Strictly guard against animal pests when raising chickens in orchards: which fruit trees are suitable for raising chickens underneath?

  Raising chickens in orchards requires strict vigilance against animal pests. When raising chickens outdoors, special attention must be paid to preventing attacks from natural enemies such as rats, weasels, wild dogs, foxes, eagles and snakes. The chicken coop must not be too crude; holes of all sizes in the walls should be plugged promptly, and the doors and windows of the coop should be screened with wire mesh or nylon netting. At the same time, duty shifts and patrols should be strengthened to check for the presence of animals in the free-range area.

 What kind of orchard is suitable for raising chickens

    The orchard chicken-raising model does not have strict requirements for forest and fruit land; pear orchards, peach orchards, trellised vineyards and other economic forests, "four-side" forests (along roads, rivers, homes and ditches), and timber forests can all be used for raising chickens. However, some points must be noted:

    1. Chickens are lively by nature and like to fly up onto tree branches. To avoid affecting tree growth and development, young forest and fruit plots, dwarfed orchards with short tree forms, and gardens are not suitable for raising chickens.

⟧    2. Citrus orchards are not suitable for raising chickens, because: ① Chicken manure put directly into citrus orchards easily causes soil to cake, and the ammonia produced during decomposition also has adverse effects on the growth of citrus trees. ② When chickens scratch the ground with their claws to look for insects to eat, they easily scratch out the citrus roots, damaging the citrus root system, and pests and diseases can also harm the citrus roots exposed above ground.