The rooster is of great importance for high-quality production of posterity. Therefore selection of young growth and its correct cultivation - good pledge in the future to have qualitative posterity. For cultivation of young cockerels there are certain rules.
Instruction
1. First, before cultivation of young growth it is necessary to prepare the room. For this purpose remove old dung and garbage, wash walls, whitewash svezhegasheny lime all room.
2. Disinfect all stock which you will use for feeding.
3. Provide the room with heating and sufficient lighting. In the first days temperature has to be not lower than 24 degrees, and lighting round-the-clock. After two-week age light can be reduced till 12-14 o'clock in day.
4. Think over free access to forage. Each chicken requires about 2.5 cm of feeding trough. With age increase this distance.
5. If the room has one small window, make it opening, it will provide continuous ventilation and inflow of fresh air.
6. Indoors surely put deep laying.
7. Think over the place for walking of young growth. Begin to let out little cockerels on walk from week age if on the street clear and warm weather. At first time of walk is several minutes, every day increase it.
8. In the first two weeks you feed chickens with the eggs hard-boiled, adding various greens (nettle, green onions, dandelion leaves). Add home-made cottage cheese, the welded millet. At sterns there have to be mineral substances and vitamins. To receive the balanced diet, to two-week age give forage every three hours, increase the periods between feedings further. At monthly age young growth 3-4 times a day usually feed. It is very useful to add fresh grated carrots, clover, lucerne to forages. For this purpose mix them with the crushed corn and special compound feeds which are produced for various age number of young growth.
9. From the grown-up young growth at two-month age select those which more are suitable for production of posterity. It have to be cockerels with the most expressed secondary sexual characteristics. Give preference to bird with bright red crest, brilliant plumage, magnificent tail. It is considered that the good manufacturing rooster has to have not less than seven jags on crest.