With the use of chicken cage equipment, farmers are well aware of the daily life of the chickens. Every day, the chickens must be given enough nutrients and reasonable allocation of feed. But configuring the feed is not an easy task, and you must be proficient in the preparation techniques. The author below tells you how to use the chicken in a chicken cage to prepare the feed.
(1) Nutrition Principles of Chicken Cage
1. When preparing the diet, it must be based on the feeding standard of the chicken, and combined with the growth and production performance of the chicken in the feeding practice. It was found that the nutritional level in the diet was low or high and should be adjusted appropriately.
2. When preparing the diet, pay attention to the diversification of the feed, and use as many feeds as possible. This is conducive to the formulation of nutritionally complete diets, giving full play to the complementary effects of proteins in various feeds, which is conducive to improving the digestibility of the diet and the utilization of nutrients.
3. When preparing the diet, there are many nutrient items to be contacted, such as energy, protein, various amino acids, various minerals, etc., but first of all to meet the energy needs of the chicken, then consider the protein, and finally adjust the mineral and vitamin nutrition.
(2) Physiological principles of using poultry farming battery cages to raise layer chickens
1. When formulating the diet, it is necessary to select suitable feeds according to the different physiological characteristics of various types of chickens, especially to control the content of crude fiber in the diet so that it does not exceed 5%.
2. The prepared diet should have good palatability. The feed used should be of good quality to ensure that the diet is non-toxic, harmless, not bitter, unpalatable, mildewed, and non-polluting.
3. The type of feed used to prepare the diet is intended to remain relatively stable. If the type of feed and the proportion of the mixture need to be changed, it should be gradually changed to give the chicken an adaptation process.
Economic Principles In the production of chickens, feed costs account for a large proportion, and generally account for 70%-80% of the cost of raising chickens. Therefore, when formulating the diet, we should try our best to take local materials and make full use of the nutrient-rich and low-cost feed to match the diet to reduce production costs and improve economic benefits.