Would you like to ask about the feeding requirements of vegetable chickens? What food does it usually eat?

Feeding method

The management of vegetable chickens is basically the same as other chickens, and the main technical measures are as follows:

1, brooding: The success or failure of brooding mainly depends on the survival rate, focusing on the following points:

① Temperature: The temperature of chicks should be controlled within 34-35℃ in the first week after hatching, and it should be reduced by 2℃ every week from the second week until the temperature drops in the sixth week. The method of heat preservation depends on the number of chickens. Chickens can be made of cardboard boxes and light bulbs, that is, put the chicks in boxes, hang a light bulb of about 60W, and put a water bottle and a trough at the same time. Chickens can be heated in brooding rooms and indoor coal stoves, but the oil fume should be discharged outdoors with iron pipes. In order to ensure the accuracy of temperature, in addition to observing the state of chicks, we should also hang a thermometer and often remove feces.

② Lighting: 24-hour lighting is required in the first week of brooding to ensure that chicks can eat and drink day and night to promote growth and development, and then it will be reduced by 2 hours every week until the lights are turned off at night. Lighting and heat preservation can be combined into one. When the temperature is not enough, add boiling water, wrap it in cloth and heat it in a box.

③ Feeding density: 1- 14 days old, 50-60 heads /m2, 15-2 1 day old, 35-40 heads /m2, 2 1-44 days old, 25 heads /m2. The de-warmed chicks can be caged, leveled or stocked, as long as the density does not exceed the above standards.

(4) Feeding and drinking water: chicks can be fed with water 24 hours after hatching, and the brooding material is put into a bucket for them to eat freely, and at the same time, clear water is put into a water cup. Drink cold boiled water 20 days before brooding, and then drink well water or tap water. Because chicks eat less and have vigorous metabolism, 8-10% glucose and water-soluble multivitamins must be added to drinking water before10 to prevent malnutrition.

2. Feed after temperature removal:

When chicks are raised for 40 days, they can stop heating, but the temperature should not change too much. In rainy and windy weather in winter, the room temperature should still be above 15℃, and the light is natural light. The feeding method is as follows:

(1) Cage culture: Transfer the thawed chickens to cage culture, make full use of the space, avoid the contact of chickens with feces, reduce diseases, facilitate catching chickens, and reduce the labor intensity of breeders; The disadvantage is that the stress response of chickens raised for a long time is greater, and the chest and legs of chickens are prone to pathological changes.

② Plate support: Plate support can be divided into online plate support and ground plate support. Online flat farming is the same as cage farming, but the activity of chickens has increased, and it is not easy to get sick, of course, the cost is higher; Flat cultivation is to put wheat straw, chaff, rapeseed shell and other padding on the cement floor, and raise chickens on it. Its advantages are cost saving, and chicken's chest and legs are not prone to pathological changes. Due to the large activity of local chickens, the padding does not need to be replaced. The disadvantage is that chickens excrete feces directly on the padding, which is easy to induce some diseases.

(3) Stocking: put the chickens outdoors in the morning, let them receive sunlight and contact with the soil, and find some mineral feed and insects at the same time, and drive them back to the house at noon and night to supplement the feed. The advantage of this feeding method is to let the chicken return to nature, and the meat quality of the chicken is good and the price is high. The disadvantage is that the space needed is large, so the breeding scale is limited. This method is suitable for small-scale free farming of farmers.

Third, feed selection and feeding:

Vegetable chicken is different from broiler, because its growth speed is slower than that of broiler, so the feed standard and feeding stage are different from broiler.

① 1-22 days old: At this stage, the use of feed is the same as that of broilers, and young broilers can be fed. The nutritional standard of feed is: metabolic energy 2900 kcal/kg, crude protein 2 1%.

②22-44 days old: medium-sized broilers were fed, and the nutritional components of the feed were: metabolic energy 2950 kcal/kg, crude protein 18%.

(3) Feed broilers after 44 days of age and before marketing. The nutritional components of the feed are: metabolic energy of 3000 kcal/kg, crude protein 16- 17%, and crude protein can be reduced to 15% for some high-quality chickens with slow growth and long feeding time.

No matter what kind of feed is used, amino acids should be balanced and the price should be moderate. Local chickens can't be fed with feed with high crude protein content for a long time, otherwise it will cause urate deposition and cause dead chickens. All kinds of feed can be eaten freely without restriction.