How to solve the chicken feed related problems in laying hen breeding？

Feed cost accounts for more than 70% of the cost of laying hens. However, due to the negligence of the concept of feeding and the management of details such as the environment and cages, the waste of feed will be unintentionally caused. How to avoid the waste of feed is undoubtedly crucial to the profitability of chicken raising. Below are some wasteful scenarios and solutions.

I. Scatter the feed during manual feeding

This situation is common in hand-feeding chicken farms and is mostly ignored by farms and breeders.

Hightop battery cage suggestions:

1) Improve the breeder’s awareness of benefits and make feeding proficient and accurate.

2) Using the automatic feeder can not only accurately feed the feed, but also save labor costs.

II. Unreasonable design of the trough

Feed splashes out when chickens eat, this situation mostly occurs when the quality of the trough is not good enough or the trough is installed incorrectly, and the feeding is uneven.

Hightop battery cage suggestion:

It is necessary to adjust and improve the trough in time, and pay attention to the thickness of the material layer in the trough not exceeding 1/3 of its height when feeding.

III. Chicken house temperature problem

The ambient temperature of the chicken house is not suitable, and the feed intake of the chicken is additionally increased. Different growth stages of chickens require different suitable temperatures. For chickens in the laying period, if the temperature of the chicken house is lower than 20 ℃, it will consume more nutrients and waste feed.

Hightop battery cages suggest：

Watch out that effective cold-proof and thermal insulation measures should be taken in spring and autumn, especially in winter, and strive to control the appropriate house temperature to improve feed conversion.

IV. Chickens do not stop beaks or beaks are unreasonable

Beak breaking can effectively prevent the chicken’s mouth from hooking out of the feed, reduce feed waste, and prevent the pecking of feathers and anus. Generally, beaks are cut at 7-10 days of age. For chickens whose beaks are unreasonable, they need to be trimmed again before they are put into the cage.

V. Remaining chickens are not eliminated in time:

Defective chickens eat feed but do not produce, waste feed, and must be eliminated in time.

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