Lo and behold, this is the famous guifei chicken. It is famous for its peculiar appearance.
In the beginning, the noble concubine chicken was not called this name, it was called the noblewoman chicken, which was named after the feather hat that resembled the feathered hat often used by European noblewomen.
Later, it spread to China, because the word "guifei" in our country was more noble and closer to the ancient Chinese culture, and it was called "guifei chicken" by the Chinese people.
This is not just a change in the name, the noble concubine chicken, but not a vain name, it is a veritable poultry "noble", really a very rare, precious bird.
Its appearance, let alone its appearance, is luxurious, elegant, beautiful, and beautiful. The head is draped in a phoenix crown, the beauty of the heavens, the body is full of flowers and feathers, and the noble is born from the appearance. It is said that it was once "monopolized" by the British royal family, exclusively for the palace to watch, and ordered that the common people were forbidden to breed it.
Its intrinsic qualities are even more commendable.
Guifei chicken is an excellent delicacy, nourishing, delicious, nutritious, the meat is delicious, tender, fragrant but not greasy, excellent flavor, and unique game.
In terms of nutritional composition, guifei chicken is rich in 17 kinds of amino acids and more than 10 kinds of trace elements and rich vitamins needed by the human body. In particular, the content of selenium and zinc, which we recognize as an anti-cancer element, is five times that of ordinary poultry, and is an extremely ideal health care poultry food that is extremely suitable for medicine and food.
It is praised as the "life-saving meat" and "nootropic meat" of the new era, and is also known as "beauty meat".
Its meat quality, with the smooth and tender flavor of rural free-range chicken, and a quality of wild game, is praised by the "foodies" in the food industry as "the best among poultry". I have tasted it many times with friends in the eating industry, and I feel that it is really four words:
Unusual!
In the same way, its advantages and values are placed here, so the economic benefits of breeding noble concubine chickens are not to mention.
Visiting the farmers of guifei chickens, the benefits are not generally good.
So, guifei chicken is such a good breed, is it good to breed? The answer is that it is easy to raise, and its breeding is no different from the general breeding method of ordinary chickens, and even in some ways, it is simpler than ordinary chickens.
Below, let's take a look at some knowledge about the breeding of guifei chickens.
First, the life habits of the noble concubine chicken
1) Origin of the noble concubine chicken
Guifei chicken was first produced in the United Kingdom, by the Royal Academy of Sciences from the British folk chicken improvement and breeding, in Europe belongs to the special poultry breed, is a set of food, nourishment, health, ornamental in one of the precious poultry species. Because of its outstanding characteristics, it soon became popular in Europe.
China was introduced in the 1990s and took the lead in breeding in some southern regions such as Guangdong.
Guifei chicken with its unique characteristics, quickly by people's love, its peculiar appearance, gorgeous feathers, petite and exquisite posture, and the form of walking, let people can't help but love; more because of its tender and refreshing meat, rich and delicious nutrition, and meat aroma, thin skin, low fat content, but also has the health care effects of replenishing qi and blood, nourishing face, longevity and longevity, etc., it has been sought after and liked by consumers.
In particular, its listed weight is very suitable for our average small family, eight or nine two to one pound or so, but also let diners love it.
2) Characteristics of the guifei chicken
Regarding the breeding of this chicken, it can be said that if you raise ordinary chickens, you will definitely be able to raise a good guifei chicken.
But compared with ordinary chickens, guifei chickens also have their own unique characteristics.
A, Guifei chicken is stronger than ordinary chickens in terms of tolerance to rough feeding and disease resistance, but it is more sensitive to changes in the external environment than ordinary chickens.
B, the noble concubine chicken is more lively, and takes off when frightened by accidents, but often flies low on the ground. Therefore, there should be a sports field in the breeding, and the purse seine must be set up.
C, the noble concubine chicken is more gregarious and is not prone to fighting. To move to a new group, there is a process of fighting due to reordering.
D, guifei chickens almost no nesting, a very few chickens even if the occasional nesting phenomenon, will also wake up in a short period of time, therefore, in comparison, its egg production is higher.
E, the noble concubine chicken likes to lay eggs in its own pit on the clean and fluffy sand, and is reluctant to produce in artificial egg-laying boxes.
F, guifei chicken likes to be dry and afraid of moisture, and has phototropism.
G, guifei chicken can be infected with all infectious diseases of ordinary chickens, but it is more resistant to diseases than ordinary chickens and recovers quickly. One thing to pay special attention to in breeding is that guifei chickens are more sensitive to infectious bursal disease in chickens.
H, Guifei chicken production performance is good, the diet is wide and mixed, the feed conversion rate is very high, and the growth is fast, three months can reach nine hundred to one kilogram, the feed consumption is about five kilograms.
