Breeding of chicken: healthy food and income

Those who have a dacha or a household plot, can always breed on it some living creature. If, of course, there is time and desire. For example, chicken breeding is practiced in any rural area. Representatives of this species of birds can be seen in almost all the yards in the village. Many urban residents immediately have an association with an unpleasant odor and a courtyard dotted with chicken droppings. Well, there is some truth in this. But the breeding of laying hens brings to the peasants both healthy food and income from the sale of eggs. And that the yard was clean and tidy, you just need to make an enclosure and make timely cleaning. Then there will be no smell or dirt.

Although chickens are unpretentious birds, some technology in their cultivation still exists. First of all, you need to decide which product you want to receive - eggs, meat, or both. If there is a possibility and desire, then you will approach the breeding of chickens as a business for yourself and your family. Determined with the breed, you need to prepare a house. This should be a room commensurate with the number of heads. At 1 square meter is placed 4-5 individuals. Therefore, if you plan to have 20 hens, then it will be enough to have 5 sq. M. M. A little more will need aviary, birds need to walk somewhere. The coop should be well insulated, at a temperature below 17 ° C they start to fall worse. It is necessary to install a feeder and a water tank in the birdhouse or in the enclosure. It will also be necessary to install cages or nests in order for the chickens to sweep there. The room should be not only warm, but also ventilated.

In order to breed chicken for yourself or for sale was successful, you need to buy food, as well as know about all possible diseases. The main diet of layers is mixed feed. Before buying them, you need to familiarize yourself with the composition. In some mixed fodders add various vitamins, as well as chalk, calcium. If there are no such additives, you need to buy them separately and add them yourself. In the feeding trough you need to pour the food a little, so that after the meal the trough remains empty. On average, one meal per day consumes 180-200 grams of food. Water in the water bowl should always be clean, even if it has to be changed several times a day.

The stage of buying the livestock came. Breeding chicken to produce eggs as the main product involves the purchase of appropriate breeds. The most common breed is Leygorn. They are unpretentious, adapt well to various conditions of detention. Under normal conditions of care per year, they can bring in about 300 eggs, begin to be carried on the 52nd week of life. No less interesting is the breed figured out by French breeders. They adapt well to different climatic conditions and ways of keeping. Beginning to begin with the 21st week of life, adults give up to 320 eggs per year. In the process of buying, the question arises: "Who better to buy - chickens or 5-month-old chickens?" A positive aspect in buying babies is that you will clearly know what you fed them and in what conditions they were kept. But at the same time you do not determine which breed you acquired until they grow up, and what kind of sex you got the stock. More adult hens, at first glance, buy more profitable, they start to swing faster, the breed and the floor are visible. But how they were grown, for you will remain unknown.

Breeding chicken only at first glance seems complicated. Although a couple of negative points there. Firstly, where there is food for laying hens, rats and mice can start. Secondly, cleaning in the henhouse is not a pleasure. And third, you need to think about where to store or take out the chicken manure.