Why do free-range hens have a few cocks?

Put some cocks on the hens. The cocks will take good care of the hens and keep order. In addition, the rooster can also play a sexual induction role in hens, promote the secretion of estrogen by hens, and improve the egg production of hens. Especially for those chicks who haven't laid eggs and hens with unstable eggs, it can promote their eggs and increase their egg production.

Only keep hens without cocks, hens will have no courage to fight, and it is easy to get into trouble. Because this free-range chicken actually restored part of the original state of the chicken. In the past, many hens were led by a rooster. Without a rooster, hens will lack backbone.

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Key points of hen feeding:

Usually, the period from 18 to the laying rate of 5% is called pre-laying. In fact, this period is a short adjustment period, no matter from the aspects of feeding and management. Generally, hens should close their cages before 16~ 17 weeks, so that they can adapt to the environment before opening them. Because hens must have basic physiological and environmental conditions at the beginning of production, the calcium in the diet should be increased from 1% to more than 2.4%, and the illumination time should not be less than 12h.

However, the growth and development of chickens are affected by many factors, and each batch of chickens is different due to different breeds and feeding environments. Therefore, the increasing speed of calcium content in hen diet, the increasing range of diet feed and the gradient of light extension should be adjusted according to the quality of chickens. These are all related to the weight, uniformity, timely delivery, egg production and egg weight of chickens.