Vitamins for chickens - what are needed
Whether to give chickens vitamins
To ensure that the chickens feel comfortable, do not get sick, carry eggs well and give healthy offspring, chickens should receive the necessary amount of vitamins. For active life and resistance of birds to infectious diseases of vitamins, a lot is needed, and not only such well-known as D and C. Significant vitamins are actually much larger, and each is responsible for certain processes in the body.
Vitamin A is required for chickens from the first days of life, it promotes growth and normal metabolism. Adult chickens, when receiving this vitamin, carry large eggs with bright yellow yolks.
If the yolk has turned pale, it is worth to sound the alarm and fill up the diet with vitamin A. If this vitamin is lacking, the chickens often get sick, their skin and the cornea of the eyes become dry. Carotene, which in the body turns into vitamin A, is found in carrots, clover, alfalfa, fish oil, egg yolk.
Vitamin D - An indispensable tool for the formation of bone tissue. This vitamin helps to avoid such a terrible bird disease as rickets. A clear sign of a lack of vitamin D is that the eggshell is softened or the eggs are completely empty. This vitamin is synthesized during bird walks in the sun, but in winter, ultraviolet radiation is not enough for it. Therefore, the chickens are mixed with ultraviolet irradiated yeast and hay flour.
Vitamin E increases immunity in chickens, normalizes the functions of the nervous and muscle tissues.
This vitamin also affects productivity: with its lack of eggs lay unfertilized eggs, and in cocks sterility develops. Contained in the germs of germinated wheat seeds, corn, peas, eggs, milk, vegetable oils.
Group vitamins B is very extensive - it's B1,AT2,AT6 and B12.
And all are very important for the full work of the endocrine gland, digestive system, mucous membranes. The lack of these vitamins can cause damage to the muscles, underdevelopment of claws and feathers, skin diseases, low hatchery. Sources of vitamins of this group are cottage cheese, seeds of beans and cereals, bran, fish meal.
It is understandable to grow a healthy bird, vitamins are needed, some of them must be purchased at the pharmacy, you can prepare separate ones yourself.
A wonderful vitamin mixture without much expense is obtained from dried nettles, eggshells, lime and sand. All components must be ground into powder, poured into dishes and put in a chicken coop. See for yourself, with what pleasure and speed of the chickens all this will be removed. Baking yeast is also good, they contain vitamin B, just mix 5 grams of yeast into the feed.
It is worth adding to vegetable fodder waste, boiled potatoes, grated carrots and beets, tops, cabbage leaves - these are also excellent sources of vitamins.
For chickens, you can buy regular fish oil, designed for children, it contains vitamins A, B and D. Fish oil is added to the grain and is given every three days.
Of course, a huge plus is considered when the chickens get all the vitamins in the right amount with food, but it does not always happen. Therefore, there are ready-made complexes of vitamins, which can be purchased at specialized pharmacies or shops and given to the bird by instructions.
Pay more attention to the health of your chickens, take good care of them, and always on your table will be plenty of eggs and poultry meat.
Author К.М. Perzeva
On a note:
Why hens peck eggs
Many owners complain that the hens are eating eggs. But I do not know such an adversity at all. And in this helps green onions, which I crumble and add to the mesh. It is also good to add Kalina or mountain ash.
This is a real storehouse of vitamins, which
easy to grow on the site. And the health of poultry with such additives will be excellent.
I dry the berries in the autumn.
And in winter I put them in a saucepan, steaming it with water. There I add dried herbs. Minutes 15 steamed, after which I cool and filter. Then it remains to stretch everything, and the expressed mash can be diluted with expressed water. This cake is useful for any poultry.
A little troublesome, but the bird is always healthy.
Sunflower cake is also a good help. In summer, I must give chopped fresh! nettle. And for the winter period! I try to dry the nettle and other herbs.
OP Cherednichenko
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As soon as the egg in the incubator cracked, my neighbor immediately splits the whole shell. He says that this way the chicken will hatch faster and easier.
Is he doing the right thing?
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Normally, a healthy chicken does not need any help: after the 19-20 day of incubation it will turn on and hatch on 20-21 day. It's another matter if the incubation takes place with any irregularities. For improperly selected and illiterate incubated eggs, such assistance will be disastrous.
Here are a few reasons why a weak chicken can not hatch itself:
1. Overheating of eggs (the chick developed rapidly, but it was not properly formed);
2. cooling during incubation (delayed development with delayed excretion at 1-2 day);
3. lack of moisture (over-dried shell and bleeding under the shell film);
4. excess moisture (the conclusion of weak chicks in the film).
All these causes have an adverse effect on the fetus, depriving him of vitality and health.
