How can chicken farming be both efficient and safe? Key points explained

1. Secrets to increasing egg production in summer

In summer, chickens reduce their feed intake, and egg production drops or even stops. To restore normal egg production, besides measures to prevent heatstroke and lower the temperature, trimming the chickens' feathers is also an effective method, namely cutting off the feathers on the chickens' chest, legs and left and right wings, while keeping the feathers on the neck, back and tail. The principle for the trimming length is not to damage the chicken skin and not to let fluid flow from the cut ends of thick feather shafts. Trim less in early summer and more in midsummer.

2. Best feeding times

Chickens have two feeding peaks in a day. One is 2~3 hours after sunrise, when they consume 1/3 of their feed in the morning. Feeding at this time can greatly increase the laying rate. It can be seen that for laying hens, feeding twice, at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., gives the best results.

3. Key points for saving feed in chicken farming

The yolk and albumen of eggs are formed during the day, while the eggshell is formed in the afternoon and at night. For laying hens, feed twice a day: in the morning give high-protein, high-energy, low-calcium feed, and in the evening give low-protein, low-energy, high-calcium feed. This can not only regulate the laying period and increase egg production, but also save feed.

4. Methods to keep chickens laying at a high rate

If the body weight of the flock is not increasing normally. Even if the current egg production and feed conversion are both high, there is a potential downward trend in egg production. Before egg production declines, the weight problem can be corrected by increasing consumption. If feed consumption is already clearly at a high level, that only means much feed is being consumed, or at least indicates low feed conversion. If feed is clearly at a relatively low level, while the flock's body weight is still increasing normally and a relatively high egg production is maintained, then it can be maintained and good profits can be made.

5. Secrets to hatching more hens

If the breeding egg is short and oval, with one end larger and one end smaller, forming an inverted triangle, and with a fine surface, most of the chicks hatched are hens; if the breeding egg is long and angular-round, with the head and tail difficult to distinguish, and with a rough surface, most of the chicks hatched are roosters.

6. Key points for storing breeding eggs

When storing breeding eggs, the pointed end of the egg should face upward. This can keep the yolk in the center of the egg, prevent embryo adhesion, and improve the hatchability of breeding eggs.

7. Methods to enhance egg color

Adding 0.3% red chili powder, 6% sun-dried and crushed alfalfa leaves, or 5% pine needle powder to the daily ration can all deepen the yolk color.

8. Key points for identifying male and female chicks

Spread open a chick's wings. If the wing feathers (primary feathers) are one long and one short (that is, feathers of alternating lengths), it is a hen. If all the feathers are basically the same length, it is a rooster. The accuracy rate is above 90%.

9. Secrets to preventing chicken plague

When chicks grow to 10~14 days of age, use chicken plague IN strain vaccine for nasal drops, and at the same time use inactivated chicken plague vaccine (available at local veterinary stations) 0.3 milliliters for intramuscular injection. At 70 days of age, use chicken plague strain I vaccine for intramuscular injection. At 120 days of age, inject chicken plague vaccine I again, and at the same time use inactivated chicken plague vaccine 1 milliliter for intramuscular injection once. The protection rate can reach 100%.