Technical Guidelines and Rearing Management Points for Raising Chickens Under the Forest
SummarySelecting the breeding site: Raising chickens under the forest requires choosing a ventilated, sunny woodland with convenient drainage and easy transportation. Building the chicken coop: The coop needs to be divided into a chick room, a laying room, and a hatching room, and only simple construction is needed. Selecting the breed: Choose chicken breeds with strong environmental adaptability. Daily management: The indoor temperature for raising chicks should be kept at around 30°C. After one month of rearing, they can be released for free-range raising, and their ability to find food on their own should be trained. Disease prevention and control: Add deworming medicine to the feed, strengthen environmental hygiene, and disinfect regularly.
1. Selecting the breeding site
Chickens can be raised in a ventilated, sunny woodland. It requires convenient transportation, good drainage conditions, relatively lush tree growth in the woodland, and a large flat, open area, so that the chicken coop can be built directly there.
2. Building the chicken coop
1. Building the chicken coop is relatively simple; it only needs to give the chickens a place to rest at night. First, use bricks and wood to build a frame, then leave a door for entry and exit, and finally surround the sides and top with plastic film and secure it.
2. The size of the chicken coop can be determined according to the specific scale of raising. In addition, the coop built should be divided into a chick room, a laying room, a hatching room, and so on.
3. Breed selection and raising
1. When raising chickens under the forest, be sure to choose chicken breeds with relatively strong environmental adaptability, such as local native chickens.
2. With the development of artificial large-scale farming, many chickens grow relatively quickly under artificial rearing, and a chicken can be sold in 1-2 months, but there are also many problems, such as safety hazards. Therefore, many people now go to the countryside to buy raised native chickens or domestic chickens, which are not only rich in nutrients and better in taste, but also reassuring to eat.
4. Daily management
1. Generally, chickens can be placed under the forest during the Qingming season. Chicks can be hatched by oneself or purchased from the market.
2. First, do the preparatory work for feeding the chicks well, and keep the indoor temperature for raising chicks at around 30°C. In order to enhance the chicks' disease resistance, an appropriate amount of vitamins and antibiotics can be added during feeding.
3. After the chicks have been raised for about 30 days, they can be released for free-range raising. First train their foraging habits. Two people cooperate in the training: one is responsible for feeding, and the other drives the flock, so that the chickens develop the habit of scrambling for food. Then gradually reduce the amount of feeding, especially the amount fed in the morning, so that the chickens can find food on their own during the day, and an appropriate amount of feed can be given at night. This is more conducive to promoting rapid growth of the chickens.
5. Disease prevention and control
1. Parasites are the main disease problem in raising chickens under the forest, because the chickens forage on their own in the woods and eat relatively many insects, and insects can carry relatively many parasites. Therefore, an appropriate amount of deworming medicine can be added to the feed.
2. In addition, the sanitary environment of the chicken coop and the forest floor needs to be strengthened, and disinfection should be carried out regularly and at fixed times. This can prevent infectious diseases and is more conducive to the healthy growth of the flock.