It is the simplest to grow up the chickens who are under the care of mom hen. More true she will grow up them and without your participation, you will only need to protect young family from cold and attack of predators. And here to grow up an inkubatorsky brood, it is necessary to work much.
Instruction
1. It is the best of all to buy chickens at daily age. During sale and transportation the young growth has a severe stress therefore try to create them the most comfortable conditions at home. In the first 5 days they need to be held at a temperature of 30-32 °C round the clock. As a source of heat it is possible to use the ordinary glow lamp fixed at a certain height from the shelter.
2. The chickens become more senior, the less there is their need for high temperatures. At the age of three weeks it will be quite enough if ambient temperature remains at the level of 22-25 °C.
3. Little chickens have to receive qualitative, rich with protein and vitamins of sterns. Fresh cottage cheese, the hard-boiled eggs, millet, shredded grain – than will be more various than sterns, those more willingly it will be eaten by chickens, and the they will be better to grow. With the day before yesterday it is possible to add a melkorubleny nettle, a lucerne or other greens to fodder mix. You feed them fractionally 5-6 times a day in the small portions. You watch that the forage was eaten completely, at once delete the unfinished remains from the shelter. In the stale forage bacteria, undesirable to young growth, and an infection can develop.
4. From week age it is possible to enter the boiled potatoes mixed with compound feed or tired grain into a chicken diet. The young growth willingly eats such forage, quickly grows, plumage at it becomes smooth and brilliant.
5. You watch that chickens had in continuous access small gravel or clean sand. It is necessary for them for the correct digestion. Drinking bowls for chickens have to be designed so that they had water in continuous access and always remained clean.
6. Chickens willingly drink skim milk and fresh curdled milk, but do not replace with them water, just put in a tsyplyatnik additional capacity for drink and fill up it from time to time.
7. At good leaving and the correct feeding the case of young growth should not exceed 5% of the general livestock. Depending on breed the baby birds reach weight in one and a half kilograms aged from 2 up to 5 months.