There are more rainy days in summer, and chickens are prone to various problems. This requires farmers to take some measures.
Prevent water in the chicken house
It is difficult to solve the problem of water in the chicken cages on rainy days. So when building chicken coops, many chicken farmers will take this into consideration and build them in higher ground. But even if there is no water in the chicken cage, the rainy weather will cause the chicken coop to be wet, which will make the chicken easy to get sick. So in this kind of weather, chicken farmers can give the chicken shop some straw to keep the chicken coop dry. But it should be noted that the straw should be replaced in time to keep the chicken coop clean and sanitary.
prevent disease
Rainy weather can easily cause chickens to catch a cold and easily cause chicken disease. Therefore, chicken farmers can give chickens some virus-preventing drugs to do a good job of epidemic prevention. In addition, chicken feed on rainy days is very prone to mold. This requires farmers to check the quality of chicken feed before feeding chickens, because moldy chicken feed can easily cause chickens to get sick.
Emergency measures
When it rains, it is usually accompanied by thunder and lightning, which may cause sudden power outages. When this happens, the breeder must prepare a backup power source in time to continue lighting the chicken farm.
In addition to the above measures, farmers also need to pay attention to the weather forecast at all times, knowing that the epidemic prevention work should be done before the rainy day. Hope every chicken lived in poultry battery chicken cages can get over problems in rain days summer.