How to choose high-quality chicks?
With the increasing income level of people and the rapid development of urbanization, the proportion of chicken food consumption in the total meat consumption of social residents continues to increase. At present, the chicken food is the second most consumed meat after pork. In the process of raising chickens, the first crucial issue we face is how to choose healthy chicks to improve economic efficiency. Choosing high-quality chicks not only improves economic benefits but also makes feeding easier. In this article, we will introduce the criteria for the selection of high-quality chicks and how to choose high-quality chicks.
First of all, how to judge high-quality chicks, what are the criteria for judging? Here are 4-step selection method for your reference:
The chicks are free from vertically transmitted diseases such as pullorum, mycoplasma gallisepticum, mycoplasma synovial and typhoid fever.
Understand that chicks have good heterotypic antibodies to viral diseases.
The average weight of chicks is above 40 grams.
The chicks are average in size, lively, with bright eyes, shiny feet and coat, and no bad chicks are mixed.
According to the above judging criteria of high-quality chicks, we have listed the following 4 steps to select high-quality chickens:
Select chicks that are large, free of variegated fluff, and lively for seedlings after hatching.
Select chickens between 35 days and 45 days old, and choose those with well-developed crowns, bright red color, and larger body weights (especially the size of the crown of laying chickens has a significant positive correlation with the size of the testicles).
The selection of chickens is carried out one week before the group transfer, and the roosters with a large body, good development, plump feathers and bright red beard are selected; geese are generally selected for the third time before the start of production, that is, at the age of 150 days to 180 days.
Cocks selected for artificial insemination should undergo semen collection training at the age of 27 to 28 weeks, and roosters with large semen collection and good semen quality should be selected.
Therefore, in the breeding process, the majority of our farmers must understand and know the standards of high-quality chicks and the 4-step selection method of high-quality chickens, so as to choose the best quality chickens and reduce the troubles of breeding.
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