Ecological chicken three training

Eco-stocking chickens are free to move and feed, which brings certain difficulties to the management of livestock breeding. Therefore, ecological stocking chickens should be trained from a young age to develop better conditions for radiation to facilitate management. Tuning refers to giving special instructions or signals under specific circumstances, so that chickens gradually form conditioned reflexes or produce habitual behavior.

First, the adjustment of feeding and drinking of drinking water should begin at the time of brooding. A special kind of sound is usually used as a signal. This kind of sound should be soft and loud. Do not use blasting sounds or imitate beasts. The duration can be long or short. Whistles and percussion metal objects are used in production. For example, before feeding, the chicken should have a hungry time, and then give a signal (such as whistle) while feeding, and the feeding action can be seen as much as possible by the chicken so as to produce a double sense of hearing and vision and accelerate the conditions. The formation of reflections. The same signal is repeated for each feed, and conditioned reflexes are usually established in about 3 days.

Second, grazing training stocking one day before the afternoon or evening, once the chickens into the stocking house, the first day after the morning do not put chickens immediately after dawn, let the chicken stay in the chicken house for a longer period of time in order to familiarize with the new environment . Wait until after 9 am to release the feed. Feeding troughs are placed 1 to 5 meters away from the house, allowing chickens to feed freely. In the first few days, the stocking time should be shorter each day, and then the stocking time should be increased day by day, and fences should be set to limit the scope of activities, and then continue to expand the stocking area.

Third, pre-laying chickens prefer to lay eggs in a darker, better hidden, quieter place, so there will be a sense of security, production is also relatively smooth. Before the first egg is laid, hens often show uneasiness and find suitable sites for laying eggs. When chickens see nests of other chickens or eggs in nest boxes, they will feel a sense of identity and think that this nest is suitable for laying eggs, and it is easy to use it as its own nest for laying eggs. The egg production of the chicken has a nesting property. Generally, the first egg of the chicken is located in this place. After that, the egg is still produced in this place. If this place is occupied by other chickens, it is better to wait at the entrance of the nest than to enter the empty space next to it. Nest, waiting for a few chickens to lay eggs in a nest box at the same time, despite being forced to exclude and expelling hens are also not care. Therefore, pre-production tuning is extremely important. About one week before the start of production, nest boxes should be placed to familiarize the chickens with the environment inside the nest box. The nest boxes should be placed in a backlit or darkened position to keep the egg boxes quiet and undisturbed. The nest boxes should be sufficient. Generally, five hens should be placed in one nest. There should be clean and dry bedding in the nesting box.