Practical Tips for Saving Feed in Chicken Raising

Choose and raise excellent breeds. Chickens of excellent breeds not only have good production performance, but also have a high feed conversion rate.

Use complete feed. Complete feed is comprehensive and balanced in nutrition; feeding chickens with complete feed will not cause waste of nutritional components.

Implement restricted feeding. For medium-sized laying hens, the restricted feeding amount during the growing period is 85%-90% of the chickens' free intake, and the restricted feeding amount during the middle and late laying periods is about 95% of the free intake.

Control the environmental temperature. Too high or too low an environmental temperature will cause feed waste, so in winter pay attention to cold protection and warmth, and keep the house temperature above 10°C; in summer pay attention to heat protection and cooling, and keep the house temperature below 28°C.

Beak trimming at the right time. Beak trimming can both prevent pecking vice and reduce feed waste. For laying hens, beak trimming should be done at 6-9 days of age or 12-14 weeks of age; during the laying period, beak trimming is generally not done.

Promptly cull chickens with no economic value. Diseased, weak, disabled, low-yielding, and out-of-production chickens should be discovered early and culled promptly.

Store feed scientifically. Feed storage should prevent theft by rats, eating by birds, caking from moisture, and mildew.

Do not add too much feed at one time. Adding too much feed at one time will increase feed waste. It is advisable to add no more than 1/3 of the trough depth at one time, and prevent large chickens from eating from small troughs and small chickens from eating from large troughs.

Use additives reasonably. Some additives can significantly improve feed utilization and should be correctly selected and used.

Deworm promptly. Deworming and disease prevention for chickens in a timely manner can reduce invisible feed consumption.