Raising Chickens

Raising a small number of chickens is enough to provide the family with eggs fresh. It is easy to add these chickens to any farm or a house with a yard wide. And in order to produce fresh eggs for the family most days of the year may be artificial lighting is necessary to achieve in order to prolong the short days of winter.

Is not a chicken hatchery and machine must be a good care of it ", otherwise they will not lay eggs. The chicken oriented normal to the earth in search of grub," of grains and insects to eat. Therefore, the best way to raise chickens are left free "out of the house as much as possible during the day and chicken legs are designed so that it can stand on a small piece of wood. So it must be made with wood thickness specific to perch at night."

• Shelter:

A stable or an old barn with lighting and ventilation, adequate shelter, "appropriate" for poultry. It may be necessary "to provide windows, glass to increase the brightness or window with mesh wire to increase ventilation. If you want to build a coop of chickens, the place of its dimensions (2 × 1 × 2) m will be beta" comfortable "I'm not chickens. Can be up number so (12) chickens If you arrived serf square outside.

• Brush:

Should cover the entire floor serf thatched to a depth of (10) cm and consists of bedding straw or dry grass or brush dry or coarse sawdust and dry. And must be removed down the blue and should change the entire bedding every three months

• nest boxes:

Should be building a wooden box to box with a side entrance on the high ground and away "from air currents. And that each nest sprayed disinfectant powder (powder insects) once a week" and then brushing straw. Place the legs "of wood at a depth of a few centimeters along the Fund Introduction to prevent material from falling into the nest. Place the fund" for every three chickens.

• Roosts:

Degrades the chicken on the roosts at night, "and should be made so is the chicken comfortable, but it affects the production of eggs, you must be thick 5 cm square-shaped ends Supreme rounded and ends lower circular a few. Make space enough to land all the birds from a distance (23-25 ) for each bird. Make sure that the roosts are stable, secure, and at the same height so as not to sway.

• Nutrition:

Groats: All chickens reared at home needs to be crushed stones to help grind food and to the broken shell to assist in the formation of eggs. Proven fund "contains these things to the coop by chickens.

• Water:

Make sure there is clean water continuously, since each bird needs to be about a third of a liter of water a day "and a shortage of water to produce intermittently and have eggs smaller. And to avoid" the dirty water can be placed outside the home of the chicken, but at a height allow him chicken from drinking comfortably.

• Food:

Must provide a diet primarily composed of a combination pills once a day ", with the addition of grass and green plants (Other securities and the market for cabbage, kale, broccoli, ... etc.) can be provided dry bread or crumbs of cake if dried in the oven. At the beginning of season Ovulation should be made a meal of mash (a mixture of wheat + bran + hot water) in addition to a mixture of grain.

Combination pills:

Six servings of wheat and three servings of oats and corn Mekdaran cooked.

Warning: You must be all the grain in the case of maturity.

Mash:

The basis of eight servings of grains with three amounts of oats and three amounts of bran and three amounts of maize meal with the amount of alfalfa meal and the amount of bone / fish meal or soy (to provide protein) and sprinkling salt. And you can add vegetables and boiled carrots section and peel boiled potatoes. Make wet mix "and not easy to turn a liquid" slippery. "

• The creation of broiler meat:

Choose a chicken incubator (incubator chicken signs that they are sitting in the nest and Tkerk anger at any sign of discomfort.) Wherever it is even more vocal "whenever a foster better to sit the period required (3 weeks _ months).

In order to successfully holding the chicken egg must be filled (fat), but not very heavy, "so as not to break the eggs.

• Fund of the nest:

Must be comfortable "and not to move, and can convert a wooden box or cage easily to the Fund's Nest appropriate and should be put in a corner of an isolated away" from the sun and the inconvenience and that the ground above the ground and area (40 × 40) cm. Cover the ground with soil damp, cave plate from the middle of her stomach and thatched and fruitless powder (powder insects)

Make sure that the nest is well protected from "predatory animals (cats, dogs).

• Incubation period:

Put the chicken a number "of eggs ranges between (12-15) eggs. And eat chicken-and-one meal and must be fed a short distance from the nest with providing clean water fresh. You might need to lift the chicken from the nest and bring it closer to the food on a regular basis every day," . And should not be away from the nest for more than (20) minutes. Cover chicken eggs when they are far "about him. Then providing them with pools dirt mixed with ash.

• Chicks:

Period in which hatch eggs which must be taken into chicks hatched recently, "and to be put in a box lined with straw warm. Your heating straw lamp or tank heating a private or a bottle of hot water is covered with a cloth. When the eggs hatch the entire returned chicks to the nest and by raising chicken .