What food does the chicken eat?
1, food selection
Chickens eat wheat, corn, sorghum, rice and other foods. Free-range chickens also dig snails, earthworms, grass seeds and insects from the soil to eat. However, chickens have no teeth and can't chew food, so they also eat gravel or sand to help digest food in their stomachs and absorb nutrients.
2. Breeding grounds
To raise chickens, we should choose the leeward woodland or tea garden with high terrain and convenient drainage, and build a suspended henhouse in the leeward corner of the breeding base to provide a safe and quiet place to rest and lay eggs. In addition, a trough and sink should be placed under the henhouse to facilitate the chicken's diet.
3. Disease prevention
When raising chickens, you should clean the henhouse once a day to clean up the feces and food residues in the environment, so as to avoid breeding bacteria in the farm and making the chickens sick. When cleaning the pen house, it is necessary to disinfect the trough and water tank, so that chickens can grow up healthily.
4. Preventive measures
Every spring, chickens are in heat in March and April. During this period, it is necessary to observe the state of eggs and select fertilized eggs for incubation. When hatching, choose hens with strong nesting awareness and put them in bamboo cages with fertilized eggs, so that hens can hatch eggs smoothly.