How to improve the quality of broiler chickens? Master these farming methods

Broiler chickens are a common type of meat in our daily lives, and broiler farming has a very long history in China. However, as demand increases, the scale of farming needs to expand, and to a certain extent, expanding the scale of farming reduces the nutritional value of the chicken. So how can we improve the quality of broiler chickens in the process of large-scale farming? You can try the following methods.

1. Add garlic

Adding an appropriate amount of garlic to the chicken feed is a very traditional method of improving broiler chicken quality. Garlic itself is a strongly flavored ingredient; mixing about 2 percent into the feed every day makes the chicken meat richer in flavor. Most importantly, we all know that chicken meat carries some gaminess, and feeding an appropriate amount of garlic can also eliminate that gaminess, with no adverse effects on the growth of broiler chickens.

2. Add silage

Silage is feed that has completed natural fermentation. When raising broiler chickens, we only need to add 15 percent silage, which can greatly improve the quality of the broiler chickens. When adding silage, we usually mix in 55 to 60 percent straw-type feed, so that the broiler chickens raised this way are close in quality to free-range broiler chickens.

3. Add insect-based feed

Adding insect-based feed is roughly the same as the traditional practice of adding leaf mold. If conditions permit, we only need to buy feed made from earthworms, yellow mealworms, maggots and the like and mix it with ordinary feed for feeding. But if conditions do not permit, we can dig out leaf mold in a vegetable garden or orchard and then mix it with feed for feeding, and broiler chickens raised this way taste very similar to native chickens.

4. Add flavored feed

Adding flavored feed is actually shorthand for adding flavoring agents, special feed and artificial pigments, and it is also a method currently adopted by most farms. However, this method of improving broiler chicken quality is actually not the most ideal result, and the cost is relatively high. Flavoring agents are generally things like scallion powder, dry yeast, monosodium glutamate and table salt. Special feed means dried banana peel, plantain peel, wild grass, thatch and so on. Artificial pigments are actually carotenoids, lutein, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline and the like. These also have no adverse effects on broiler chickens, but the dosage needs attention.

5. Proper free-range raising

Proper free-range raising is essential. This is the simplest method of improving broiler chicken quality, but it is also the most troublesome to manage. We only need to release the broiler chickens to range at fixed times, and during ranging, feed them at set times and set locations, and this will achieve a very good farming result.

The above are a few simple methods for improving quality in broiler chicken farming that the editor wants to share with you today, and they are also the most practical methods in the farming process. I hope they can help you. If you encounter no other problems in the process of raising broiler chickens, you can leave a message directly for the editor for advice.