Many poultry farmers are concerned with the question of how to properly equip a place for keeping broilers or ducklings. After all, all hygienic components depend on this. Everyone knows that bird droppings have a nasty pungent odor. It is only necessary to neglect once the cleaning of the territory, as about what you keep on your site home birds, and residents of the entire street, and all passers-by will know. The presence of an unpleasant odor depends on how to feed broiler chickens and ducks.
At first, young animals can be left at home, in an ordinary box from under, for example, a TV. As a litter it is best to take sawdust. They absorb moisture and odor and are easily collected during replacement. Chicks in such conditions feel comfortable. Sawdust can be requested at any sawmill. They are given free of charge, and they even say thank you if you take it out at your own expense. Subject to sanitary conditions, babies will not have any “diarrhea”, the purity of the birdhouse depends on this to a greater extent.
When the chicks grow up and get stronger, they are transferred to a prepared place of residence. In the house, a small area can be fenced off with a fine mesh or chipboard panels. You need to do this as carefully as possible so that the rats or cats do not get to the "babies". On the floor you need to pour a good layer of litter: sawdust, straw or hay. For chickens, narrow special feeders and drinking bowls are installed - self-pouring. For the first time, a heater or a red heat lamp must be equipped.
Kids - ducklings feeding in small feeders do not like. They need mobile food. You need to pour food from a height to create the appearance of moving insects. A wooden or metal tray is suitable as a feeder.
For all poultry livestock in different corners of the house should be equipped with feeding facilities with sand, clay, ash, chalk, shell. Without these supplements, babies will grow frail. Vetapacks sell special vitamins for birds. Some poultry farmers overestimate doses of supplements and vitamin preparations; in fact, this cannot be done. Excess elements can cause indigestion, and even death.
Duck diet is slightly different from chicken nutrition. Many without knowing than to feed the little ducklings, begin to give grass, cottage cheese, yogurt from the first day of life. This is strictly contraindicated. For the first three days, it is better to use only a steep egg yolk mixed with finely ground corn as feed. You can not give kids raw and contaminated water. In order to prevent intestinal diseases, it is recommended to replace water twice a week with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. In order for the bird house to be always clean and dry, it is necessary to constantly change the litter, and to carry out hygienic treatment of feeders and cage walls.