Protective measures for broiler breeding in hot weather!

May 11, 2021

In summer, if overheated broilers are very prone to heat stress, in order to avoid this phenomenon, farmers can take the following measures to protect them.

I. Improve the production environment and reduce the temperature in the house

1. Reasonably design the chicken house: When building a new broiler farm, you can consider thickening the roof of the house and thickening the wall for heat insulation in summer and winter. Ensure that the temperature can be lowered in summer and raised in winter.

2. Whitening the walls: Paint the walls and roof of the chicken house white with white paint or 6% lime milk to increase reflection and reduce the temperature of the house.

3. Increase ventilation: install wet curtains to cool down and implement longitudinal ventilation; ensure good ventilation in the chicken house. Ventilation at night cannot be ignored.

4. Create shading and cooling conditions: set up an awning or hang a semi-transparent black curtain on the window of the chicken house. At the same time, do a good job of greening in the chicken farm area.

5. Spray cooling: install a spray device on the top of the chicken coop to cool down by spraying. At the same time, the effect of turning on the fan is better.

II. Strengthen daily feeding and management measures

1. Reduce the stocking density: reduce the stocking density according to the differences in species to ensure that there is only enough space for the chickens. Weed out sick, disabled and weak chickens in time.

2. Supply enough cool drinking water: In summer, broiler chickens must be supplied with sufficient cool drinking water to ensure sufficient drinking water location, and appropriate anti-heat stress and heat-relieving drugs can be added to the drinking water. Pay attention to burying drinking water pipes underground. Regularly check whether the drinking nipple is blocked, and flush the water supply system in the chicken house.

3. Adjust the feeding frequency and feeding time: the feeding frequency can be adjusted in the hot season, and the feeding should be arranged at the coolest time, and pay attention to the uniformity.

4. Pay close attention to the mildew and oxidation of feed ingredients, and do not feed mildew or spoiled feed. Add mildew-removing drugs to feed regularly.

5. Maintain environmental sanitation in the house: clean chicken manure in time, and chicken farms that use a manure scraper to scrape manure need to scrape manure 1 to 2 times more than usual.

6. Eliminate various stress factors: the expansion plan of broilers, the time of broiler transportation, and the time of vaccination, should try to avoid man-made and natural stress.

3. Emergency rescue of chicken heat stress syndrome When individual chickens or chicken flocks develop symptoms of heat stress syndrome, emergency rescue measures should be taken.

1. For chickens with slight heatstroke, they should immediately turn on the spray to cool down, and provide the chickens with plenty of cool drinking water and appropriate amount of heat-clearing and heat-relieving Chinese herbs and vitamin C.

2. Drug treatment: According to the severity of the symptoms of the chickens, appropriate anti-heat stress drugs or Chinese herbal medicines should be used.