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Organize the feathered paddock so that they move more. By the way, during walks, especially in summer, birds can find themselves the necessary nutritional supplements (plants, insects, etc.). If possible, make the chicken coop more spacious.
Calculate how many green feeds and nutritional supplements you usually give to your hens per day. The lack of greenery and the excess of vitamin complexes make your hens actively gain unnecessary weight.
The first week, feed the chickens in small portions, but often - 4-6 once a day. Then gradually reduce the number of feedings to the optimal rate - 2-3 times a day.
DOES NOT ALWAYS OZYREVSHIH KUR DISAPPEARED EGG, but EXACTLY SHARP REDUCES. TO THE SAME EGG OF SUCH NON-SUSPENSIONS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR THE INCUBATOR.
It is not necessary to solve the problem of obesity of chickens radically and get rid of the whole stale population - let the old birds eat meat, but put the 1-2-year-old productive layers on a diet.
Reconsider the menu of their birds - an overabundance of cereal crops (wheat, corn) or sunflower meal is the main reason for weight gain. Secondly, find out whether all the chickens have enough space.
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Wet pouches on the basis of kitchen waste and cooked potatoes give only in the morning (morning).
In the afternoon, offer your birds a mixed feed, and in the evening, treat them with whole grains (preferably wheat).
Daily feed the laying hens with grated beets, small hay. In the summer period - fresh green grass, cabbage leaves.
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To chickens carried in winter
With the onset of cold weather, the chickens stop rushing. Many take this as a given, they say, it should be so. But you can make chickens fly all winter. I'll tell you how I do it. Maybe my experience will come in handy.
Useful experience
1. Variety yeast.
To do this, 3 a handful of hops I cook well in 1 L of water over low heat for two hours. Turn off the heat and pour 2 glass of sugar and 2 glass of flour. Dilute with warm water to a volume of 5 l. I put in a warm place, from time to time I stir.
As soon as the yeast has played properly (faded), I put them in the porch or on the porch. In the morning I take a glass of cooked yeast and pour out a half-bucket of warm water. I'm adding 1 art. a spoonful of salt and a mash of derti.
I serve this dish to the chickens for breakfast and I will also add dry grain for the whole day.
2. I'm raising the grain.
In the morning I pour half a bucket of grain with warm water. In the afternoon I pour out the water and put the bucket in the heat. For a day, the germ grows sprouts of length 1-2 mm. More and do not. This dish I give chickens for lunch 2-3 times a week.
3. I grow the greens.
Soaked grain pour on 2 art. spoons in the cups of sour cream. For a week, green leaves grow 5-7 in height. I shake out the cups in a bucket of food and bring the chickens.
Such a green supplement they get from me once in 10 days.
Thanks to these simple tricks my chickens go well all winter.
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and not easier in the garden to grow from autumn the erysipelas all winter and karm
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I'll tell you how to grow the greenery of chickens in winter. This is very simple, since the fall of the earth and grain. The dishes for planting are the substrates into which the food is packed in the store, the size of 20x12x3,5 is cm. I fill the ground with a layer of 1,5-2 cm, scatter the wheat grains and sprinkle with the soil. Then I just water, it's better to rain or melt water. For 10 days, a juicy green grass grows to a height of up to 12 cm, it is removed from the mold easily, only pulled the bun and already pulled out with roots and earth. Every day I take out hens on two substrates (on 20 chickens). A good addition to the winter diet. Therefore, the yolks of our chickens do not pale even in winter. At home, I constantly grow about 20 forms with wheat. And what a beauty from juicy, bright greenery, when the window is already late autumn!
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In order to teach chickens to sweep in the allotted places, I lay the so-called podkladnu on the litter, or, as we say, a podkden (false egg), which indicates to the bird that it is necessary to rush here. The situation was as follows: from the raw egg, gently, through a small hole, released the contents. Instead, he poured a diluted water with alabaster, stirred with a thin stick for even distribution inside. I waited until the contents hardened, broke the shell and got a fake egg.
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I know from my own experience that if the young chickens are fed earthworms, then it will grow like yeast, and less. After all, the worm is primarily a source of protein. In addition, the source is free, because if you have few chickens, then for their feeding worms can be planted directly on the site. Nothing complicated: dig a hole depth of 1 m and a width of up to 1,5 m. At the bottom of the layer 15-20 cm we put any manure, sprinkled with sawdust or mowed grass,
also twenty centimeters. The third layer, of the same thickness as the previous two, consists of a fertile soil. We arrange such a "layered pie" once again and at the finish on top of the obtained substrate we scatter the dung worms, 20-50 pieces per 1 square. m is enough. A pit with worms must be moistened. A month later the pit can be excavated and collected worms for the chickens for joy!
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