Egg laying rate and vitamins: is there a relationship and what vitamins to give chickens? |

For hens to lay a sufficient number of eggs, it is necessary to organize a proper diet, an important part of which is vitamins for egg laying. If the hens are fed only feed, they will not get the right amount of nutrients, so poultry farmers need to know what kind of food and vitamin supplements the hens need and when.

What vitamins do chickens need to increase egg production?

Minerals and vitamins are biological catalysts of metabolism and other processes occurring in the body of any living being. Their deficiency disturbs the functionality of internal systems, which leads not only to a decrease in egg production, but also to severe pathologies leading to the death of the animal.

Water-soluble vitamins:

В1. Thiamine deficiency leads to loss of appetite, reduced egg production and further mortality. It normalizes the functionality of the endocrine and nervous system of the hen. Without thiamine, the muscular system is affected, hatchability is reduced and fertilization is impaired.

В2. Due to the lack of riboflavin, paralysis occurs, the bird does not grow, there are no eggs, because the vitamin accelerates all metabolic processes, restores tissue respiration and allows the body to more easily absorb important amino acids. And this affects fertility.

В6. Lack of adhermin reduces the egg production and hatchability of chicks. If it is enough in the diet, growth is stimulated and skin and eye diseases are prevented.

В12. Growth is impaired and anemia occurs. Cyanocobalamin is not much that a bird needs, but without it amino acids are not formed, and the protein obtained through the plant feed does not become complete. This affects embryonic development, hatchability and egg production.

Choline. Increases egg productivity. Without it, the liver is covered with fat, reduced vitality. Vitamin B4 laying hens should be administered in small doses.

Pantothenic acid. If it is deficient, tissues are affected, dermatitis occurs. It is especially important to add to the diet during the embryonic period, because without this substance hatchability decreases.

Biotin. In the absence there are skin diseases of chickens, significantly reduced hatchability of eggs. Vitamin B7 must be introduced artificially, because it is difficult to find in feed. The exceptions are oats, green beans, grass and bone, fish meal.

Folic acid. Deficiency is characterized by anemia, impaired growth, deterioration of plumage, reduced egg production. Chickens get B9 partly by microbial synthesis. When a laying hen is fed clover, alfalfa or grass meal, protein levels increase. In this case, the body needs more folic acid.

Vitamins are fat-soluble:

If vitamin A is deficient, productivity is reduced, growth is absent, and the body is weakened. You can determine A-avitaminosis by looking at the yolk of an egg – it becomes pale. The size of the eggs also decreases. Especially the lack of vitamin affects the visual organs – the cornea becomes overdry. The laying hens in this case are at risk of frequent morbidity.

If group D is not supplied, egg laying capacity decreases and rickets occur. The vitamin affects the formation of bone tissue, resulting in fragile chicken bones and loose egg shells. The main source is sunlight, so laying hens necessarily need to walk outside.

Vitamin E deficiency leads to softening of the hen’s brain sections, reduced immunity, weakened muscle tissues and nervous system disorders. With sufficient vitamin E, the hen will lay fertilized eggs.

If vitamin K is deficient, blood clotting deteriorates and internal bleeding occurs. Phylloquinone is synthesized by microorganisms and green vegetation. Deficiency rarely leads to disease, but reduces hatchability and egg production. Often K-avitaminosis occurs against the background of feeding spoiled silage and hay.

Minerals:Calcium is the most important element without which the shell and bone system become weak. It is easy to tell if it is deficient – the hen lays eggs with very thin shells and eats them.

Magnesium - its absence is characterized by a sharp decrease in egg performance and sudden death of the hen, weakness of the bone system, poor appetite.

Without phosphorus, egg shells do not form normally, rickets occurs. It helps to assimilate calcium, without which the diet of laying hens is impossible.

Lack of iodine leads to an increase in goiter, which squeezes the larynx, making breathing difficult. After studies, it was found that chickens who were administered iodine increased egg production one and a half times.

Without iron, anemia develops and layers stop laying eggs.

Lack of manganese – anatomically deformed bones, eggs become thin-walled, their number decreases.

Zinc deficiency leads to the deterioration of the bone system and disruption of plumage, against which the shell becomes thin.

Complex vitamin preparations - Golden Multivitamins

Guaranteed value of product composition analysis (content per kilogram of this product):

Vitamin A≥1500000IU Vitamin D3≥150000IU Vitamin E≥1500mg Vitamin K3≥300mg

Vitamin B1≥300mg Vitamin B2≥300mg Vitamin B6≥500mg Calcium pantothenate≥1000mg

Folic acid≥300mg D-biotin≥10mg

【Ingredients】vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin K3, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, calcium pantothenate, folic acid, D-biotin.

【Carrier】Glucose

【Moisture】Not higher than 10%

【Function and use】

1. This product is rich in 12 kinds of vitamins, which can give full play to the production potential of livestock and poultry and improve economic benefits; strengthen the addition of VA, VE, biotin, etc., to improve the anti-stress ability and production performance of livestock and poultry.

2. Enhance the function of the reproductive system, promote the development and maturity of the follicles of laying birds, increase the egg production rate, and prolong the egg production peak.

3. Improve the utilization rate of feed, reduce the ratio of feed to meat; promote the deposition of skin pigment, make the crown beard ruddy and feather bright.