name "broiler" we hear very often and more often we see him in the shops in the meat department.But what we do know about this category of poultry and about what it is?Let's deal together.
Chicken Broiler - is primarily poultry, which is derived by breeding a hybrid.Special features that their cultivation is not conducted 2.5 months longer, because the nutritional quality of the product after this age begin to lose.What can I use broiler meat?It is great for roasting, frying and cooking broth, familiar to our diet and easily digested.The weight of slaughtered poultry must not be more than two and a half kilograms.The ideal body weight is considered to be a chicken, component of 1.4-1.6 kg.
Interesting fact: cross-breeding hens should be interbreed, and held it between individuals specially selected lines of meat or meat and egg direction.The result is a "cross" or hybrid - Broilers.Breeds of chickens used for such crosses are different.For example, it may be May Day, New Hampshire, Plymouth Rock, anniversary, Rhode Island, Kuczynski.The basis of the fact that in this case breeding descendants have well expressed meat quality is such a thing as heterosis.This, incidentally, is widely used not only in poultry but also in other areas of productive agriculture.
how to grow a chicken-broiler
room must be suitable for the humidity and thermal regime.For young chicks maintained at 26-33 ° C to 26-28 ° C weekly kids are optimal, then the figure falls to 18 ° C.It is necessary to organize good ventilation, avoid drafts that are harmful to young animals of any poultry.
Lighting coop must be at least 17 hours a day, but too bright light is bad.For chickens optional paddock.The rules of their content: up to 18 heads per square meter, provided excellent ventilation.A deep bed of dry sawdust periodically change.Broilers fed the same way as ordinary chickens.Cereals account for two-thirds of the diet, and should be a green mass, vegetables (carrots, potatoes), cakes, mineral feed (chalk or bone meal), vitamins, especially A, E & D, dairy products (skim, whey).
Need gravel - a chicken-broiler uses it from a very early age, it is necessary for normal gastric digestion.The water should be given clear and not cold.Dishes for watering thoroughly washed daily.Mode of feeding plenty eight times a day during the first week, the second - seven times, in the third - six.This category chickens for cellular maintenance, while increasing the growth and decrease kormozatraty.Two weeks prior to slaughter poultry from the need to transplant the cells in the breasts that are not indented from the grid.
One chicken broiler ten weeks cultivation adds 2.1 to 2.6 kg, the minimum flow rate of feed at the same time in the first week was 0.8 kg per kg of growth, maximum - for the tenth week - 2,3 kg.
