Cours can be bred to produce eggs or meat.In the first case preferably comprise chickens in the second - males.Therefore, buying chickens at a poultry farm or market, it is desirable to be able to determine their gender.And the hosts, young outputting in incubators, will certainly be interesting to know immediately how many chickens and how many males will roam the yard shortly.Further, all the details will deal with how to determine the sex of chicken right.
way to Grandma
The surest way to determine the sex of a chicken - inspection of its wings.At the age of two to three days in males are usually a bit lighter than the females.Later, pen color is leveled.
There is another fairly reliable method by which the floor of chickens was determined by our ancestors.To find out, is chicken or rooster, you need to pull a little baby wing, straighten it and consider carefully.Pay attention should be on the first few feathers.Chickens fledge before males.This will help determine the sex.6-7 primary feathers at the "girls" are longer and thicker than the paired them opaque.Visually, it looks like the alternation of short and long feathers.Quite a different picture is observed in males.In the retracted flap will be seen exactly the same height primaries and coverts feathers arranged even row.
easiest way
Most often the owners of private households determine the sex of chickens as follows:
- nestling gently take for tabs;
- turn it upside down.
If the chicken while retracts his shoulders - so it's a chicken, pull it, and if it starts to twirl - Cockerel.
This method is very simple, but unfortunately not very reliable.The head, for example, depending on the mood, can draw and cock and hen.Learn how to brood "girls" and how "the boys", so can only be approximate.
industrial process
Next, let's look at how to determine the sex of a chicken so-called Japanese way.In Japan they are usually large industrial enterprises.The method is rather complicated, but it is very accurate.Identify this way the floor may be chickens aged from 6-7 hours, and no later than 18 hours. Beef breeds and at 15 hours. - From the egg.The procedure in this case is thus:
- Chick care taken in the left hand and click on the tummy, removing feces.
- Then hold the legs, the chicken is turned upside down.
- right thumb gently stretch the cloaca, gently twisting it from the abdomen.
cock inside will have noticed a small bump sex.In females of such education is not.
terms mentioned above, when using this method, be sure to comply.Chicks who were born less than 6 hours ago, is still weak and loose, so when viewed from the cloaca can harm them.After 15-18 hours in chickens appear characteristic folds and sex determination in this way is impossible.
large chicks
question of how to determine the sex of a chicken in the event that he had turned over two or three weeks, a special difficulty is different.Do chicks are older it can be done simply by examining the feathers.In females fluff disappears a little earlier than the males.It is also not too hard to find out the sex and the size of the chick."Girls," as a rule, less than 'boys'.You can also look at the scallops chickens.In males, they are usually a bit larger and brighter.
How to determine the sex of the chicken in the egg
Experienced owners of gardens celebrate the fact that the breeding of chickens in incubators often happens that the output of the males is 80-90%.Of course, the owners, distributing chickens for eggs, such a situation is hardly satisfied.Therefore, it is important to learn how to determine the sex of chickens even before birth - to fill the incubator.It would seem that the task is impossible.But, apparently, it is not so.
Some farmers abroad believe that determine the sex of the chick in the egg is not so difficult.How a process which will be discussed below, is accurate, we do not undertake to judge.However, perhaps someone of his description will be interesting.So, to determine the sex of a chicken on the shell, you need to:
- Take the egg in the right hand pointed end up.
- slide your finger left on the top of it.
If felt the sharp end of the small bumps and the ring - it means, most likely, from the egg to hatch cock.If the top is absolutely smooth - chicken.
Sexing using candling
This method also raises some doubts.However, try to use it will not hurt anyway.It consists in candling candling eggs in the direction of the pointed end to the stupid.This becomes noticeable airbag.If it is located exactly in the center from the sharp end - so the egg will hatch cock.If the camera is slightly biased towards - chicken.
Hybrids
When breeding hens hybrids answer to the question of how to distinguish between the chickens on the floor, often in general is very simple.Cross is currently displayed a huge amount.At the same time, many hybrids of chickens of different sexes are unequal in color down.Sometimes the females or males, or the wings on the back is the "identity" spots or stripes.
hatching in an incubator: preparation
To egg was the most suitable for incubation, hens should be well and properly fed.Layers necessarily need to give meat waste, mash and add fish oil, chalk, flour, medication to increase egg production.Very nice yogurt every day to feed the birds.In this case, the chickens come out of the incubator Zdorovenki and strong.
Lay can only be clean, smooth and devoid of cracks and cuts, as well as the build-up and cavities eggs.They also should not be too large (dvuhzheltkovymi) or very small.
incubation period
order for such an operation as an independent removal of chickens, was a success, you should observe certain rules at all stages.The incubation period of only three:
- initial (from the 1st to the 11th day);
- intermediate (from the 12th to the 18th day);
- final (from 19 to 20-21 minutes per day).
In the initial period of the eggs must be warmed best.Not allowed to decrease the temperature in the incubator below 39 degrees.Also for the successful development of embryos requires high humidity.Short-term cooling is started at the end of the 6th day.Do this for 5 minutes.once a day.
In the interim period, the temperature was lowered to 38.5 degrees.Eggs cooled for 10-15 minutes per day.In the final period the temperature in the incubator must be equal to 38 degrees.At this time, it is important to increase the humidity.To do this, you can put into the incubator with water trough.Cooling and turns in the active period is terminated.
hatching chicks
Get out of the eggs for 20-21 minutes a day.Chicken hens hatch usually stronger and more viable than broilers.However, to comply with certain rules of care should be equally careful to breed any productive direction.
The incubator babies left to complete drying of the pen.Then, they need to be transplanted into a box, providing heating to not less than 32-35 degrees.The incubator should be cleaned from the shell, wash and disinfect.Two days later, the chicks are transplanted cells, reducing the temperature to 28-29 degrees.Chickens from the incubator, in the event that all the rules have been complied with, go Zdorovenki and viable.
How to buy day-old birds
independent conclusions chickens - it is quite troublesome.Therefore, private traders often prefer to just buy them in the market or the poultry farm.One day old chickens, the price of which is very low (about 40-50 rubles. Per unit, depending on the breed), a special endurance is different.In particular broilers.Lunge, compared with five-day, in which case it is usually sufficient large.To reduce losses, the purchase should pay attention to the following factors:
- Chickens need to be active and alive.
- umbilical cord at the day-old birds is fully tightened.Acquire kids with secretions from it is not necessary.
- Chickens should be well equipped.
Subject to the above recommendations can be purchased really is healthy and viable day old chickens.The price for them is primarily determined by the breed, and it would be a shame if expensive or rare broiler chicks will die in a few days.Therefore, the choice should be approached seriously.And, of course, is to determine the sex of each of the acquired chicken.The easiest way to use the first method described in the article.That is to inspect the wings kids.
feed for broiler chickens and laying hens
chick diet is very different from the adult menu hens.The first few days give kids traditionally chopped boiled egg, cottage cheese and wheat.Recently, however, many owners of gardens of this method refuse, considering the product for the first two chicks unnatural food.Perhaps, boiled eggs and cheese is replaced by a special forage "Start" for the newly hatched chicks.With its purchase should pay attention to the productivity of a breed he is.There is a special feed for broilers and laying hens.Give the composition of the chicks to two weeks of age.
