In 4-6 hours after hatching the chickens learn to peck a pasture. During the first hours lives at young growth continue to develop internals. A lot of energy therefore it is very important to begin to feed chickens as soon as possible is spent for this difficult process.
Researches showed that chickens which began to be fed during the first hours after birth survive 20% more. At the same time it is necessary to consider also quality of the egg put in an incubator if physiological indicators are lower than it norm, chickens will be impractical or to lag behind in development.
Features of feeding
In the first two days the young growth is given the chopped boiled yolk about addition of semolina in a small amount that the forage was rather friable. It is possible to enter well crushed shell previously cleaned from a thin film into a diet.
Brood it is necessary to feed quite often, everyone two, three hours and even at night. As drink use kefir or low-fat curdled milk, but as chickens are not able to handle liquid food yet, it is necessary to use the pipette. In the next three days the diet does not change, behind an exception, the fact that to a yolk it is possible to add the crushed white and to put kefir and clear boiled water in separate drinking bowls. From five-day age the chickens learn to eat small chopped greens: lucerne, feathers of green onions, nettle, clover, wood louse, sorrel leaves. Enter germinated grain and low-fat cottage cheese into a diet. At week age it is necessary to give already friable mixes on curdled milk, fish or meat broths. It is useful to use chicken compound feed with powdered milk. Such mix allows to leave for a long time, having allowed chickens to regulate consumption of food. For the tenth day of life it is possible to enter vegetables into a diet: pumpkin, squash, grated carrots, boiled potatoes. From this day in a separate feeding trough fill up sand or gravel for prevention of gastrointestinal frustration. Give to chickens pounded chalk or a shell. At this age switch over to the feeding mode every four hours, having refused a night feeding up. Gradually the amount of grain in a feeding up is increased. In process of growing the chickens learn to find an additional forage in the fresh air therefore the frequency rate of feedings is reduced.
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Remember that dirty drinking water can become the cause of many infections. Drinking bowls have to be executed so that chickens could not climb there. Water is changed by from two to three times a day, depending on weather and pollution. Drinking bowls need to be cleaned and disinfected every week. And for prevention of infections add weak solution of potassium permanganate to water once in two weeks for half an hour. Purity of a laying is also important for chickens, as well as the correct feeding. In the first days the box bottom where there are chickens, can be laid newspapers or sawdust. As at chickens the lamp is constantly included, it is necessary to change a laying 2–3 times a day.