Guifei chicken has strong disease resistance and wide adaptability. It can be raised in free range, in captivity or in cages. It is suitable for intensive breeding in professional chicken farms and can also be raised in free range at home. The requirements for feeding conditions are lower, and the feeding and management are basically the same as those of domestic chickens, but the survival rate and feeding rewards are higher. In order to raise royal chickens scientifically and improve the survival rate and egg production rate, the following points need to be done. Imperial chickens have no nesting ability. It is best to hatch fresh eggs within 10 days. The incubation period is 21 days. The hatching method is the same as that of domestic chickens. Technical Essentials
Lady’s Chicken, also known as Royal Fei’s Chicken, is native to the UK, France, the Netherlands and other European countries and is a famous European specialty. The lady's chicken combines ornamental, delicacies and nourishment, and is suitable for both ornamental and meat purposes. Now it is being promoted nationwide for eggs and seedlings by Shanghai Jiannong Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Service Co., Ltd. and other units. The noble lady chicken has become a representative of a new breed of special poultry. The supply of seedlings in the domestic market exceeds the demand. The fever of noble lady chicken breeding is quietly rising in the country. The development of noble lady chicken breeding has a very attractive prospect.
l. Premises and equipment. Breeding noble chickens is much easier than other special birds and poultry. The house should be located in a north-south location with sufficient water and electricity, a quiet environment, convenient transportation, and a dry leeward location. Large-scale breeding farms can refer to domestic chicken farms. And equipped with incubator and hatcher. Domestic or professional households can use idle buildings to modify them according to local conditions, and only after strict disinfection can they be introduced and raised. Factory buildings with brick and tile structures, bamboo sheds or plastic sheds can be used if conditions permit. Each building is 28 meters long, 6 meters wide and 3 meters high, and is divided into 3 to 4 net rooms as a sports ground. Each building can raise 500 to 600 chickens, and 800 to 1,000 medium-sized chickens. For brooding on flat ground, the brooding room can be divided into small rooms every 18 square meters, with 200 to 300 broods in each room.
2． Nutrition needs to be matched with feed. Noble chickens also require different nutritional levels at different growth stages. Detailed information on its required nutritional standards is lacking. You can use chicken pellet feed to feed chickens, and use chicken feed to feed chicks within one month of age. In order to increase the growth rate of noble chicken brooding, it is recommended to add 4 imported fish meal, 6 feed yeast or feather meal and an appropriate amount of cod liver oil, b miscellaneous water, etc. to each package of chicken feed (40 kg). Feed chickens aged 2 to 5 months with medium or large chicken feed. Laying hens can use domestic layer chicken feed or breeder chicken full-price feed. In order to obtain high yield and improve the quality of breeding eggs, it is recommended to mix 2 imported feeds into each package (40 kg) of domestic layer chicken or breeder chicken feed. Fish meal, 5 feed yeast.
3. Incubation and brooding. Each noble chicken lays up to 150 to 180 eggs per year. The average egg weight is about 40 grams. The eggshell is white, and the average longitudinal and transverse diameters are 5.5 cm and 4.0 cm respectively. According to statistics from Shanghai Jiannong Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Technology Service Co., Ltd., the fertilization rate of noble lady chicken eggs from March to August every year is about 86 to 90%, and the hatching rate of fertilized eggs is about 90%. There are two ways to incubate noble chickens: when farmers raise noble chickens, domestic chickens can be used to incubate eggs, and 18 to 20 eggs can be hatched at one time; for large-scale breeding, electric incubators can be used for hatching, and the incubation method can refer to the domestic chicken egg incubation method. . Noble chickens are highly resistant to stress, so they are easy to brood. The survival rate of brooding is as high as over 95 at 30 days old. The average weight of chicks when hatched is about 30 grams, about 100 grams at 15 days old, and up to 300 grams at 30 days old. . Noble chickens are cold-tolerant. The suitable temperature is 32°C when they are 1 to 2 days old. After that, it can be lowered by 0.5°C every day until it is maintained at 22°C until it is de-warmed after 21 days of age. The relative humidity should be 60-65 the week before brooding, and can drop to 50-60 a week later. More than 100 birds per square meter can be raised within one week of age, and then gradually decrease. After the chicks hatch, clean drinking water and feed should be provided all day long. The feed must be fresh and fully nutritious.
4. Feeding management of medium-sized chickens and adult chickens. The period from 2 to 5 months old is called the middle chicken stage. As commercial chickens, chickens can be sold at 90 to 120 days old. As breeder chickens, chickens aged 120 to 180 days are called pullets. Commercial noble chickens should be fed open and fed all day when they are 2 to 4 months old. Feeding of replacement breeder chickens should be limited during the period of 4 to 5 months of age, about 100 grams per day. Under flat conditions, 8 to 10 animals can be raised per square meter of the house. It can be used as a feeding tube for adult chickens when they are 6 months old.
The second breeding selection is carried out half a month before the breeder is about to give birth. When the weight of the male chicken returns to 1.5 kg and the hen reaches 1.25 kg, the male to female ratio is 1:3 to 4. The breeder chickens are fed layer-laying chicken feed, and during the peak egg-laying period, they are fed higher protein diets, with crude protein reaching 18. Laying chickens consume about 100-125 grams of feed per day, and 4-5 chickens can be raised per square meter in the house. , 15 to 16 hours of light per day, the light intensity is one 40-watt bulb per 15 square meters, 2 meters above the ground. Sand is prepared in the breeding chicken house and sports ground so that the chickens can eat sand and mud freely. In order to improve the fertilization rate of hatching eggs, vitamin E can be added to the feed at a rate of 10 mg per kilogram of feed.
5. Prevention and control of chicken diseases. European noble chickens are a new breed of special poultry with strong disease resistance. They are generally less prone to infectious diseases, but domestic chicken infectious diseases can also be transmitted to noble chickens and cause epidemics. Therefore, households in various regions should conduct targeted vaccinations based on local conditions. The following introduces the conventional prevention and treatment methods: Marek's disease vaccine is injected skinally on the outside of the thigh at 1 day of age (within 24 hours after hatching), Newcastle disease II series vaccine is administered into the nose or eyes at 5 days of age; at 18 to 21 days of age, the infectious disease is contagious by drinking Cystic disease attenuated vaccine; Newcastle disease II vaccine in chickens given at 25 to 30 days of age. When the reserve breeder chickens are 50 days old and 135 days old, they are injected with 0.5 ml/bird of Newcastle disease I series vaccine respectively, and at 135 days old, the cystic disease inactivated oil adjuvant vaccine is intramuscularly injected. Adult breeder chickens are given intramuscular injection of Newcastle Disease I vaccine every year during the rest period, and then intramuscular injection of inactivated cystic disease vaccine before and after 40 weeks of age. When chicks are 1 to 7 days old, use 0.01 norfloxacin, 0.05 to 0.1 chloramphenicol powder or 0.02 to 0.04 furosemide to prevent pullorosis. From 3 to 25 years of age, compound amprolium, ball net, globule powder, and three-word coccidia powder should be used alternately to prevent coccidiosis. When chickens are usually affected by stress factors, Subu-14 or erythromycin thiocyanate can be added to the drinking water.