Prior to raising chickens, it’s withdraw to fully ready all the textile in addition to technical conditions such as:
- Cages, blinds, air current crank, heating appliances, troughs, drinking troughs. All of them must endure disinfected earlier role from 5-7 days.
- Prepare plenty food, essential medicines for chickens.
- Ensure airy cage inwards summer, warm inwards winter.
- It’s withdraw to ensure the technical rule of the flooring almost the height, drainage capability
- bedding material: husks, chips, 5cm -10 cm thick is sprayed disinfectant earlier use.
- Ensure air circulation inwards the cage.
Cages:
- The cages should endure built on the high, ventilated ground, toward to the due east or southeast to grab the Sun in addition to avoid Sun light. If fully captive, appropriate densities is 8 Individual /m2 (chickens are raised for meat, raising on the inlaid floor) in addition to 10 individual/m2 (chickens are raised for meat, raising on the foundation)
- If raising pasture chicken, cage is the identify to avoid the Sun in addition to pelting overnight, lowest density is 1individual/m2.
- Cage doors toward the south-east. Inlaid flooring made yesteryear trellis or knited bamboo alongside 0,5m pinnacle inwards guild to construct clean easilly, airy in addition to dry.
- Barrier about the garden alongside B40 mesh, nylon mesh, woods or bamboo ... depend on the conditions of each household. Free the chickens on daytime in addition to run along them inwards cage at night.
Cage for infant chickens:
- The dimension of the cage is 2m x1m, leg of the cage 0,5m height. It’s plenty to enhance 100 chickens.
- Use low-cal to warm chickens (2 of 75W low-cal bulbs for 100 chickens)
Trough:
- 1-3 day-life chickens: scatter construct on the lining inwards the cage for chickens.
- 4-14 day-life chickens: role trough of infant chicken
- More than xv day-life chickens: Use hung trough
Water trough:
- Put or hang alternately trough in addition to H2O trough inwards the garden. Change the H2O inwards it 2-3 times/day.
Sand tank, sand-gravel gutter:
- Chickens are real similar sand-bath. It’s should endure built tank alongside sand, cinders in addition to sulphur for pasture chickens. Dimension: 2m long, 1m width, 0,3m high for forty chickens.
- Use some tank of sand or gravel about chicken pasture identify
The perch
The conduct of chickens is sleeping on a high identify at dark to avoid predators, to run along its feet wet, in addition to to avoid infection. Therefore, yous should construct a perch inwards a cage for them.
The perch tin endure made yesteryear bamboo, woods (do non instruct far yesteryear rounded tree because it’s slippery. The distance from the inlaid flooring to the dry reason is almost 0,5m, the distance from each inlaid flooring is almost 0,3-0,4m to cut down the colliding, pecking in addition to stooling to each other.
Nesting places for laying hens should endure made at a dark places. One nesting identify for 5-10 hens.
Garden for pasture: 1 chicken/1m2
2. Choose varieties
Selective breeding of chicks:
- Choose chicken equally evenly equally possible inwards weight.
- Choose those quick, brilliant eyes, cotton wool shaggy-feathers, compact belly, fatty legs.
- Avoid selecting the chicken alongside “dry- legs”, crooked mine, bowed legs, exposed navel, saggy belly, vent alongside gluey wer feathers, saggy-wings, alongside deep dark band about the belly clitoris
Select expert laying hens:
- Chicken is chosen non also thin, non also fat, at 1.6 to 1.7 kg at 20 weeks is real good.
- Small head, evenly brusk mine, crest large, brilliant red.
- Bright eyes, polish feathers shut to the body, evolution of soft belly.
- Fresh pinkish anus broad in addition to wet.
- The distance betwixt the sternum in addition to pelvis width of 3-4 fingers, width betwixt ii pelvis about 2-3 folded fingers
3. Nourishment in addition to care:
Chicks should endure transported inwards the early on morning time or eve to avoid the rainy days or tropical depression. Put chicken inwards the cage, H2O for drinking should endure contained Electrotyle chicken or Vitamin C, alone role cooked brocken-rice or immersed brocken-rice, corn for chickens at to the lowest degree 12 hours, feeding similar to ii days. To twenty-four hours 3, in addition to so mixed alongside increasing amounts of nutrient or self-mixer of secondary waste. Mixing medicines of coccidiosis inwards nutrient from twenty-four hours seven onwards, role Rigecoccin at 1 gr/10 kg nutrient dose (or mix Sulfamid at ratio of 5%). Replace the lining newspaper of the cage in addition to position the construct clean everyday.
