Today the phrase "broiler chickens" is quite distributed. This type of meat enjoys wide popularity, however some buyers mistrustfully treat broiler chickens as do not know what is meant by similar terminology.
What is "broilers"The term "broiler" in translation from the English word "broil" is meant by "frying on a brazier or a spit" on which usually prepare young chickens. Therefore broiler chickens, generally call young chickens weighing up to 2 kilograms or the live / slaughtered cockerels. Their meat possesses high dietary, nutritious and tastes, in comparison with adult hens.
Broiler chickens are especially useful to children, teenagers, athletes and also elderly and sick people.
Broilers grow up from special breeds of meat hens which of eggs the chickens having high viability, rapid growth and a fleshy little body are brought. Such breeds are white Cornysh and "A white plimutrok". In industrial production they are usually crossed among themselves therefore excellent perfect broilers turn out. In the conditions of amateur production only white plimutrok which chickens are grown up for the purpose of receiving meat suit for contents.
Cultivation of broilersBroiler chickens are grown up indoors and seldom walked as at unlimited walkings they badly grow. Besides, broilers do not need perches. When using an elektrobruder of broiler chickens it is possible to grow up in the summer kitchen, on a verandah or in the shed, having placed on 1 square meter of a floor from 8 to 9 heads. The room at the same time has to be light, dry and closed from drafts, and a floor is disinfected by special means.
In homestead conditions during the warm period of year it is possible to receive from one broiler chicken layer about 70 chickens (85-100 kilograms of dietary meat).
At cultivation of broilers, forages on which quality depend viability, growth and meat of chickens are crucial. Factory compound feed in which all types of vitamins, minerals and nutrients are balanced is the most suitable for them. However well broilers grow also on the mixed sterns prepared in house conditions. Have to enter such mix: dert corn, wheat, oat, barley, cake sunflower, fish or meat and bone meal, cottage cheese, fresh or inoculated milk and also baking yeast. Broiler chickens should not be limited in approach to a forage, and in a drinking bowl at them fresh clear water has to be always poured. It is also very important to watch that forages did not sour in feeding troughs.