How to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of chicken seedlings

Generally, the selection of newborn chicks can be based on the following performance: blind, paralyzed, disabled, deformed chicks and chicks that are too small and weak should be culled and eliminated. According to the characteristics of each variety, strict selection is carried out.

Experienced breeders can generally distinguish the strength of chicks by "seeing, touching and listening" mainly according to the time when chicks are hatched and the appearance of "fat, hair and spine".

After selection, the chickens were raised in groups according to their respective advantages and disadvantages. It is advisable to have 300 ~500 animals in each group, generally not exceeding 1000 animals. If the group is too large, it is easy to trample on each other. In conditional chicken farms, chicks are hatched, dried, identified by sex, and then raised in groups of males and females. In this way, we can overcome the phenomenon of bullying the weak, bullying the big with the small, bullying the weak with the strong, and feed the required diet according to the different conditions of each flock, which is also convenient for different treatment in management, thus laying a good foundation for cultivating well-developed healthy flocks. Although newborn chicks have been selected and raised by groups, there will still be individuals of different strengths and sizes in the future. Therefore, in the process of brooding and feeding, it is necessary to identify and group, and pick out weak individuals to feed alone at any time.