How to raise chickens at home

In rural areas, family chicken farming is a common breeding method. It not only provides a source of income for farmers, but is also crucial to the success of family chicken farming for farmers. In order to ensure the smooth progress of chicken farming, farmers must implement scientific feeding and management of chicken houses and chicken flocks. Below I will teach you how to raise chickens at home.

1. Feeding strategy

Feed 2 to 3 times a day, preferably with vegetable leaves, corn, leftovers and cooked noodles ; laying hens need additional calcium supplementation, which can be provided with sand, pebbles, broken bones or meat scraps. Raised in this way, chickens grow healthily and lay large and abundant eggs. Also, make sure the chickens have access to clean water at all times.

2. Seasonal Management

In summer, the chickens can be released earlier because the weather is hot and releasing them earlier helps them move around. In winter, the chickens should be released later to avoid the morning fog causing the chickens to catch a cold.

3. Breeding methods

To increase the survival rate, it is recommended to use iron cages to keep the chicks after they are hatched , avoid raising them together with hens, and reduce the risk of getting lost or being preyed upon by natural enemies. The chicks grow fast and strong using feed .

4. Free-range strategy

To improve the texture of chicken , chickens should be free-range regularly to allow them to forage for sand and insects, which helps digestion, making the meat firmer, more delicious and more resistant.

5. Herbal tea feeding

Feed chickens herbal tea regularly to prevent lung heat, colds and asthma caused by long-term feeding. Once chickens start panting, it will be difficult to treat and may even cause an epidemic, so special attention must be paid.

6. Chicken House Environment

Prepare a well-ventilated and spacious chicken coop for the chickens, avoid crowding, maintain air circulation, clean the chicken coop regularly, avoid accumulation of chicken manure, and reduce the environment for the breeding of bacteria and viruses.

VII. Vaccination

In accordance with the village policy, report the number of chickens raised to the village committee in a timely manner and carry out regular vaccinations to increase the quantity and quality of chickens. Prevention work should be completed before the disease occurs, as it has limited effect after the disease occurs.

8. Classification and breeding

Chickens should be raised according to their size, with small chicks kept together and large chickens kept together, to avoid raising large and small chickens together, which would cause small chicks to have difficulty competing for food, resulting in malnutrition and affecting the number and quality of chickens.

In short, there are many people raising chickens in every household in rural areas. If you want to make a profit from your own family farming model, you need to pay more attention to these issues.