How To Raise Chicks Best

People have their favorite pets, such as cats, dogs, fish, rabbits, hamsters, etc. One bird animal that everyone must have come in contact with as a child is the soft-furred chick. Chickens are cute animals, so if you have not been exposed to them for a long time, take a look at how to raise chicks, and I am sure you will be interested in them.

How to raise chicks’ best

• please prepare a paper box (such as a milk crate; I think Tresor milk crates are better). Please use scissors or a fruit knife to poke at least five eyes on the box to breathe so that when the chickens enter the box, you can cover the lid will not be stuffy.

• please lay two layers of newspaper (waste newspaper can be) in the box. Please choose the thick newspaper to ensure that the chick’s excrement does not leak. The newspaper is laid out, so now use our joint toilet paper! Tear off at least eight pieces of toilet paper and tear them into a long strip afterward. Then we look closely at the toilet paper. It is two layers of paper, to that long strip of toilet paper four into two layers, so that it becomes two, and lighter and thinner.

• use your hands to tear off the light paper. Pay attention not to pursue the perfect tear very well. The report is torn into irregular shapes. The more, the better. Because these is more chicks to keep warm, you could put them in the box and lay it out after pulling.

• Attention! Because the chicks are growing fast, the box will be changed at any time in the “food for chicks” section.

How to choose chicks

• The right choice: chicks are lively and jumpy, like grabbing other people’s food and flying out. When you put it in the palm of your hand and put the food on the side, it will not hesitate to grab the food rather than close its eyes like other chicks who are eager for the warmth of your hand.

• Wrong choice: “The chick is tranquil and well-behaved, and it will close its eyes tightly when you put it in your hand. And it will stand still in the flock, like most chicks. This kind of chick is not lively and may get sick later.

How to raise a chick without disease

• Chickens refer to 1-6 weeks old chickens. The chicken stage is the most critical stage of the entire growth period. To make the average growth and development of chicks, the key is to reduce mortality. And improve survival rate, then for the particular stage of the chickens how to feed to make it no disease or less sick.

• First of all, we must have a perfect body to resist disease. Chicks require fresh feed, moderate particle size, easy to peck, nutritious, and easy to digest. Commonly used meals are broken grains, rice, millet, and available full-price feed with conditions. Chicks should be fed diligently, add less, keep the room quiet, the last meal at night shall be provided, fed enough to feed 1/3 more than other times. And adequately extend the eating time so that the chickens grow better.

• It is crucial to maintain a suitable feeding density. The density is too large, increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Chicken coop. Chickens excrete more feces, resulting in excessive humidity. Hence, the bedding emits many harmful gases, affecting the environmental health of the house. The density is too large, and the chicks are easily restricted in their activities and drinking. Feeding impacts the growth and development of chickens prone to feather pecking and other diseases. If the density is too small, resulting in a waste of equipment and, energy, workforce, increasing the cost of rearing. The general density of rearing chicks is 30/m2.

• Other management of chicks is also sloppy, temperature and humidity to maintain appropriate, especially the newborns’ low body temperature. So suitable to maintain a high temperature of about 33 degrees is very necessary. Humidity is too high or too low for the chickens will have a negative impact. Ventilation and disinfection are essential purification measures for the chicken environment. Chicks have low body resistance, so creating a suitable growth environment is an external factor for less disease. The light should be operated reasonably according to scientific regulations.

Precautions for raising chicks

• Pay attention to chicken dysentery. Chicken dysentery is an infectious disease caused by Salmonella chicken dysentery. The sick chick is mentally atrophied, its head shrank, wings drooping, pulling white paste-like thin feces. When defecating, the anus is often stuck by feces, making a “squeak, squeak” sound. If you find this condition, please isolate the sick chickens because chicken dysentery is contagious, even to humans. What is needed for treatment is not usually available and difficult to succeed, so ……

• Be careful not to feed giant, foot-rich worms to too small chicks.

• Pay attention to the chick that can be put out on the lawn above the run in the sun. Let it eat some tiny ants, eat grass, and so on. Never pick a property that has been sprayed with pesticides. It will die.