How to raise chickens in cages at home?

Family chickens bear the supply of domestic broilers and eggs. Since ancient times, the breeding of thousands of households has met the market demand for chickens and eggs. Family chicken raising is carried out by using idle houses, yards and forests, and the breeding methods are flexible and diverse. Rural families have this habit. In spring, hens with nests are used to hatch, cocks grow up and sell, and hens stay to lay eggs. The oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home are basically exchanged for hen eggs. How to raise chickens at home?

First, what kind of chicken is good for the family? It used to be mainly Laihang chicken with high eggs. Laihang chicken is a light laying hen, flying very high, causing serious damage to crops and crops in the vegetable garden. Now consumers need local chicken. Therefore, domestic chickens can choose Laihang chickens with high egg production, with an annual egg production of about 220-250. And Xianju chicken, native chicken. The adult cock of Xianju chicken weighs about 1.5kg, and the hen weighs about 1kg. The annual egg production is about 188-2 1 1.

Second, the henhouse, family chickens must first have a henhouse. One is to use their existing idle houses as henhouses, and the other is to use Kugaji in their own dams to build simple henhouses. There must be habitats in the henhouses so that chickens can live. Some people say that livestock and poultry are not allowed to be raised in the village now, and those who are not allowed to be raised are free-range.

Third, the source of chicks, one is to hatch with old hens with nests, which are brought up by hens, which is very convenient. When the chicks are big, the old hens can fatten up and sell them. The other is to buy chicks from hatcheries and raise them as required.

Fourth, chicken disease prevention, from the first day after hatching, Marek's vaccine will be vaccinated, and this incubation has been vaccinated. At the same time, do a good job in vaccination of Newcastle disease, chicken bronchitis, avian influenza, poultry cholera, bursa of fabricius, chickenpox and other vaccines. We should also pay attention to timely prevention and treatment of other diseases, do a good job in cleaning and disinfection of farms, and ensure the healthy growth of free-range chickens.

Five, feeding management, free activities in the courtyard dam during the day and rest in the henhouse at night, can be cultivated in strict accordance with the traditional farming methods in rural areas, as long as feed additives, drugs and hormones are not used, mixed feed can be prepared by itself, using conventional feed raw materials such as corn, sorghum, soybean meal, rice bran and wheat bran. Feeding more green feed, especially wild feed growing in the corner of the field, can prevent chicken diseases and promote the growth of chickens.

Six, summer heatstroke, summer heat, chicken feed intake gradually decreased, drinking water gradually increased. When the temperature rises to 25℃, the amount of eggs laid will decrease, and when it exceeds 30℃, the amount of eggs laid will obviously decrease or even stop. The feed intake, laying rate, egg weight and eggshell quality of laying hens decreased. Laying hens can take advantage of the cool weather in the morning to eat drinking water, so turn on the light at 3-4 am and feed them with feed and drinking water, so that chickens can eat half of the total intake in one day. Scattered feeding can induce laying hens to collect more food during the day.

Seven, short sunshine in autumn and winter, in order to ensure that hens lay eggs, artificial lighting must be supplemented. Generally, the lights in the henhouse are turned on around 6 am and turned off at 8-9 pm to promote egg laying.

Eight, heat preservation is the key to improve the hen's egg production in winter, and temperature can affect the feed intake. Use plastic film to build a temporary shed to raise free-range chickens, and the temperature in the shed should be controlled at 15-25℃. The henhouse can use fire to raise the shed temperature, but it should keep enough air intake.