How to select high-quality chicks? Keep these precautions in mind

For poultry farmers to achieve success in breeding, the selection of high-quality chicks plays a key role. Only by selecting high-quality chicks can the healthy and robust growth of the chickens be guaranteed. So what are the prerequisites that high-quality chicks should have? The summary is as follows:

1. Choose a breeding farm whose breeding chickens have high production performance, strong vitality, and relatively complete immunization work against various epidemic diseases. The chicks hatched by such a breeding farm have relatively high and consistent maternal antibodies against some common and important epidemic diseases.

2. When selecting chicks, pay attention to the body size being relatively uniform, so as to avoid, as much as possible, an uneven flock.

3. When selecting chicks, they should have large and spirited eyes, abundant energy, be lively and active, react quickly, have crisp calls, be able to stand and walk steadily when held in the hand, struggle and kick their legs strongly, have round and moist legs and claws without dryness or dehydration, and have no deformities.

4. The down should be clean and glossy, the abdomen moderate in size, and the umbilical cord well healed. Tian Yahui