The diet of little chickens differs from diet of adult hens a little. In process of growing of young growth it changes and gradually approaches on the structure forage for adult birds. That chickens have grown healthy them it is necessary to feed correctly, and, above all in time and with addition of all necessary elements which contribute to the normal growth and the development of young growth.
Instruction
1. The first feeding of just hatched chickens has to consist of the eggs crushed and rolled in semolina hard-boiled. Glance for kids, they can choke with unusual product, they did not eat anything similar earlier. It is necessary to feed kids 8 times a day approximately at the same time. Give only fresh and qualitative forage, otherwise kids can die.
2. For the second and third day of life of baby birds give them curdled milk and bread soaked in milk and slightly the released from liquid. In the next several days add razvarenny millet and grits to diet of chickens. If you have cornmeal, mix small portions of valuable product with the main forage of kids, from it they will begin to grow quicker.
3. Approximately from the sixth day begin to give to kids mineral additives. For example, small crushed shell of eggs, shell or wood ashes. It is necessary for them for the healthy growth of bone tissue and forming of plumage.
4. From the tenth day you transfer chickens to six times feeding, but meanwhile do not change diet. Give now not boiled millet. Do not exclude eggs and other additives from power supply of young birds. Only now the dry component of forage has to be in bigger volume and occupy about 70% of all diet.
5. From the twentieth day you transfer young growth to the combined forages for bird. Then smoothly you enter whole grain, but do not forget to watch that in feeding troughs there was always fresh water, hens sometimes spill it.
6. Give to the grown-up young growth greens in the summer or let out them to walk to the open shelter, but freely nevertheless it is impossible to release, they will spoil all harvest if reach kitchen garden. Already by cold weather the chickens will grow and will turn into adult birds which can already be hammered and eaten. The weight of the young growth which is grown up since the beginning of spring and till fall reaches 1.5-2 kg, and sometimes more.