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video with the first spring rays tend to leave the room and go out not only gardeners, but also at their part-time farmanimals and birds. In this regard, the hardworking owners, sowing seedlings of garden crops and flowers and having carried out the early pruning of the garden, go to the courtyard, because a lot of hassle in the month of March there.
Relocation of birds to
summer apartments As soon as the frosts disappear and during the day the temperature is above zero, you can free your birds from winter captivity in closed coopes and slowly transfer them to the open air:
- ducks - to pens;
- chickens and roosters - in summer enclosures.
Of course, in pens and enclosures, it is first necessary to carry out general cleaning, clearing them of debris. In addition, for chickens, you must not forget to put the nest, so as not to look for eggs anywhere. Although the first time will be exactly like this, after all, the laying hens during the winter had time to grow out of time and forget their “place”, but in time they will again begin to make layings in the right place.
In the northern regions, where subzero temperatures still hold in March, and the snow does not even think of melting, with the relocation you will have to wait until April.
It doesn’t hurt to check also if there are enough bird feeders and troughs and all available ones. If necessary, repair the fact that leaked, or build additional feeders from improvised means. The easiest option is to use the remnants of wooden boards:
- saw off or pick up the required length of the board;
- from each long edge to nail the side bars to it;
- install plugs at the edges, nailing short transverse bars:
- attach two transverse bars to the bottom to make the trough more stable and less touching the floor.
That's all, the feeder is ready. It remains to check whether the nails stick out so that the bird does not hurt, and you can pour grain.
Incubator Bookmark: How to do it
Most owners tend to breed birds themselves, because you can never be sure that the purchased chickens are completely healthy and everyone will survive, besides, poultry are usually an order of magnitude stronger. Great luck, if among the chickens, ducks, geese or turkeys are responsible mothers who take the responsibility for the new offspring. However, they usually begin to hatch eggs much later, when it is quite warm outside, but early bird young can be obtained using an incubator. In this regard, one of the main March troubles on the supply yard is collecting eggs for laying in the incubator.
poultry breeders To get the most positive result, or more simply, to hatch out of all eggs, it is necessary to responsibly approach this issue and select only eggs that are:
- free from defects( growths, spots, cracks in the shell);
- clean, with a minimum amount of dirt.
For incubation, you should take only fresh eggs that are no longer than 4 days.
Equally important is the correct tab, especially if the eggs are of different sizes. When loading an incubator, you should follow certain rules:
- Lay eggs with sharp top down.
- First lay out the largest copies.
- After 4 hours, lay eggs of medium size.
- After the same period of time lay out the rest, the smallest, eggs.
By following these recommendations, even with eggs of different sizes, it is possible to achieve the breeding of offspring at the same time as possible. And one more secret: for hatching to occur in the daytime, laying eggs in the incubator is best done in the evening, from about 5 to 7 in the evening.
Breeding the first offspring of
So, if the incubator was laid in early March, then at the end of the month( after three weeks), we can expect the first addition of young animals, in particular chickens, and this means that they will get more for another march. But even in the southern regions at this time it is still too cold, so it is important to know how to get the first offspring correctly and in what conditions it needs.
So, briefly, after the chicken hatches and dries, it should be taken out of the incubator and placed in a warm house. Ideally, it would be good to put it under the hen, but in March such a miracle rarely happens, except that the hens live in a warm hen house, so you need to prepare a box or box with high enough sides for the young. At the bottom lay a warm litter, not bad for the first time, put a heating pad. An ideal place for chickens is a complete brooder.
It is also worth taking care of the lighting, because the first month should be around the clock( 10 hours is enough for the second month of life).As for the temperature of the content, the first week should be maintained at about 30 degrees Celsius, the second can be reduced to 27 degrees, and then lower by three degrees from each week. They feed small chickens only with special food, over time adding greens, cottage cheese, eggs to the diet.
The march troubles at the service yard are a pleasant fuss, which will allow the summer resident, who is bored with work during the winter, to feel strength in his hands again and pleasant fatigue after a hard day's work. We are preparing for spring, because the season is just beginning and there are still many useful lessons ahead!
