By planning and successfully starting a home-grown chicken egg business, you are puzzled by many questions. First of all, a novice farmer is interested in how to feed laying hens, how to organize a room for them and maintain a regime in it. All this is not so difficult, not very expensive, and since there is a constant demand for products, it is certainly profitable. Let's talk more about feeding poultry.
How to feed laying hens
The egg-laying chicken diet should be complete and include vegetable (whole grain and flour mixes), animal feed, and minerals.
How to feed laying hens if you have a breeding stock of poultry from which you get eggs to incubate young animals? In the feed for them there should be a high content of easily digestible protein and vitamins (B, E). The source of vitamin E is
sprouted grain, vitamins of group B - yeast. This category of poultry in the diet also needs fish oil.
What foods are used for laying eggs
For this, cereals, legumes, oilcakes and meal in the form of concentrates are used. Also needed are fish, meat and bone meal, milk, cottage cheese, green grass, carrots, beets, potatoes, bran, coniferous flour, limestone, chalk, feed phosphates, salt. Basically, the bird is fed with full-feed mixtures, in addition, food waste, vegetable tops are relevant. Mineral feed should always be in the house. Before oviposition (in two to three weeks), a reserve of calcium must be created in the body of the bird. The egg production of chickens is phase, the first stage is characterized by intensive production of eggs, it lasts from 21-22 weeks to 48 weeks, reaching a peak of 28-29. During this period, you need to feed the bird high-calorie, low-volume feed. After 48 weeks, productivity and nutrient requirements drop.
In how to feed laying hens, the feeding regimen is of great importance. Dry feed is given twice a day. If wet mixers are used, then the frequency of meals is increased to three to four. At the same time, they make sure that food is not in the feeders for more than 30-40 minutes.
Here is an example layout of how to feed laying hens (per head per day):
Grain - 50 g, flour mixture - 50 g, hay flour - up to 10 g., Succulent feed (carrots, beets) - up to 50 g., Dry protein feed - 10-15 g., Crushed shell - 5 g. , bone meal - 2 g, salt - 0.5 g. The total amount of feed mixture per chicken per day is 120 g. Thus, the annual consumption will be about 44 kg. The amount of daily feed when adding juicy and green feed to the diet is 170 g.
Water for a bird per head needs about 250-300 g per day at a room temperature of 10 to 18 o C.
A few words in conclusion
The content of laying hens at home, of course, differs from the industrial: no even rows of cages, automatic drinkers, food dispensers, cleaning units. But at home production, the farmer knows almost every chicken “by sight”, its features and problems. He can organize business as efficiently as possible with this in mind. In the case of poultry disease, it is not difficult for a farmer to notice this among a small herd and respond promptly.