How to select high-quality chicks? Master these purchasing tips

To raise high-quality chickens, you need high-quality chicks. Experienced chicken farmers all have their own insights on selecting chicks, so how do these farmers make their judgments? You must be eager to know. Let's take a look below at what aspects we can judge from when selecting chicks, so as to pick out high-quality ones.

1. Select breeds according to your needs

When raising chickens, farmers must first determine their farming direction before starting to select chicks. Farming directions can basically be divided into three types: first, raising broiler chickens; second, raising laying hens; third, selling chicks. Each of the three has its own advantages. Choose the corresponding breed according to your own needs, and only then can the later results possibly meet your requirements. If you originally wanted to raise broilers but ended up choosing some breeds leaning toward laying hens, then there will certainly be regrets in terms of meat production later on.

2. Strong adaptability

Once the farming direction is determined, you can select breeds. Farmers can give priority to judging by adaptability, because after all, if the chicks you buy back are not suited to the local growing conditions, then don't expect them to produce any value. It is recommended that farmers buy a portion in advance to raise and test. If everything is fairly normal within 3-5 days and nothing unusual happens, then it shows that the chicks there are relatively high quality, at least in terms of adaptability, and are very suitable for raising in your location.

3. Appearance

High-quality chicks can also be roughly judged to some extent by their appearance. They will give you a very spirited feeling, with high vitality, and the distance between them and other chicks will be a bit greater than those of poorer quality, and the whole chick cage will be relatively noisy, with crisp sounds. When you catch them by hand, they run extremely fast, and after being caught in your hand they will struggle strongly, and their bodies still look fairly plump under the covering of down, with strong claws. These are generally the conditions that high-quality chicks possess.

4. Condition of the mother

High-quality chicks born from high-quality mothers will be relatively much more numerous, so if you are buying in very large quantities, it is best to understand what the daily farming conditions of that sales site are like. If the disease incidence rate at this chicken farm has always been relatively low, and the chick management is extremely well done, then the probability of them being high quality is relatively ideal.

The above are some things you can refer to when selecting high-quality chicks. Only with comparison can you choose better things for yourself, so when farmers select chicks they can look into several places, and they must compare the same breed, and then make a final choice.