Growing Broilers in Home Conditions

Many on homesteads are grown for personal consumption of domestic animals and birds. Growing broilers at home is very beneficial, as chickens, if properly kept, weigh 50 pounds after 50 days, and after two or two and a half months - about two kilograms.

Growing broilers at home has some specific features. For example, if you keep them freely, they gain weight badly, so broilers should be kept in a warm house regularly and strictly observe the light regime. In good weather, it is possible to produce broilers in small marshy sidewalk-solariums.

Chickens are usually bought from producers who breed them specifically for sale. Many tend to buy daily chickens at the lowest price. But due to the fact that young animals die precisely in the first days, it is better to buy ten-day chickens. Select only active chickens with clear, shining eyes. If the chicken is sluggish, and his eyelids are half-closed, it is better not to take it. In the first ten days, chickens need round-the-clock lighting, after day 11, a light day is 16 hours a day. Growing broilers at home is possible in cages, drawers-warmers or elevezah and on deep bedding.

First of all, the room in which broilers will be kept at home should be disinfected and insulated. Deep litter should always be dry and clean. In the first week, the temperature of the air in the room should be about 30 degrees. In a large room, you need to install a heater and put fences around it to reduce the movement area of the chickens. The fence is removed on the 10th day. Each week, the temperature should be lowered by 2-4 degrees, and on the 21st day the heater is turned off altogether. Lighting is left only above the water bowl and feeder. In the unlit zone, chickens rest, in the lighted - eat.

The temperature at which broilers are grown at home should be constantly monitored. If the room is cold, the chickens are kept in the elevator and permanently heated with infrared lamps or hot water bottles with sand or water, and then released to the house in 21 days. At 0,6 square meters can accommodate 30 chickens.

With cell content, the temperature in the room should be higher than for floor maintenance by 2-4 degrees. In this case, heaters are also used with heaters or lamps with infrared radiation. On the 11th day, an intermittent method of lighting is used, that is, every two hours the light and dark time alternate.

With this mode of maintenance, broilers in the home are not moving very fast and gaining weight quickly. Successful growing of broilers at home depends on full-fledged feeding. At the beginning of the broiler chickens are fed as well as the usual - chopped egg. In the starting period, chickens are better able to feed balanced feeds prepared at the plant.

If the feed is not on sale, then you need to prepare the mixture yourself. Feed for broilers should include all the substances necessary for the normal growth of chickens with mandatory inclusion of proteins, trace elements and vitamins. It is mandatory to give grain feeds, and in crushed form and without films, more than half of the entire diet.

When the chicks reach the age of twenty days, some of the grains can be replaced with potatoes, which must be boiled, kneaded and added to the grain mix. This chicken is eaten with great pleasure. As protein feed, fresh cottage cheese, buttermilk and other dairy products are most often used.

At the age of ten days, chicken and fish can be given fish and slaughter waste - five to seven grams per day per head, gradually increasing to ten to fifteen grams. Already on the third day the chickens are given green forage, and in the autumn and winter, when there is no fresh herbs, you can give the chickens germinated grains and grassy flour.

With due care, the chickens grow well and gain weight quickly, so growing broilers at home can be very profitable.