Daily Routine Checkup when Raring Chicken
Raring Chicken is not easy mostly to starters in this kind of farming, from their first stage of growth to their last, chicken need a lot of attention, an effort of strictness to get more of the output than the input. These out puts don’t come by their own but with constant hard work, followed by daily routine checkups on a daily basis.
Belowaresomeofthedailyroutine checkups for a startingfarmer he\she should not miss
1. Proper hygiene and cleanliness.
Chicken from their first stage need high hygiene and cleanliness. Use disinfectant on your boots before entering the farm and its advisable to separate them from other boots
Daily cleaning of feeding troughs and drinkers to ensure your chicken feed clean food and water.
2. Record your chicken farm records
On a daily basis; this will help you as farmer monitor your chicken performance from their health, size, and number of eggs if laying and also helps you record down any change in your chicken on a daily basis.
3. Daily Feed your chicken
And always be consistent in feeding them, if you serve your chicken three meals a day, you must keep the track because one miss of a meal or a day in chicken without eating can affect their production output.
4. Daily Food Checkup
Before feeding your chicken, make a daily cross check of the chicken food incase their foreign particles like plastic items and other materials that can contaminent the food or chock the chicken in case they take it as food.
5. Regularly check your food store,
Ensure that its cool warm and dry and safe from pets like rats and local chicken, these simple breaches if left un checked on a daily basis can lead to a big food loss for your chicken with time hence better to make a daily routine checkup on the food store.
6. Daily check coffee husks,
And ensure they are dry, chicken are so much disturbed by wet coffee husks and floors, chicken tend to develop swollen toes and will also be another cost, daily routine checkups will help you to prevent and cure the disease before it spreads.
7. A quite environment and surrounding,
At the stage of laying eggs for layers or Kroilers, ensure your chicken have a daily quite environment and surrounding, for any developments in the farm that will cause a lot of noise in the farm it’s advisable to first move out all the chicken from the working place.
Did you know that even a small sound produced by the hammer when hammering a nail can also be a disturbance in your chicken egg laying?
In conclusion
Daily routine checkups are not only what you need to get the most output of your chicken, however these checkups will help you as a farmer gain knowledge of day today life of your chicken and keep track of your chicken performance and behavior, this will help you get the best solution for any challenge in your chicken farm specifically.
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