When is the best time to pick up girls?

If it is a henhouse, you can start raising it at any time. If it is free-range, March and April are the best.

Feeding technique

First, choose improved varieties. Excellent breeds are the basis for raising high-quality broilers. We should choose local famous breeds with thin skin, plump muscles, delicious meat, strong stress resistance and small and medium-sized colorful feathers, such as Sanhuang Chicken or Twist Green Foot Chicken, such as Gongting Yellow Chicken, Henan Gushi Chicken, Guangxi Cenxi Sanhuang Chicken, Zhejiang Xianju Chicken, etc., or choose excellent broiler breeds suitable for local feeding according to local feeding habits and market consumption demand.

Second, pay attention to grazing. Grazing is one of the important measures to improve the meat quality of broilers. The technical requirements for brooding of high-quality free-range chickens are the same as those for fast-growing broilers. After brooding in the brooding room for about 30 days, it will be transferred to the greenhouse for breeding. Generally, grazing begins in 30 days in summer, 45 days in spring and autumn and 50-60 days in winter. It is best to choose bamboo gardens, orchards, tea gardens, mulberry gardens and other places with high and dry terrain, sheltered from the wind and sunny, quiet environment, convenient drinking, no pollution and no animal harm. Chickens can not only eat pests and weeds in the above four gardens, but also accumulate them for the four gardens.

Fertilize. A sandpit can be set up in the grazing land for chickens to bathe in the sand. It is also necessary to build a straw shed or plastic shed to shelter from rain, sun and cold. Broilers come out early and come back late, and the grazing density is 50 ~ 70/mu, and the size of each group is about 500. In order to prevent chickens from getting lost or hurting nearby crops, fences can be set up in the pasture until they are sold. Strengthening grazing can improve the compactness of chickens and promote their physique and feathers to be tight and bright; You can also eat grass, grass seeds, dead leaves, flies and so on. Save feed and improve meat quality. Conditional can put a batch of chickens in different places, which is not only conducive to disease prevention, but also conducive to chicken foraging.

Third, feed the feed skillfully. Feed is an important factor affecting meat quality. High-quality native chickens should be fed with digestible and nutritious full-price feed for chicks during the brooding period. Because of its slow growth rate, the crude protein content in the feed is 2% lower than that in the complete feed for fast-growing broilers, so it is necessary to eat more meals in small quantities to promote the growth and development of chicks. In order to improve the meat quality and reduce the feed cost, more green feed, agricultural and sideline products and coarse grains should be fed during breeding and grazing, and the compound feed should be supplemented after returning home at night. 0 ~ 2 weeks before 65438+ slaughter, if the chicken is thin, the feeding amount of compound feed can be increased and grazing can be restricted for moderate fattening. Animal feed such as silkworm chrysalis, fish meal and meat meal should not be added to the compound feed in the middle and late stage. Rapeseed meal, cottonseed meal and other feeds that have adverse effects on meat quality and meat color should be limited. Artificial synthetic pigments, chemically synthesized non-nutritional additives and drugs shall not be added. Natural substances such as orange peel powder, pine needle powder, garlic, ginger, fennel, cinnamon and tea powder should be properly added to change the meat color, improve the meat quality and increase the umami flavor.