What factors affect the success rate of free-range chicken farming?

To promote the development of local animal husbandry, many places have started free-range chicken farming. To further advance the local economy, it is necessary to identify the factors constraining the success rate of free-range chicken farming and improve them, so as to fundamentally increase the speed of free-range chicken farming. So what exactly are the factors affecting the success rate of free-range chicken farming? Let's take a look together with the editor of Gensui Tuliuwang~

Factors affecting the success rate of free-range chicken farming

1. The selected free-range chicken breed is unreasonable

1. First, when purchasing free-range chicken chicks, farmers often choose eggs from chickens kept completely free-range in each household due to insufficient knowledge about the chicks. Although these free-range chickens are native breeds, they lack scientific management and professional rearing, and are characterized by low survival rates and low egg-laying rates, making successful hatching difficult.

2. Second, because no distinction was made when purchasing the chicks, the chick breeds differ, which causes differences in the growth periods of the chicks, so chicks of the same batch vary in size. These factors all affect the success rate of free-range chicken farming.

2. Improper selection of the site for free-range chicken farming

1. When choosing a site for free-range chicken farming, many farmers, in order to save on farming costs, choose mountain shrublands and the like. Because the environment is complex, the free-range chickens easily get lost in them and are also vulnerable to attacks by wild animals, which not only affects the success rate of free-range chicken farming but also causes certain economic losses for the farmers.

2. In addition, some chicken coops are built in remote areas. Due to the lack of an adequate water source, supplying drinking water to the free-range chickens requires manually carrying water, which not only affects the healthy growth of the free-range chickens but also restricts coop hygiene, easily causing infections in the free-range chickens due to the poor living environment and harming their healthy growth.

3. Lack of scientific management and disease prevention

1. Due to strong policy support, combined with the low-cost, high-return characteristics of free-range chicken farming, many farmers buy large quantities of chicks at one time. On the one hand, if the site is small and the number of chicks exceeds what the site can accommodate, the growth of the chicks will be constrained; at the same time, because the number is too large, management oversights easily occur, raising the mortality rate of the free-range chickens. On the other hand, to meet the site needs of a large number of free-range chickens, vast spaces for them are built. Although this can ensure the range of activity and the natural ecology of the free-range chickens, it easily causes the chickens to fail to return in time at feeding time, resulting in insufficient nutrient intake.

2. Many farmers believe that raising free-range chickens is the same as raising farmyard chickens. They often use broken rice, corn kernels and the like as feed and add no other nutrients at all, which easily causes nutritional imbalance in the free-range chickens.

3. At the same time, many farmers do not realize the importance of disease prevention; some even do not vaccinate and only start using medication once the free-range chickens show symptoms, which not only affects the egg-laying rate of the free-range chickens but also increases their mortality rate.

Alright, the above are the factors affecting the success rate of free-range chicken farming brought to you by the editor of Tuliuwang. We hope it is helpful to everyone. Friends who like it are welcome to follow Tuliuwang. See you next time.