Chicken care

Caring for chickens in the first period of life with the help of the zooms significantly facilitates the task of cultivation. She worries about to heat them, teach looking for food and water, protect against predators.

The first 2-3 days the poles with chickens contain indoors. In the following days, with good warm weather, they are involved in walking. To do this, in the courtyard it is wallped in a pen, equip it with feeders and drinking, shadow canopy from the heat. The chapter and chickens are getting used to the pen and after staying on the walking on their own returned to it for feeding. For the night, the punch with chickens drive into the room. Approximately 4-intensis chickens can do without honey.

If the chickens are grown in the first days of life without a zeal, to ensure their heat fit the drawer or a cardboard box. In the box with a size of 40x40x30 cm, it is possible to contain about 40 chickens to one month. The bottom of the box is covered with several paper layers, removing the top layer daily, contaminated with the litter. From above, the drawer is covered with a lid, he assumes it so that enough air has been received. For heating in the drawer lid, you can fix two electrical bulbs on 25 W and adjust the temperature to turn off one of them and the displacement of the box cover. For heating, a table lamp with a metal lamp is also convenient, located on a flexible swivel leg, which allows you to adjust the height of the lighting of the bulb. Water heating pads can be used for heating chickens.

The air temperature in the first five days needs to be maintained at 32-30 ° C, from the sixth to the tenth 29-26, in the next ten days 25-23,. Then on the 40th day 19-17 ° C. On the behavior of chickens it is easy to install whether the desired temperature is observed. If they are bored, they are angry, reluctantly and eat little, hence it is cold. At high temperatures, the chickens are trying to remove from the heat source, often breathe, open the beaks, sluggish, relaxed, weakly serve a voice. In the windless sunny days at a temperature above 15 ° C, chickens are released into the yard from a 5-day age. At a lower temperature of the chickens, they put into the yard for 20-30 minutes in the box and put it so; So that the straight rays of the sun fall into it, however, it is necessary to protect them and from overheating, forming a shadow space lid.

In the room, the chickens are located 14-16 heads per 1 mg of the floor. A chopped dry straw, wood chips or sawdust is used as a litter.

Immediately after delivering chickens from an incubator or not less than 6-10 hours after removal under the chickens, it is necessary to feed and drink. In the first five days of life, they are fed every 2 hours, from the sixth to the 20th day - 5 times, and then 4-3 feedings per day are enough.

Initially, the chickens give steeply cooked eggs, in half with crushed corn or wheat, as well as millet. One chicken egg is enough for 10 chickens. The egg can replace 40-50 g of degreased cottage cheese. From the second day of life, the mixture is included in the mixture, nettle, nettle, grated carrots. From the fifth day with a mixture, except cottage cheese, give other protein feeds: the reverse, pointer, prostroprious, coiled meat waste, crushed cake. Route is given only in well-washed. For crushed grain, young people teach gradually. From the tenth day, chickens give boiled potatoes. From a 20-day age, chickens can be puffed all kitchen waste: bread crumbs, porridge, crushed boiled meat and other chickens eagerly eaten if during the day there is a mixture composition during the day.

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