For chicken farmers, the feeding and management of chicken flocks in hot summer is more troublesome, because chicken flocks always have various problems in hot weather, so how much water should chickens feed in summer? Feed warm water or cold water?
1. Provide drinking water according to the amount of drinking water.
1. Increment by week age:
1-6 weeks old chicks, 20-100 ml per chicken per day; 7-12-week-old young chickens 100-200 ml; non-laying hens 200-230 ml; laying hens 230-300 ml.
2. Determined according to the proportion of feed intake:
Under normal temperature (about 20°C), the amount of drinking water is 2 times the amount of feed intake; in the environment of high temperature (above 33°C), the amount of drinking water is 5 times that of the amount of feed intake. 3. Determined according to the egg production rate: when the egg production rate is 50%, the water requirement of each laying hen is 170 ml per chicken per day; after the egg production rate increases by 10%, the water intake will increase correspondingly by 12 ml.
The advantages are: avoid excessive drinking of chickens and cause watery diarrhea; supply chickens with drinking water just right, which not only ensures the physiological needs and production performance of chickens for water, but also does not waste drinking water; reduces the cost of raising chickens.
2. Supply cold water according to the temperature section.
There are many benefits to drinking cold water for chickens in summer, which has become the consensus of chicken farmers. According to the experience summed up by some chicken farmers, when the weather is hot in summer, it is very effective to drink cool drinking water at 8-12°C for broilers; when broilers drink cold water at 8-12°C, they are sober and lively, their feed intake increases, and feed The conversion rate is significantly improved, and there is a promotion of weight gain.
Post time: Aug-26-2022