Article acquaints the reader with recommendations of experts on the care of chickens.
MAINTENANCE of CHICKENS
Good advice
Cultivation of a bird in a personal economy if it is correctly to organize it, can become reliable help to the house budget.
Where to buy?
Daily chickens can be bought at inkubatorno-poultry-farming station, to deduce under a brood hen or in a household incubator. It is best of all to buy young growth at station from March to July. Chickens of egg breeds select for cultivation in 12-14 hours after a conclusion, and myasoyaichny – in 16-20 hours. At earlier age it is difficult to define signs of healthy chickens.
How to make a right choice?
For cultivation select only healthy (konditsionny) chickens. They are mobile, actively react to a sound, strong stand on the feet, have the soft, picked-up stomach, the closed, well involved umbilical cord, a pure pink foul place, soft, equal, brilliant, well pigmented down, the big wide head, shining eyes, the short, thick beak, wings densely pressed to a trunk. Feet and a beak should be yellow color that testifies that they are deduced from eggs of the hens receiving forages, rich with carotene. And it is a reliable sign of their viability. The average mass of a daily chicken makes 34 – 40 g depending on breed, age and cross-country of hens. The young growth with insignificant deviations from norm demands the best leaving, especially in the first days of life.
Transportation conditions
Transport chickens in the pure, disinfected baskets, special cardboard or plywood boxes, boxes. The size of a box for 100 chickens should be such: length and width of 60 cm, height – 18 see. A box divide into four sections. On its cover and in walls at height of 12 cm from a bottom do round openings in diameter of 2 cm for ventilation. Corners in a box approximate to warn a young growth skuchivaniye. On a bottom lay a soft laying (from chaff straw). 25-30 chickens sit down in each section. It is important to place boxes correctly. Them put exactly that chickens didn’t roll down and didn’t press each other. The temperature in boxes should be 30-32 °. Some time it is supported at such level at the expense of heat which is allocated by chickens. In transit chickens in open cars or other transport in cold weather a box cover with canvas or a blanket so that to it fresh air arrived. It is best of all to transport chickens in the morning or in the evening in the summer. Periodically it is necessary to check a condition of chickens. If they sit with opened klyuvikami and pant, means, to it hot if flock – cold.
Maintenance of chickens
Grow up chickens on a floor on a deep laying, in cages or a mesh floor. In 3-4 days prior to reception of chickens check all equipment, in days – indoors create necessary temperature. Indicators of temperature and humidity of air check by means of the thermometer and psixrometra which attach on height of 0,5 m from a floor. Feeding troughs and drinking bowls establish equally spaced one from another.
Some hours prior to landing in feeding troughs fill up forages, and in drinking bowls pour pure, fresh water.
Chickens of meat breeds at daily age weigh 35-40 g, and in a 60-daily allowance already 1,2-1,6 kg. Each chicken layer at high-grade feeding takes down 220-240 eggs in a year.
(On magazine materials Priusadebnoye an economy)