Why do we need to keep chicklings away from colds?

2022-09-18 09:04:21

The Taihe black-bone chicken is a famous medicinal chicken breed in China. However, they are not black on the surface, but instead are dressed in white silk hair. Why then is it called the "black chicken"?

If you look closely, you will find that this kind of black-bone chicken is black except that the hair is white. The mouth, tongue, and feet are black, and the blacker the more you look inside. The skin beneath the hair is black, the internal organs are all black, and the meat is black, especially the bones, which is the darkest. Wuji as a medicinal herb has a long history in China. It treats diabetes, middle evil, abdominal and abdominal pain, and consumptive losses. The main ingredient of China's famous Chinese patent medicine â€œWuji Baifeng Pillâ€ is the meat, internal organs and bones of Wuji Chicken. Even the eggs produced by black-bone chickens contain higher levels of amino acids than ordinary eggs and have a very high nutritional and tonic effect.

Breeding Taihe black-bone chicken breeder is the first step. Small-sized chickens are born weak and sensitive to changes in the temperature of the environment. Chickens have poor resistance and low survival rates. In addition to being small, some small black chicks do not eat too much and are particularly prone to having a cold. The cold chicken seedlings eat less, and more often they are listless and wilting. It is not easy to say that they are a little soft and sick. When the young black chicks have a cold, their resistance will fall, so that the little ones can easily get sick again. Brooding is difficult to succeed and the survival rate is poor.

For petite black chicks, a cold is a big problem. It is necessary to know that black-bone chickens have medicinal value as black-bone chickens. The health of chickens will directly affect the medicinal quality of future chickens. So how can we keep the young black chicks away from the cold?

First of all, in the brooding stage, farmers are required to exercise stricter control over temperature during the brooding period, which is about one degree higher than that of ordinary chickens. During the first week of brooding, the average temperature of ordinary chickens can be maintained at about 34 degrees, and the optimum temperature for the first week of Taihe Blackbirds is 35 to 36 degrees Celsius. A slight change in temperature will cause the cold chicken to catch a cold.

How to maintain the temperature of the brood nest? In general, brood broods are broiled with a stove, but sometimes the fire is sizzling, and sometimes the fire is small and the temperature difference is large. Small brooders are susceptible to colds. Adjusting the stove is also difficult. Therefore, it is possible to change the heating of the fire to a simple and easy bulb heating. As long as the lights are on and then covered with thick quilts, the temperature in the brooding room will remain constant. To prepare more bulbs with different wattages, you should have 25W, 40W, 60W, 100W to 200W. Prepare so many light bulbs of different wattages, in order to control the temperature according to the needs of the small black chicken. If the temperature of a 200 watt bulb is high, it is replaced with 100 watts and the temperature is down. If the temperature is low, the wattage is replaced and the temperature rises.

The temperature of young chicks in the brooding stage is not always constant. The optimal temperature for the first week is 35-36Â°C, and the temperature at the second week of age is reduced to 32-34Â°C, and then decreased by 1 to 2Â°C per week. Therefore, every week, the breeder in the farm must adjust the temperature by changing the light bulb. With the right temperature, the whole brooding chick will not catch cold again because of hot and cold.