Feeding vegetables to chickens can not only improve their egg production and egg weight, but also enhance their physical condition and resistance to disease. Introducing several kinds of vegetables that can be fed to chickens for farmers' reference.
1, carrots
Carrots contain a variety of rich vitamins, especially vitamin A content is the highest. Feeding carrots to chickens can significantly increase the chicken's egg production. In the chicken feed add about 15% of carrots, for the promotion of chicken metabolism, energy conversion and egg production rate have a certain effect, and can also improve the effective utilization of feed, improve feed remuneration. According to the test, in the chicken diet, add 30% of fresh carrots, can significantly improve the egg color level.
Feeding method: simply wash and chop the carrots, mix into the feed, the method is simple.
2, leek
leek dry matter containing 27.5% crude protein, metabolic energy 2.38 MK/kg, crude fiber 10.3% and a variety of trace elements, vitamins and aromatic oils, leeks fed to chickens, with increased nutrition, kill germs, appetite and other efficacies, especially on the chicken's many infectious and physiological diseases have a significant effect on the prevention of; in the season of the epidemic of chicken fever In the epidemic season of chicken plague, the preventive effect of feeding chickens with leeks is more obvious.
Feeding method: generally in the chicks on the 4th day of food, can be fed with leeks, the amount of feeding day by day to increase the maximum of 25 grams per chicken per day. Before feeding the leeks washed, dried, chopped, mixed into the feed. Chicken leeks to feed the old and young moderate, too young leeks contain more water, too old is more crude fiber, affecting the feeding effect.
3, celery
Celery is a good chicken feed. According to the test, feeding fresh celery to chickens can increase the egg production rate by 15-20%.
Feeding methods: (1) each chicken is fed celery 3 times a week, each time about 50 grams; which celery leaves alone, celery stems chopped and added to feed with the feed; (2) with 1 kilogram of celery with 1.7 kilograms of water boiled for about 15 minutes, take the meter to let the chickens drink freely. Using this method to feed chickens, the celery used must be fresh.
4, garlic
Allicin in garlic has the effect of enhancing gastric secretion, promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, and stimulating appetite, which can increase the growth and appetite of chickens, and also play a role in preventing many diseases.
Feeding method: Peel and chop the raw garlic, and mix it into the chicken feed at a rate of 3%~5%.
5, red pepper
Red pepper contains phytocides. According to tests, adding 0.3% to 0.6% paprika in the feed for laying hens can make the yolk color significantly deepen, and can improve the chicken's feed intake and resistance to cold, improve disease resistance, so that the egg production rate increased by 8% to 10%.
Feeding method: make red pepper into powder and mix it into chicken feed at the rate of 1%.