Growing poultry is a good help. And if you have the opportunity to do this profitable business, do not hesitate for a long time. Breeding chickens will provide the family with dietary meat and an equally valuable product - eggs.
Poultry grows rapidly and, importantly, reproduces easily. Broilers are suitable for getting diet meat . Chickens obtained from crossing meat and egg and meat breeds are quite productive. They gain weight very quickly.
Owners of household plots can engage in poultry farming not only for their own family, but also for sale. Homemade chicken and eggs are always in demand. Therefore, this small business will be profitable. In addition to the fact that households will always be provided with good food.
But in order to engage in poultry farming, it is not necessary to have a private home ownership. In a small suburban area, the chicken broiler feels great and is gaining weight.
Cultivation begins with the acquisition of day old chickens. They are purchased at the market or at the poultry farm. Broilers are chickens that need special care. In order to avoid infection, young animals are grown separately from another bird in specially designated premises.
The first week of life is a crucial period. To prevent the death of a bird, special attention should be paid to it. First of all, it is necessary to provide temperature and light conditions. If chickens are raised in the summer, this task will be easier to cope with. It is recommended to provide round-the-clock lighting and heating. During this period, the air temperature is maintained within 33 degrees Celsius.
Also, to obtain a good gain, a special diet should be provided . Broilers are chickens for which feed should be available at any time of the day. The chickens ’diet includes: millet, crushed corn, as well as semolina and finely chopped hard-boiled eggs. Be sure to have vitamins in the diet of young animals. To do this, you can use the greens of young nettles, dandelion and finely chopped green onions.
The room, which contains broilers (chickens), should have a sufficient number of drinking bowls, which are arranged in such a way that the unintentional chickens are not wet. As a disease prevention, once a week the drinkers are filled with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. At the age of 1.5 months, chickens are gradually transferred to a common diet for an adult bird.
Broilers are chickens that should not be limited in nutrition. For good development and weight gain, special compound feeds are prepared from grain waste with the addition of small shells and crushed chalk, oilcake, as well as whey, cottage cheese, fish and meat waste and grass. Feed is made on its own or purchased ready-made. In the presence of walking areas, the grown chickens are released for a walk, since sunlight is needed for the normal development of young animals.
With normal care and balanced special feeding, a 1.5 month old chicken will weigh 800 grams.
Broiler chickens are not important laying hens. This is a hybrid of poultry for meat purposes. They begin to lay eggs at the age of 7 months. Therefore, they are used only for dietary meat.
For breeding broilers at home, you must have chickens of meat and egg breed and a cockerel of meat breed. Crossbreeding will produce hybrid testicles suitable for young broilers. They are laid under a hen or in a home incubator. But the easiest way to purchase hatching eggs or day-old chicks in specialized farms involved in breeding and rearing poultry.