To be engaged in chicken farming – business troublesome, but very fascinating. If you bought little chickens, or your layer just about will become a mom, then it is necessary to know what you will face. Care for young growth is divided into two periods: keeping of chickens (at the age of 1-8 weeks of life) and care for young hens (from 9 to 20 weeks of life). How it is correct to grow up chickens?
It is required to you
- - room for chickens;
- - feeding troughs and drinking bowls;
- - special forages;
- - the fenced-off walking.
Instruction
1. Buy strong and healthy chickens. The good chicken has to be mobile, stand strong on legs, have shining eyes and klyuvik yellow color. The stomach of a strong chicken is picked up, and wings are densely pressed to a body.
2. Prepare for chickens the warm, previously disinfected room without drafts. On a floor fill up a flooring from small shaving. Even if chickens with a hen, the first few days the room should be heated. When keeping chickens without hen support temperature condition before achievement by birds of age of 40 days. The first week to chickens organize the round-the-clock lighting.
3. You support a hen with chickens separately from adult birds. You watch that in a tsyplyatnik predators did not get: cats, rats, caress, polecats. Equip to a bird the separate protected walking with a green grass. 1-2 sq.m of walking have to fall on 1 chicken. You watch that chickens did not go outside, dew did not descend yet.
4. Make separate feeding troughs and drinking bowls for young growth. For a large number of chickens it is worth establishing nippelny automatic drinking bowls. Week chickens feeders have to be flat, but the forage should not be trampled in them. Remember that feeding troughs there has to be enough. It is impossible to allow crowdings or sequences in feeding. All chickens have to eat at the same time.
5. Prepare special forages. The forage for chickens contains a large amount of proteins and vitamins. If chickens with a hen, then at first feed a hen. Feeding of chickens is carried out by each 2 hours. It is necessary to add the crushed eggs, a shell, fresh curdled milk and cottage cheese, white loaf, boiled potatoes to compound feeds. Gradually from the shattered and razvarenny grain of chickens you transfer to whole grain. The forage has to be eaten in 20 min. To inadmissibly give to a bird mouldy forages. Establish in a tsyplyatnik of a feeding trough with mineral additives: shell rock, chalk.
6. On walking for young growth organize sand bathtubs. On a bucket of ashes add 2 buckets of sand. Chickens like to bathe in a sunny weather in such bathtubs.