Ten Ways to Improve the Survival Rate of Brooding

How to improve the survival rate of brooding？

1.Strict Disinfection

    Prepare the brooding room before the chicks come. Rinse the trough drinker thoroughly with clean water, then scrub with hot alkaline water, rinse with clean water, and dry. Rinse the brooding room with clean water, lay the bedding after drying, put in the brooding utensils, fumigate and disinfect with 28ml formalin, 14g potassium permanganate and 14ml water per cubic meter of space.

    Close tightly. After 12 to 24 hours, open the doors and windows for ventilation and preheat the room temperature to above 30°C to allow the chicks to be placed in the brooding room.

2.Choose Healthy Chicks

    Healthy chickens are generally lively and active, with strong legs, free movement, clear eyes, and good navel healing. The sickly chick had dirty feathers, lacked energy, closed his eyes and took a nap, and stood unsteady. When buying chicks, be sure to choose healthy chicks.

3.Timely Drinking Water

    The chicks can lose 8% of water within 24 hours and 15% within 48 hours. When the water loss is greater than 15%, symptoms of dehydration will soon appear.

    Therefore, the chicks should be provided with adequate and clean drinking water 12 hours after they are out of the shell. In the first few days, drink 0.01% potassium permanganate and water added with multivitamins to disinfect drinking water and clean up the stomach and intestines, and promote meconium excretion.

4.Well Fed

    The feed should have good palatability, easy digestion, fresh quality, and moderate particle size. The chicks can be fed within 12 to 24 hours after they are out of their shells.

    They can be cooked with broken corn, millet, broken rice, broken wheat, etc., and boiled until they reach eight maturity, which is beneficial to the digestion of the chicks.

    Feed 6-8 times a day and night for 1~3 days of age, 4~5 times a day after 4 days of age, and 1 time at night. Gradually change the feed to the chicks.

5.Adjust Temperature and Humidity

    The suitable temperature for raising chicks is: 30°C~329C at 1 week of age, 28°C~30°C at 2 weeks of age, 25°C~28°C at 3 weeks of age, 22°C~25 at 4 weeks of age °C, and then lower it by 1.5°C~2°C every week, until the room temperature humidity is maintained at 60%~65% within 1 week of age, and 50%~60% is appropriate after 1 week.

    If the chicken house is too wet, you can put some quicklime in a cloth bag to absorb moisture; if it is too dry, you can put a basin of water on the stove to increase the indoor humidity through the evaporation of water.

Temperature and humidity comparison table：

7.Scientific llumination

    The reasonable light time is: 0~3 days of age 24 hours, 4~14 days of age 16-19 hours, after 15 days of age, use natural light. The light intensity is per 15 square meters of chicken house in the first week, with a 40W light bulb suspended at a height of 2 meters, and it is enough to switch to a 25W light bulb from the second week.

8.Epidemic Prevention

    An unsanitary and humid environment is prone to cause chicken diseases, especially pullorum and coccidiosis. The chicken house should be thoroughly disinfected regularly, kept dry and clean, bedding should be changed frequently, drinking water should be clean, and feed should be fresh.

    Chicks were injected with 0.2 ml of freeze-dried Marek’s disease turkey herpes virus vaccine for the first immunization. Add 5% glucose, 0.1% vitamins, penicillin and streptomycin in drinking water. Add 0.02% furazolidine to drinking water for 2~7 days old, and mix 0.1% chloramphenicol in feed.

    At the age of 5 to 7 days, use Newcastle disease II or IV vaccines to instill the eyes and nose according to the prescribed dose.

    Marek's vaccine was subcutaneously injected at 14 days of age for the second immunization.The bursitis vaccine was injected at 18 days of age.

    At the age of 30 days, a second immunization was carried out with Newcastle Disease II or IV vaccine. If sick chickens are found, they should be isolated and treated in time, and dead chickens should be burned or buried deep away from the chicken coop.

Epidemic prevention advice：

Note: Sick chickens should be isolated in time, and dead chickens should be kept away from the chicken coop and buried deep.

9.Fresh Air

    Strengthen the ventilation of the brooding room and keep the air in the house fresh. Ventilation in the house can be carried out when the sun is full at noon. The opening degree of the doors and windows is half open from small to large.

    Do not open the doors and windows suddenly, let the cold wind blow directly, and make the room temperature suddenly drop.

10.Meticu lous Management

    It is necessary to observe the flock frequently and grasp the dynamics of the flock. Reduce stress factors, strictly prevent snakes and rats from entering the chicken house; check the house temperature at any time, if the temperature is too low, the chicks will get together and crushed; if the chicks are pecking anus, apply purple potion on the pecking place; 7~11 days old should be timely Cut off the beak, cut off the chicks with a beak cutter. 1/2 of the upper beak and 1/3 of the lower beak, add appropriate amount of vitamin K3 and antibiotics to the feed two days before cutting the beak to prevent bleeding and slow down the stress response of beak cutting.

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