What to feed the chickens correctly

If you first decided to start growing poultry, particularly chickens, you should know about some of the subtleties of this process. Perhaps the very first and main question that will arise before you, is "how to feed the chickens and how to do it right."

How and what to feed chicks at an early age

From the first day of life, birds should be provided with all the nutrients necessary for their development and growth.

As part of the daily diet, mineral, grains and animal substances are mandatory, and vitamins are also required.

From the first days, the best food for chickens is cottage cheese or steep eggs that are mixed with finely divided grains (wheat, barley, oats, corn).

On the fourth day, add finely chopped clover, alfalfa and vetch.

From the tenth day in the diet, medium crushed wheat grains, peeled oats and corn are introduced.

Mineral fodders must necessarily be included in all barnacles, and they should be given a lot. Chickens need chalk, bone meal, small shell and gravel, and also fine salt (in the mash).

The first ten days of food are given to chickens seven times a day with small intervals between feedings (no more than 2 hours). From the tenth day - five times, with three-hour intervals. After two months they transfer to four meals a day. Give food always at the same time.

Very valuable products when growing chickens are red carrots and potatoes.

At the initial stages of life, the nutrition of cooked potatoes will save up to thirty percent of the food from grain and flour. Chicken aged up to 20 days a day requires 5 grams of boiled potatoes, monthly - 10 grams, three-month - 100 grams.

In addition to saving grain mixtures, feeding with boiled potatoes enables young growth to develop well, and from a chicken at the age of five months, you can get the first eggs laid.

When feeding potatoes, the rituals of the chickens do not happen. Do not drink water as a drink from cooking potatoes. Adults should be taught to eat washed raw potatoes.

Than to feed chickens on integrated poultry farms

In large poultry farms from the very first day, the chickens are fed in turn with a flour mix and crushed grain. The mixture consists of two or three kinds of cereals, bran from wheat, one or two percent chalk and ground shell. Fresh yogurt and cottage cheese are used as animal feed.

At the week of age, the animal formula includes animal dry food (meat and bone meal, fish meal, casein or dry cottage cheese). At the age of four to five days, one per milligram of fish oil per day is given.

Than to feed chicken meat breeds

Feeding and growing of meat breeds of chickens is very different from a bird intended for breeding purposes. Therefore, it is worth dwelling on the issue of how to grow chicken meat breeds. From the diurnal age, a special regime of restricted movement is established for them so that the nutrients coming from the food are expended to increase the live weight of the bird.

Scientific institutes for their feeding have developed special diets, in which the content of assimilated protein is increased to almost twenty percent, and the amount of fiber is reduced to five percent. The norm of mineral substances is also reduced due to the fact that their increased amount leads to increased development of bones and deterioration of the quality of poultry meat. Diets for young chicken should contain enough microelements, vitamins and antibiotics, which contributes to their intensive growth and rapid increase in weight gain.

Vitamins for chickens (fish oil and vitamins A, B, B 2, D) and antibiotics, for example, the drug "Biomycin", are added to a moistened mash. From the first days of life and up to three weeks of age, young children are drunk from glass drums, and then from flutes made of metal and connected to a water pipe.

At the age of three months, the meat chicken weighs 1.4 kilograms. For each kilogram of gain is used 3.4 fodder units.