Wash the trough, drinking trough, uncovering the status of the chicken, if yous run across whatever upset, moody, yous should split it forthwith for mornitoring.
Use a 75W low-cal bulb for 1m2 of shielded cage to run along warm, depending on the weather condition to arrange the rut yesteryear raising or lowering the pinnacle of the bulb.
Observed if the chickens get together about the bulbs, they are cold; if they avoid the low-cal bulb, they are hot; if they get together inwards the corner, they are existence draughty in addition to if they swallow in addition to walk normally, the proper temperature. Lit throughout the dark for chicken inwards the menstruum to beware of mouse, truthful cat in addition to construct chickens to swallow to a greater extent than food.
Frequently observed manifestation of chickens inwards guild to grip the unexpected happens. Chicken should endure drunkard H2O containing electrolyte or vitamin C when the weather condition changes.
chickens oftentimes swallow in addition to drinkable at the same fourth dimension according to their behavior, hence troughs in addition to H2O troughs should endure placed adjacent to each other to provide plenty H2O for the chickens in addition to restricted chicken to drinkable dingy H2O inwards the garden.
If chickens are raised for meat, produce non cutting mine. For laying hens, to cut down the biting or pecking should cutting mine (just cutting the horns of mine) at calendar week vi or seven
Notice: chickens of unlike sizes should non enhance them together inwards a cage, earlier raising a novel circular should disinfect all cages in addition to tools.
4. Food for chicken:
Chicken is ane of the sensitive animals, absolutely non role rancid foods , fungal infected foods, rotting foods for chickens.
manufacture foods or waste materials products of industrial -agriculture tin endure used for chicken feed but construct certain the components: Energy, protein, minerals in addition to vitamine. Controlling nutrient intake in addition to ensure nutrient lineament alongside reserve chicken to foreclose existence fatty leads to decreased egg production.
For pasture chickens: mineral in addition to vitamin problems for pasture chickens are non equally of import equally chickens are raised inwards cages because they volition automatically search for the body's needs.
After finished the menstruum of infant chicken, the chicken tin swallow to a greater extent than vegetables. Earthworm in addition to the worm are abundant provide of poly peptide for chickens.
- Chicken should drinkable water, swallow corn puree or broken rice at first. To own the appetite of the chicken in addition to run along the nutrient is ever delicious, the nutrient should endure sprayed ane time a little.
- Training for chicken to familiarize alongside the manufacture nutrient into the adjacent day. Should swallow to a greater extent than meals a day, costless food.
If role suspended trough, it should endure regularly constantly monitored in addition to adjusted the pinnacle of the trough for chickens to swallow easilly in addition to cut down nutrient spillage.
Water must endure construct clean in addition to adequate. Chickens volition snuff it without H2O faster than a lack of food.
5. Hygiene in addition to illness prevention:
Hygiene in addition to illness prevention are the primary number in addition to assignment in addition to withdraw to ensure construct clean inwards eating, living, drinking. Cages in addition to gardens withdraw maintain ever dry, construct clean in addition to costless of stagnant H2O inwards the garden.
Strict compliance alongside vaccination schedule depending on locality. In addition, it’s withdraw to role some antibiotics to foreclose bacterial diseases, especially for pasture chicken, yous withdraw to foreclose the coccidiosis illness when raising on the foundation or inwards the garden.
The causes of the diseases
- Young cattle, cattle weakened, susceptible varieties.
- Habitat:
+ animals are susceptible to illness when nutrient is non balanced nutrition
+ The H2O should endure construct clean
+ Air, temperature ....
Resistance mightiness
- Each beast had a mechanical barrier to protect itsefl
- Resistance yesteryear humans yesteryear injecting the prophylaxis vaccine (active resistance).
The hygiene in addition to illness prevention measures:
The hygiene in addition to illness prevention:
- Food is guaranteed
- Clean H2O
- Breeding animals withdraw maintain the high mightiness to resist alongside disease.
- Clean cages
- Must endure cleared about the cages
- Good implementation procedure of veterinarian inwards hygiene in addition to illness prevention
Vaccine prophylaxis:
Some notices:
- Only when the poultry is inwards a salubrious state
- Shake good the vaccine earlier in addition to during role
- The opened vaccine uses alone during the day, if not, they must endure cancel.
- Use vitamine to ameliorate for the poultry
Medicine prophylaxis:
- For gastrointestinal diseases: Oxyteracilin, chloramphenicol...
- For respiratory diseases: Tylosin, Tiamulin,...
- Do non role ane form of antibiotic inwards a row of the handling processes. 3-4 days are plenty for each class of illness prevention