Second, guifei chicken breeding technology
1) Build a chicken coop
Guifei chicken coop farm, generally to choose dry, sunny, leeward slope, the ground is gentle slope is appropriate.
You can use old vacant houses, vacant homesteads, and existing chicken coops. Strict disinfection measures should be carried out before use.
The chicken coop floor, preferably the cement floor, is conducive to disinfection and epidemic prevention and feces clearance. There should be no sports field in front of the chicken coop, the ground should be paved with fine sand, and anti-escape nets should be set up.
It is also necessary to set up a sand bath for its sand bath.
Noble concubine chickens can also be stocked, orchards, woodlands, surrounding purse seines, breeding, but should pay attention to the stocking density, not too large, generally per square meter of stocking about five is the best.
2) Scientific breeding, careful management
chicks:
After the chicks are placed in the brooding room, they are first given clean and disinfected drinking water, and the feeding should not be too early and too urgent. To use semi-dry and semi-wet material, feed it for two to three days first, feed the chicken flower material after three days, switch to chicken feed after half a month to fifty days, and change to medium chicken feed after two months, which can be fed with broiler feed. Breeders are fed according to the breeding stock recipe.
It should be noted that in the process of changing the feed, it must be gradually changed, two-thirds of the old material is added to one-third of the new material on the first day, two-thirds of the new material is added on the second day, and the new material is changed in three to four days, so that the chicken has an adaptation process.
Like ordinary chickens, the chicken chicks have poor disease resistance and cold resistance, so the chick coop requires strong thermal insulation ability, moderate light and good ventilation.
Medium Chicken:
The noble chicken is from two months old to five months old for the middle chicken stage.
If it is a commercial chicken, it can be listed for sale at the age of 90 to 120 days.
Commercial chickens, from 60 to 120 days old, can be fed all day, generally allowing them to eat freely.
The rearing density is preferably 8 to 10 per square meter. Too dense is not good for the prevention and control of chicken disease.
Adult chickens, breeders:
The noble concubine chicken is raised to more than 120 days old, which is an adult chicken, reaches sexual maturity, and the hen begins to lay eggs.
If it is not used for seeding, all of them will be sold on the market, and if it is reserved for seed use, it is necessary to select seeds for secondary purposes.
Select those healthy and disease-free reserve chickens that are most in line with the physical characteristics of this chicken to be reserved as breeders, and the eliminated chickens are sold again.
The weight of the rooster must reach three pounds, the weight of the hen must reach two and a half pounds, and the ratio of male to female is one to three to four to select breeders.
Breeding chickens in the feeding, is to take feeding measures, can not be free to eat, in order to prevent overweight, affect the production performance.
Feed must also be changed to breed chicken feed recipe. The diet requires 18 percent coarse egg quality.
Laying hens consume about 100 to 120 grams of food per day.
The feeding density can be about four per square meter.
Light is required to be no less than fifteen hours a day, less than artificial light, every fifteen square meters can be added a forty-watt bulb, the height of about two meters.
To increase fertilization rates, vitamin E can be added to the formula feed and five mg of VE per kilogram.
Third, the prevention and control of diseases in guifei chickens
Although the guifei chicken is very resistant to diseases, there are generally few infectious diseases. However, because the infectious diseases of general domestic chickens will also be transmitted to them, and will cause epidemic epidemics, therefore, when breeding guifei chickens, it is also necessary to do targeted epidemic prevention and control measures according to the characteristics of the local common chicken epidemic.
The general routine epidemic prevention process is as follows:
1) One day old (within twenty-four hours of coming out of the shell), inject Malik's disease vaccine on the outer thigh of the chicks.
2) Five-day-old, drip (eye drops, nose drops can be) chicken Newcastle disease will be the vaccine.
3) Eighteen to twenty-one days old drinking contagious cystic disease attenuated vaccine.
4) Twenty-five to thirty days old, repeat instillation of chicken Newcastle disease l vaccine.
5) Reserve chickens and breeding chickens, 50-day-old injection chicken Newcastle disease 丨 series vaccine 0, 5 ml / only, 135 days old intramuscular injection cystic disease inactivated seedling adjuvant vaccine.
6) Breeding chickens, during the annual remission period, a muscle injection of chicken Newcastle disease vaccine is carried out.
7) Chicks are one to seven days old, fluoropic acid 0.01%, chloramphenicol powder or dysentery 0.02% to 0.04% to prevent dysentery bacillus disease.
8) From three to twenty-five years old, gram ball powder, compound ampheraline and ball net can be used alternately to prevent and control chicken coccidiosis.