In the process of raising the laying hens, the farmers will inevitably have some misunderstandings. If these misunderstandings cannot be corrected in time, it will affect the economic benefits of the farmers. In order to avoid the loss of economic benefits of farmers, today, for the farmers, sum up the some misunderstandings that farmers often have when using poultry farming equipment to raise chickens.
1. Look at the market and raise chicken
In the process of raising chickens, farmers often choose to raise chickens when the egg price is high due to the trend of economic interests. When the egg price is low, they choose not to raise or raise less. With the changes in the market in recent years, the experience judgment of some farmers has failed. This reminds the farmers that when using poultry farming equipment to raise chickens, it is necessary to formulate a breeding plan based on the reasonable conditions of the farm’s equipment.
2. Ignore the elimination of sick chickens
Farmers are reluctant to eliminate some of the diseased chickens, low-yield chickens, and defective chickens that appear in the flock because of cost. This will not only save costs, but will increase the chances of transmission of infectious diseases in the flock, and even cause the death of a large number of laying hens and increase costs.
3. Ignore the breeding of bred chicken
In the chicken breeding stage, the weight or uniformity of the chicken is not enough. The farmer thinks that it is only necessary to catch up before the start of production. This idea is wrong. If the feed level is low during the laying stage of the laying hen, it will cause skeletal dysplasia of the laying hen, and there will be a phenomenon of rectal prolapse, small egg weight and high mortality during egg laying.
4. See the price of chicks
Farmers have the idea of saving the cost of pre-breeding from the beginning of raising chickens. Therefore, when buying chickens, they rush to buy low-priced chicks. Finally, because the quality of the chicks is not good, the breeding fails. Therefore, this requires that farmers must go to the epidemic prevention and management formalities when purchasing chicken seedlings, and provide large-scale manufacturers that can provide livestock and poultry production and operation licenses, veterinary health permits, and introduction certificates.
5. Ignore the drinking water of the chickens
Water is the source of life and plays an important role in the healthy growth of laying hens. Farmers add the same amount of water as the feeding time when feeding the chickens. It is sometimes wrong to find that the chickens are draining the dung. Severe water shortage in the flock will affect the digestion and absorption of other nutrients, resulting in poor development of the flock.
6. Roughly choose chicken feed
Some farmers only judge the good or bad of the feed from the appearance of the feed. When selecting feed, the level of crude protein is the performance, the key is to look at the amount of essential amino acids in the feed. If the crude protein content of the chicken feed is the same and the raw materials are different, the absorption utilization rate of the chicken flock is also very different.
The above is a summary of the breeding habits that farmers often have when using poultry battery cages to raise chickens. I hope that through today’s summary, we can help farmers avoid it in the future feeding process.