.
3. Little daily chickens are supported at first in the warm room under the heating device providing temperature in 29-33 degrees. The first week feeding of daily chickens has to be carried out in two hours by cottage cheese, boiled egg, millet, the unfinished forage is deleted surely. Put clear water.
4. In a week temperature of the heater can be reduced by 4 degrees. Feeding of chickens is carried out in three hours by porridges from compound feeds, add a chopped small grass, separately put river sand, chalk, charcoal. The forage has to be friable with low moisture content. Chickens are often submitted for walk.
5. To twenty-day age of chickens it is possible to contain at 20-22 degrees Celsius, they can walk long in the fenced place. Feed them with damp bourgeoises and dry compound feed. Also to continue to put separately sand, chalk, a corner. When chickens feather, transfer them to the hen house.
6. At the correct cultivation at the age of 4-5 months the young chickens begin to rush. Select the most productive copies with a good constitution and leave for further cultivation, and fatten the others for a face.