Chicken-broilers - how to grow ?.

The word "broiler" is borrowed from the English. The consonant "that broil" translates as "roasting on a spit". And what kind of meat is better fried? Young. Well, to be more precise, broiler chickens with an average weight of 2 kg. Their meat is considered a dietary product. In addition, it is more tender and nutritious compared to the meat of an adult bird.

Cultivation of broiler chickens is a troublesome business, but also quickly paid back. Chickens with high vitality, good meat form of the body grow quite rapidly. The most popular are broiler chicken breeds Plymouth (white) and Cornish (white), bred in the United States.

Cornish white - pure meat. In a year gives up to 120 eggs. In industrial production, white plymutrok crosses with the white cornish, which ultimately gives excellent offspring. With amateur production, you can limit yourself to white plymutrokami. For two months, broiler chickens reach one and a half kilograms, and some two. By the way, the chickens of the egg breeds would weigh no more than half a kilogram. A kilogram of weight gain consumes about 3.5 kg of feed (twice the amount required for egg-type chicken).

Grow broilers in enclosed spaces. Next to them, they arrange net fences (from the rabitsa) for walks and sunbathing. A dozen chickens will require two square meters. Young plants are released in dry and sunny weather. Unlimited poultry chicken broilers do not require: they will grow poorly. No need for them and the roosts.

The premise for the contents is chosen to be dry, light. Drafts are unacceptable. The litter (floor) becomes deep. It changes only when the next batch of broilers is settled. The best are sawdust, shavings, sunflower husks, straw sticks. Mold and odors are unacceptable. In summer, a thickness of 7 cm is sufficient, in winter - 12 cm. If the top layer is heavily soiled, it is removed, and the same amount is poured.

Broiler chickens. Feeding. It is easy to guess that nutrition has a decisive significance in growing. From the usefulness and quality of feed will depend not only on the growth and quality of meat, but also the vitality of chickens. It is best to use mixed fodders, produced specifically for broilers factories. They are already balanced, have all kinds of nutrients, vitamins, microelements. But broiler chickens can be successfully grown on mixtures of feed prepared independently.

The approximate kilogram composition of the mixture includes such components:

- to pull corn - 400 gr;
- Wheatgrass - 200 gr;
- barley barley - 150 gr;
- Oatmeal - 100 gr;
- cake sunflower - 150 gr.

To this composition it would be nice to add 50 grams of meat-bone or fish meal , or 100 grams of home-made cottage cheese. In addition, each chicken should receive 1 gram of baker's yeast per day. From the seventh day, the cut nettle, alfalfa, cabbage, grated carrots (first 5 g per chicken, gradually increasing to 20) is added to the mash (wet). And to prevent rickets, broiler chickens should receive fish oil (per gram per day).

In the diet must be present calcium: chopped eggshell or chalk (per kilogram of feed add 10 grams). For good digestibility of food you need small gravel (it is put in separate feeders). Beginning with the week-old, babies are fed three times a day with a wet (not wet, wet) mesh on milk (taken off). The dry feed mix must be constantly in separate feeders. Take care that the remains of the feed do not become sour, while in the troughs there is always fresh water. The first two weeks of broiler chickens require constant, round-the-clock lighting, then the duration of lighting (taking into account the natural daylight) is reduced to 17 hours. The intensity of electric lighting up to 20 days is 4 watts per square meter, after 20 days it's already 2 watts.

With these standards, broiler chickens grow strong, healthy and gain weight well.