REARING CHICKENS
Please take note of the following information that will be of great value when rearing your chickens:
Please take note of the following information that will be of great value when rearing your chickens:
- They are very small and fragile treat them with love and care.
- Put up an infra red light ± 1m from the floor.
- Put coarse saw dust as bedding not fine sawdust.
- Put down 5L or 2L water fonts with some electrolytes or booster in the water.
- Place large pas of food on ground wet a 1/3 of feed.
- Do not place food or water near infra red light.
- There must be enough space for chicks to move away from light.
- One infra red light is enough for 250 (two hundred and fifty) chicks.
- Feed pullet starter to hens (not broiler stater).
- After 7 (seven) days during the day put infra red lights off when temperature is higher than 20◦C.
- Allow sunlight in on chicks, this will develop feathers much quicker.
- Keep to inoculation program.
- Feed AD LIB till 4 (four) weeks old.
- Refresh water 3 x daily cool water.
- After 14 (fourteen) days let them outside during the day but allow access back into cage.
- If chicks start to peck each other you need to add more feed trays or pans.
- Remove sick or weak chicks and keep them separate until healthy and strong.
- Do not allow strangers into chick houses. Keep good bio security in tact.
- Visit chicks often to see if all is in order.
- From 21 (twenty one) days put Viro-kill in drinking water 10ml per 10L of water.
- Keep 10 (ten) chickens per square meter.
- Put a bit of saw dust on floor.
- Feed as table data on feed file.
- Keep inoculation program up.
- Give anti-body boost once every 3 (three) weeks.
- Give Viro-kill in water every 2 (two) weeks 10ml per 10L.
- Separate all sick and weak chicks – sick bay.
- Treat with medication.
- Put back after strong and healthy.
- Feed pullet grower to hens (not broiler grower).
- Visit cage often to check for any strange habits i.e.: sneezing, cough etc.
- Remove bedding every 6 (six) weeks.
- Disinfect cage floor.
- Give cool water at all times.
- 1/3 (one third) of feed must be mixed with water and given wet to chickens. Make feed like Pronutro porridge must be “sloppy”.
- Put in cage for outside range.
- 10 (ten) Chickens per square meter inside.
- Range can be any size.
- From 18 (eighteen) weeks old give each laying hen 120g (one hundred and twenty grams) 105 layers mash (NOT CRUMBS OR PELLETS).
- Place 210L drums (cut open in length) on ground fill half full with saw dust use as egg laying box.
- One half drum enough for 50 (fifty) layers.
- Put one tube feeder per 50 (fifty) hens.
- Put one bell drinker per 100 (one hundred) hens.
- Pick up eggs 4 (four) times per day.
- Feed every day at the same time.
- Wet 1/3 of the feed.
- Keep good record of daily egg production.
- Remove sick and weak layers keep separate until strong and healthy.
- Keep inoculation program up.
- De worm every 4 (four) months with Ecomycrin in water – always give cool water.
- Detox with liver flush.
- Find new markets for eggs all the time.
- Impress the house wife – she feeds her family.
- They are very small and fragile treat them with love and care.
- Put up an infra red light ± 1m from the floor.
- Put coarse saw dust as bedding not fine sawdust.
- Put down 5L or 2L water fonts with some electrolytes or booster in the water.
- Place large pas of food on ground wet a 1/3 of feed.
- Do not place food or water near infra red light.
- There must be enough space for chicks to move away from light.
- One infra red light is enough for 250 (two hundred and fifty) chicks.
- Feed pullet starter to hens (not broiler stater).
- After 7 (seven) days during the day put infra red lights off when temperature is higher than 20◦C.
- Allow sunlight in on chicks, this will develop feathers much quicker.
- Keep to inoculation program.
- Feed AD LIB till 4 (four) weeks old.
- Refresh water 3 x daily cool water.
- After 14 (fourteen) days let them outside during the day but allow access back into cage.
- If chicks start to peck each other you need to add more feed trays or pans.
- Remove sick or weak chicks and keep them separate until healthy and strong.
- Do not allow strangers into chick houses. Keep good bio security in tact.
- Visit chicks often to see if all is in order.
- From 21 (twenty one) days put Viro-kill in drinking water 10ml per 10L of water.
- Keep 10 (ten) chickens per square meter.
- Put a bit of saw dust on floor.
- Feed as table data on feed file.
- Keep inoculation program up.
- Give anti-body boost once every 3 (three) weeks.
- Give Viro-kill in water every 2 (two) weeks 10ml per 10L.
- Separate all sick and weak chicks – sick bay.
- Treat with medication.
- Put back after strong and healthy.
- Feed pullet grower to hens (not broiler grower).
- Visit cage often to check for any strange habits i.e.: sneezing, cough etc.
- Remove bedding every 6 (six) weeks.
- Disinfect cage floor.
- Give cool water at all times.
- 1/3 (one third) of feed must be mixed with water and given wet to chickens. Make feed like Pronutro porridge must be “sloppy”.
- Put in cage for outside range.
- 10 (ten) Chickens per square meter inside.
- Range can be any size.
- From 18 (eighteen) weeks old give each laying hen 120g (one hundred and twenty grams) 105 layers mash (NOT CRUMBS OR PELLETS).
- Place 210L drums (cut open in length) on ground fill half full with saw dust use as egg laying box.
- One half drum enough for 50 (fifty) layers.
- Put one tube feeder per 50 (fifty) hens.
- Put one bell drinker per 100 (one hundred) hens.
- Pick up eggs 4 (four) times per day.
- Feed every day at the same time.
- Wet 1/3 of the feed.
- Keep good record of daily egg production.
- Remove sick and weak layers keep separate until strong and healthy.
- Keep inoculation program up.
- De worm every 4 (four) months with Ecomycrin in water – always give cool water.
- Detox with liver flush.
- Find new markets for eggs all the time.
- Impress the house wife – she feeds her family.
