Americans Have Clever Tricks for Raising Chickens, and Their Paths to Wealth Are Worth Learning From

1. Lifetime immunity method: When eggs have been incubating for 18 days, pick any point on the eggshell, soften it with acetic acid, and inject a vaccine into the embryo. The chicks that hatch can basically have lifetime immunity.

2. Sugar water supplementation method: Within 15 days after the chicks hatch, add an 8% sucrose solution to their drinking water, and the mortality rate can be reduced by half.

3. Chick comb removal method: When chicks are less than 24 hours old and have not yet eaten, cutting off the combs of female chicks not only saves feed but also prevents various comb injuries in adulthood; after the hens begin laying, the laying rate can also increase by 4%.

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4. Wing clipping fattening method: Select healthy chicks aged 2—20 days. Stop food and water two hours before clipping the wings, and tie the wings tightly with thread in front and back to prevent excessive bleeding. Then use a sterilized knife to remove the wings at the joints, and apply anti-inflammatory powder or mercurochrome to the wounds. After that, place the chickens in a dim, warm, quiet place. Two days later, they can be fed and given water, and after 1 week they can be put back into the flock. These wingless chickens consume less energy, grow quickly, and have tender, plump breast meat, greatly increasing their utility value.

5. Choline supplementation method: Add 0.05% choline to the feed. The laying rate increases, and the average egg weight increases by 2.8 grams.

6. Manganese supplementation in feed method: Add 20-25 mg/kg of manganese to chicken feed, and hens can lay hard-shelled eggs without the eggshell thickness increasing. The breakage rate of these eggs is greatly reduced, making them easier to store and transport.

7. Sunflower feeding method: Mix 8% sunflower or 10% coarse wood shavings powder into the feed of laying hens, and the cholesterol in the egg yolks can be reduced by 13%.

8. Alternating light method: During the first month of laying, change the daylight cycle to 28 hours, and alternate the light at intervals of 12 hours of light and 16 hours of light and darkness. On average, egg production increases by 10%, the eggshells are firm, and few small eggs are laid.

9. Music chicken-raising method: When the chicks are hatching, play the sound of chickens crowing as the chicks break out of their shells. This can make the chicks hatch evenly and improve the hatch rate. Regularly play pleasant serenades that excite the chickens for 12 hours a day, playing for 1 hour and then resting for 1 hour, for 7 consecutive weeks. This method can increase the daily weight gain of broilers by 3%, raise the laying rate of laying hens by 10%, and also save feed.

Editor's comment: Learn from their methods and apply them to your own farming, and you may get unexpected results. Farmers and breeders may want to give them a try.