Rules for laying hens, or Why the chicken does not swoop

Almost all poultry farmers periodically try to find an answer to the question of why the chicken does not carry. Lead to a sharp decline or total absence of oviposition Can a huge number of factors: incorrect conditions of detention; Stress; Improper feeding; health status.

In each case, the problem should be solved in different ways. However, before trying to answer the question of why the chicken does not carry, it is worth looking for clutch. Perhaps the bird simply changed the location of egg deposition. This can happen if the position of the laying hen in the school changes or if the former place for some reason has stopped the chicken from satisfying. If you can not find the clutch, you should carefully study the possible reasons that chickens do not rush.

Conditions of detention

Very often the lack of socks in chickens can be a consequence of their incorrect content. The greatest influence in this case is provided by the temperature and light regimes. The optimum temperature of the bird content, at which the maximum egg production is reached, is considered to be an interval from +17 to +25 degrees. A lower temperature leads to an increase in feed intake, and a high one leads to an increase in the amount of water consumed. Both these factors negatively affect the number of eggs.

The minimum duration of a day's light should be 12 hours. With the growth of hens and the increase in egg production, this value should be increased to 17 hours. In this case, often poultry farmers make the mistake of leaving light in the hen house for the night. Doing this is not worth it, as laying hens need rest.

Stress

It may seem strange, but one more reason why the chicken does not carry can become stress. To cause fright and, as a consequence, the nervous state in laying hens may be heat, thirst, hunger, the crowdedness of the space allocated to them. It is important to ensure that all these factors in the life of the hens are manifested as rarely as possible. This will help to avoid a drop in egg production.

Improper feeding

Another reason that can lead to a decrease in the number of eggs is Lack of any nutrients. In addition, in this case, the quality of eggs often deteriorates: they become smaller.

Food for chicken should be varied. Their diet should include:

• A variety of whole grains (oats, barley, wheat);
• Greens, vegetables, root crops in such quantity, which will not cause a liquid stool;
• Mineral substances necessary for the formation of shells (contained in chalk, shell, bone meal, crushed eggshell).

In the henhouse there should always be small pebbles necessary for birds to digest properly. Do not forget about the importance of the availability of loose layers of clean water in sufficient quantities.

Health status

Every year for about seven weeks the chicken can not carry eggs due to a change of pen or, more simply, moult. At this time it is important to enrich the diet of birds with protein.

Another reason why a chicken does not carry can be its age or even the age of the cock that lives in the pack. After the chicken has reached the age of two years, and also in the case of the aging of the cock, the egg production is significantly reduced. Therefore, it is important to periodically update the flock, populating the young layers, removing the old ones and changing the cock to a younger one.

It is important for a poultry farmer to remember that only with good care and careful attention to laying hens can they be maximized from egg laying.