Breeding chickens is an interesting and profitable business. If you have not taken care of raising your own chicks under a hen or in an incubator, you can buy day old chicks for summer rearing.
Day-old chicks broilers
You can buy day-old broilers at the nearest poultry farm, where the mass sale of young stock is carried out. Find out in advance on what day the chickens will be sold. Before you travel, prepare everything you need to ensure that all livestock arrive safe and sound.
You can bring chickens from the poultry farm in cardboard boxes lined with sawdust or straw. No more than 15-20 heads can be placed in one box.
Remember, a broiler is an interbreeding chick. It is no longer possible to get your own broiler chickens from the eggs of such a chicken. Therefore, it is rational to buy poultry at a local poultry farm annually for fast meat feeding.
Day-old laying hens
Day-old laying hens can be bought not only at the poultry farm, but also at the market where farm animals, cats, birds, and dogs are sold. When buying, ask what breed of day-old chicks. For example, the Australope breed shows not only excellent egg production. High quality meat can be obtained from such chickens. Chickens of the Amroks, Velzumer, Orlovskaya, Prat, Kuchinskaya Yubileinaya, Plymutrok breeds have also proven themselves quite well.
How to prevent the death of young animals
You can save all the livestock of day-old chicks by observing certain rules. First, take care of placing day old chicks in a room with a temperature of at least 28 degrees. Eliminate drafts. Divide the day old chicks into separate boxes at night.
Pay special attention to feeding. For day old chicks, a finely chopped hard boiled egg can be used as feed. After 24 hours, add loose millet porridge to the diet. After seven days, gradually add cottage cheese, finely chopped greens.
