planned and successfully start a business on the domestic production of chicken eggs, you are puzzled many questions.First of all, beginning farmers interested in how to feed the hens, how to organize for their room and keep it mode.All this is not so difficult, not very expensive, and because there is a constant demand for the products, of course, profitable.We'll talk more about feeding poultry.
How to feed hens
Diet goose that lays the eggs must be complete and include a vegetable (such as whole-grain feed and flour mixture), animal feed and minerals.How to feed hens, if you have the bird breeding stock from which to incubate the eggs get young?The food for them should be a high content of easily digestible protein and vitamins (B, E).The source of vitamin E becomes sprouted grains, B vitamins - the yeast.This category also in poultry diets need fish oil.
What used to feed the hens laying eggs
For this purpose grains, beans, cake and meal in the form of concentrates.We also need the fish, meat and bone meal, milk, cottage cheese, green grass, carrots, beets, potatoes, bran, softwood flour, limestone, chalk, feed phosphates, salt.Basically poultry feed with full-fodder, in addition, relevant food waste, vegetable tops.Mineral feed must always be within the house.Before the start of egg-laying (for two to three weeks) in the body of the bird, you must create a reserve of calcium.Egg laying chickens phase, the first stage is characterized by intensive production of eggs, it lasts from 21-22 weeks to 48 weeks, peaking at 28-29.During this period, you need to feed a bird high-calorie, low-volume feed.After 48 weeks decreases productivity and nutrient requirements.
in how to feed hens, is very important mode of feeding.Dry feed is set twice a day.When using moist mash, the frequency of meals is increased to three or four.It should be that the food was not in the feeders 30-40 minutes longer.
That's about the layout of what the feed of laying hens (per head per day):
Grain - 50 g, a mixture of flour - 50 g flour hay - to 10 g, succulent food (carrots, beets)- up to 50 g dry feed protein - 10-15 g, crushed shell - 5 g, bone meal - 2 g, salt - 0.5 The total number of feed mixture per chicken per day - 120 g So, the annual rate will be about 44 kg.The amount of the daily feed, when added to the diet of succulent and green fodder - 170 g
Water birds per head should be approximately 250-300 g per day at a room temperature of 10 to 18 ° C.
few words in conclusion
laying hens at home, of course, differs from the industry: no flat rows of cells, automatic drinkers, food distributors, harvesting units.But domestic production of virtually every farmer knows chicken "in your face", its characteristics and problems.It can be most effectively organized to deal with this in mind.In case of illness poultry farmer is easy to see among the small livestock and respond quickly.
