There are such types of feed for laying hens:
Feed for poultry produced onspecialized factories. They include crushed (crushed) grains, vegetable fats, premixes (vitamin supplements), salt, and meat and bone meal. For chickens, shredded shell rock is often included in the compound feed. In the sale of feed for laying hens can be in the form of shredded, as well as in the form of pellets. Practice proves that granulated food is better stored, since air circulates freely between individual granules. In crushed feeds, air circulation is difficult, therefore, their shelf life is low, they often absorb moisture from the air, self-heat and sour.
Compound feed for birds is fed dry orin the form of mash. Here preferences are different. Some people think that steamed food is better absorbed by chickens, others believe that in natural conditions birds do not have the ability to consume wet food, therefore breeders prefer to use only dry food. Who is right? Observation of the bird showed that wet food is absorbed faster and better, and feeding only dry food leads to the fact that the body removes some of the food eaten without assimilation. Consequently, in the domestic poultry farming feed is better to give in the form of masses with pre-steaming. In this case, the cellulose in the composition of the feed partially disintegrates into short molecules, which also contributes to a better absorption of the feed.
При домашнем разведении кур доля комбикормов makes up no more than 50% of their diet, since a part of them can be replaced with other feed available on the farm. The feed for laying hens is supplemented with ordinary grain, and the wheat with great pleasure is pecked off by the bird. But to give only one wheat means not to add a number of necessary components that are not originally in it. Sunflower seeds from sunflower will add the necessary vegetable fat, barley - fiber, which is necessary to improve digestion. Corn is snapped up only after partial crushing, otherwise it is hardly absorbed by chickens.
How much grain is needed?The researchers proved that the feed for laying hens should contain at least 0.12 feed units daily. The energy value of 1 kg of oats is taken as one feed unit. But the oats of the hens almost do not peck, it is practically not absorbed by them. Therefore, recalculation is performed on wheat, which has a high energy value. It is believed that chickens should be given 115-117 g of feed in recalculation for wheat.
Feeding for laying hens in the householdsupplemented and greens. In the summer, free-range birds constantly peck at all the types of grass available to them. In winter, they are happy to eat cabbage, nettle brooms, harvested in summer, pumpkin cut into slices, and other similar foods.
In winter, a useful additive in the mash willboiled potatoes, but it should not exceed 30% of the total composition. It is important, even in winter, to give the mash chills, otherwise the birds can burn the esophagus, which will lead to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and death. For the prevention of gastric diseases in the winter, it is necessary to give chopped hot peppers to chickens. It contains many different vitamins, and also contributes to the destruction of any infection in the poultry stomach. It is necessary to include river sand in feed for laying hens, which helps the mechanical grinding of coarse food, including grain, increasing the feeding efficiency.
