What chicken should be eliminated?
2020-12-29
Do you know these 8 ways to eliminate laying hens?
1. Disabled chickens: Blind, crooked, limp, thin, twisted, and bald-tailed chickens in the flock should be eliminated before 20 weeks of age.
2. Beautiful-looking chickens: At about 250 days of age, the feathers are relatively complete, shiny, unusually flexible and fast, and the combs are ruddy, and the beautiful-looking chickens are often low-yielding chickens, or even do not lay eggs, and waste materials.
3. Chickens with dry and hard feces should be eliminated: due to less feed, slow digestion, atrophy of the digestive tract
4. Eggs have been laid for more than 5 months, the combs are pale and thin, the legs and beak are white or the legs and beaks change from white to yellow and shiny.
5. Big-bellied chickens: Chicken flocks after 280 days of age may feel big and hard or soft as water when touched, and should be eliminated.
6. Chickens with early moulting: moult chickens that have been moulted in August and have a long duration and a long time to stop production. After completing a laying period, laying hens are generally moulted from September to October every year. .
7. Chickens that lay large eggs: Some chickens lay eggs as big as duck eggs, and often only one egg is laid in 3 days. The calculation of egg materials has already lost money.
8. Non-laying chickens and chickens with soft eggs and broken eggs.