The chickens brought in incubator require thorough care that healthy and strong birds have grown from young growth. The bruder will help to provide comfortable conditions to baby birds without hen.
Bruder is the device for chickens, gooses, ducklings and other young growth which warms them in the first weeks of life and protects from various infections. This design is similar to box, in it the favorable microclimate for cultivation of young growth is created: optimum temperature, humidity and lighting.
What is bruder?
Bruder — the design closed from all directions and protecting from drafts. However it is untight, in it there are always slots to provide air exchange. In floor there is perforation with pallet that inside there was no dung. In tsyplyatnik establish feeding trough, drinking bowl, lamp and the heater.
All bruder equip with temperature regulators with temperature recorders which can work with cooling devices also. Both the digital, and analog option will be suitable for tsyplyatnik. These devices watch microclimate inside: if in bruder is warmer, the cooler turns on if is colder — the heater.
The majority of tsyplyatnik make of sheet galvanized steel as this material is strong, reliable and durable. But it is possible to find plastic and wooden devices in sale.
What the bruder is necessary for?
The layer cares for the hatched baby birds, but if they have appeared in incubator, then the only exit — to buy bruder. Its main task is to provide to young growth comfortable and safe conditions of keeping.
That chickens have grown healthy, they need the correct leaving. Cultivation in bruder will help to avoid infectious diseases, and birds will well gain weight. At regular cleaning of this design it will be possible to fence chickens from parasites.
That in the cloudy summer baby birds did not suffer from the shortage of sunshine and vitamin D, have not got sick with rickets, in lodge establish intensive lighting and the heater. It is better to keep fowls in bruder with glass, they will be able to bask in the sun, and it will be simpler to owner to observe and look after them.
How to grow up chickens in bruder?
That to chickens it was comfortable, the hen house always has to be clean. Poultry breeders cannot often solve one problem: it is necessary to clean constantly floor and walls of bruder from dung. That it was easier to look after tsyplyatnik, it is necessary to make pallet with walls about 10 cm high. As flooring on pallet it is possible to fill bank sand.
With growth of hens the size of bruder can be increased: to release young growth to walk, and to establish drinking bowl and feeding trough near design. That chickens did not run up on walk, the territory around bruder needs to be fenced, and to leave door of the hen house open that baby birds could return to the house at any time.