In the poultry industry, a special diets, which are tested by time and practice.In domestic poultry is not always possible to provide the chickens feed on industrial standards, but has its own set of feed, which will provide the necessary productivity and quality food birds.
There are such types of feed for laying hens:
- fodder;
- cereals;
- greens, vegetables and table waste.
feed for poultry are produced in specialized factories.They include milled (crushed) grain, vegetable oil, premix (vitamin supplements), salt and meat and bone meal.For chickens in the animal feed, and often include crushed coquina.Available feed for laying hens can be in the form of regrind, as well as in the form of granules.Practice proves that the pellets are best kept as between the individual granules freely circulating air.The crushed feeds air circulation is difficult, so the shelf life is not high, they often absorb moisture from the air, self-heating and turn sour.
Fodder for birds fed in dry form or in the form meshanok.There are different preferences.Some believe that the steamed food is better absorbed by chickens, others believe that in the wild birds are not able to eat wet food, so breeders prefer to use only dry food.Who is right?Birdwatching showed that wet food faster and better absorbed, and feeding only dry food leads to the fact that the body of the food eaten displays without assimilation.Consequently, domestic poultry fodder is better to give a preliminary meshanok steaming.When this pulp feed composed partially decomposed into short molecules, which also contributes to better digestion of feed.
At home cultivation of feed chickens share is not more than 50% of their diet, since some of them can be replaced by other means at the farm feed.Feed for laying hens supplemented conventional grain and wheat with great pleasure that a bird pecks.But let's just one grain, then no dodavat number of necessary components, which initially is not in it.Sunflower Seeds by adding the necessary vegetable oil, barley - fiber, which is essential for digestion.Corn peck only after the partial split, otherwise it is almost absorbed by chickens.
How much grain should be?Researchers have shown that feed for laying hens must have at least 0.12 fodder units daily.For one feed unit adopted by the energy value of 1 kg of oats.But almost no oats chickens peck, it is practically not absorbed by them.Therefore, recalculation is done for wheat, which has a higher energy value.It is believed that the chickens should be given 115-117 g of food, based on the wheat.
Feed for laying hens in the household are complemented and greens.In summer, free-range birds to peck constantly all kinds of herbs available to them.In winter, they are happy to eat cabbage, brooms from nettles harvested in the summer, cut into slices of pumpkin and other similar lures.
useful additive in the winter will be tenderized mash potatoes, but he should not exceed 30% of the total composition.It is important even in the winter to give mash cooled, otherwise the birds can burn the esophagus, leading to gastrointestinal disease and mortality.For the prevention of gastric diseases in the winter need to give the hens crushed hot pepper.It contains many different vitamins, but also contributes to the destruction in the stomach of poultry any infection.In the feed for laying hens and the need to include river sand, which helps rough mechanical mastication of food, including grain, increasing feed efficiency.
