What difficulties are there in raising chickens in the mountains?

In recent years, local chickens and local eggs have been very popular. Real local chickens are free-range, so many people want to raise chickens in the mountains. So what are the difficulties in raising chickens in the mountains? Let’s learn more about it below.

1. Chicken lost

Farmers who choose to raise chickens in the mountains and forests and adopt the free-range method have a relatively large breeding area. If they are not managed well, they are likely to be lost. The best solution is to build a fence with wire, and the height needs to be high enough to prevent the chickens from getting lost, and even if they are lost, they will be easier to find.

2. Difficult to manage

Chickens are flying animals , although they do not fly often. Once they encounter special circumstances and are frightened, they will fly and run around all over the mountains and fields, making it difficult for farmers to manage them.

3. Overfeeding

In order to obtain greater profits, some farmers sometimes raise chickens for a long time. However, the longer the chickens are raised, the tougher and tougher their meat will become, and the taste will be greatly reduced, and their market advantage will be lost. It needs to be raised scientifically and the breeding time cannot be too long. It is recommended that the maximum breeding time should not exceed one year.

4. Prevent stealing

When raising chickens in the wild, the chickens have a relatively large range of activities and are easily targeted by wild animals. For example, weasels often steal chickens. Fences and chicken sheds should be set up to prevent weasels from coming in to steal chickens and affect their normal growth.

5. Disease

For raising chickens on a hill, it is advisable to choose a tree canopy shading rate of about 50%. Do not build a chicken coop in a forest that is too shady. Free-range chickens are raised all year round, through spring, summer, autumn and winter. If the tree canopy shading rate is too high, and there is continuous rainy weather and cool autumn weather, it will be detrimental to the growth of chickens. The poor environmental conditions will easily cause the chickens to become sick.

If it is an ordinary epidemic, it would be fine. But if it is an infectious disease, many chickens may die in serious cases, which is the biggest loss for farmers. Therefore, when raising broiler chickens in the mountains, you must do a good job of disease prevention and control, conduct regular inspections, and if any sick chickens are found, isolate and treat them as soon as possible.

That’s it