In the process of using chicken battery cages to raise chickens, many chicken farmers have heard of the term feeding management. So, how do we understand the meaning of this word? In fact, this is a big problem.
If you are an inexperienced farmer, you can understand the feeding management as: the process and operation guide of chicken raising.
For example, what to do before entering the chicken, how to start the food, what is the immunization process, how to vaccinate, how to feed the feed, how to do the daily light and ventilation, and how to control the humidity and temperature. How to prevent and diagnose chicken disease, how to treat chicken disease after it is diagnosed, how to choose the method of drug administration, and how to deal with some situations (such as chicken pecking, etc.). All of the above are the work content of breeding management. In other words, the feeding management process of raising chickens is the whole process of raising chickens.
If you are a chicken farmer with a certain amount of experience, the nature of feeding management has become a few keywords, which the author personally summarizes as: “details”, “standardization”, and “process-oriented”.
The extensive chicken raising model is difficult to meet the above key words. Although it can be regarded as raising, it is difficult to rise to the word “management”. In this case, chicken diseases occur frequently, the mortality rate is high, and the cost is not low. Therefore, the essence of feeding management is to reduce the cost and risk of raising chickens, and the above words are the core essentials.
What should be the duration of light, how to set the temperature and humidity, how much water and feeding, how to set the time of drinking and feeding, and the amount of medicine used for immunity and treatment. All of the above must have strict standards, and this standard must be very detailed, not a relatively large interval that can be determined by so-called experience. This is standardization and detail.
The so-called process is a set of standard processes from entering the chicken to the slaughter. In short, what should be done at any time. When this set of procedures is summarized, chickens will be raised in accordance with this procedure in the future, and the probability of errors in the process of raising chickens will be much smaller. Of course, proceduralization and standardization and details are strictly unified and complement each other.
For chickens, feeding management is a very long breeding process. At present, many people have begun to use poultry farming equipment to raise chickens, so it saves a lot of tedious processes and makes people more worry-free and effortless.