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 tuned from a young age to develop better conditional reflexes in order 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.
Feeding drinking water
Feeding and drinking should be started 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. In feeding, for example, chickens should be hungry for a period of time before being taught and then fed with signals (such as whistle). Feeding action as much as possible to see the chicken, in order to produce hearing and visual dual induction, accelerate the formation of conditional reflex. The same signal is repeated for each feed, and conditioned reflexes are usually established in about 3 days.
Fertility while grazing
Lay the chicks into the stocking house in the afternoon or the evening before the stocking. Do not put the chickens immediately after the morning of the second day. Keep the chickens in the chicken house for a longer period of time to familiarize yourself with the new environment. Wait until after 9 am to release the feed. The feeding trough was placed 1-5 meters away from the house and the chickens were free to feed. 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.
Pre-production training
Chickens like to lay eggs in areas where the light is darker, better concealment, and quieter, so that there is a sense of security and the production of eggs is smoother. Before the first egg is laid, hens often show uneasiness and find suitable sites for laying eggs. When chickens see other chickens have already made nests or eggs in nest boxes, they will have a sense of identity. They think that this nest is suitable for laying eggs, and it is easy to put them in their nests and lay eggs in them.
The egg production of the chicken has a nesting property. Generally, the first egg of the chicken is located in this place. After that, it is still produced in this place. If this place is occupied by other chickens, it would rather wait at the entrance of the nest than 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.
Nesting boxes should be placed in a backlit or obscured manner to keep quiet and undisturbed at the nest box. The nest boxes should be sufficient. Generally, five hens should be placed in one nest, and clean and dry bedding should be laid in the nest box.
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