Under the double attack of high temperature and rainstorm, the weather is unpredictable. People can add or subtract clothes, turn on air conditioning and drink cold drinks, while chickens can only rely on human assistance. Today, let’s talk about the key points that should be paid attention to when raising chickens in rainy season and high temperature!

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Heatstroke prevention and cooling

In summer, the hot weather and the decrease of feed intake affect the laying performance and egg production rate of laying hens, which directly affect the breeding efficiency of chicken farms. The following introduces several methods of summer chicken heatstroke prevention, for your reference.

1. Greening and cooling: outside a certain distance from the henhouse, climbing tigers and other vines are planted around to climb the walls and roofs of the henhouse, which can not only block the strong sunlight, but also reduce the indoor temperature due to the air flow between the leaves and the walls.

2.Water curtain cooling: water curtain cooling is the use of fan negative pressure system with water curtain, artificial reproduction of natural water evaporation cooling this physical process, can make the air in the henhouse fresh, temperature appropriate. However, the cost of chicken house with water curtain is higher.

3. Fan cooling: install a certain number of fans at a certain distance in the henhouse. When the temperature in the henhouse rises, turn on the fan, but the noise is loud, but it will cause chicken stress.

4, spray cooling: spray cooling in the chicken house spray cooling effect is obvious, but easy to increase humidity, in high temperature and high humidity is not suitable.

5. Heat insulation layer cooling: enhance the heat insulation ability of roof and wall, reduce the solar radiation heat into the house; Set up a sunshade or sunshade outside the window to prevent direct sunlight on the chickens.

6. Improve the environment inside and outside the henhouse to cool down: the faeces in the henhouse should be removed every day to reduce the heat production of faeces in the henhouse; Improve ventilation conditions, increase the area of vent and roof skylight; It can reduce the radiation heat, absorb carbon dioxide, reduce the dust density and purify the air inside and outside the chicken house.

7.Medicine cooling: Vitamin C is the best medicine for heatstroke prevention, and it is recommended to double the dosage in summer. Rainstorm and dampness.

Create dryness

Chicken is afraid of dampness and likes to live in a dry environment. In rainy season, due to high air humidity and less ventilation, it is easier to cause mildew in feed and bedding materials, which is conducive to the reproduction of a variety of pathogenic bacteria and makes chickens sick. Therefore, feeding management should be particularly careful. In general, we must pay attention to the following points:

1. Timely replacement of bedding material: continuous rainy days make the bedding material damp and moldy, which can easily induce aspergillosis in chickens.

2.In rainy days, the humidity in the henhouse is relatively high, and the air is dirty. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the ventilation, and constantly use the exhaust fan to discharge the dirty and harmful gas and saturated water gas in the henhouse in time.

3. Feed less and feed more frequently, try to finish the feed at the same time, so as not to leave the feed in the trough and be polluted by mud and rain, and remove the leftover materials in time, so as to ensure the cleanliness and prevent the disease from entering through the mouth.

4. If the amount of drinking water is too large, it is easy to cause enteritis and chicken thinning, and then continuously increase the humidity in the henhouse, so that the disease spread. Therefore, it is necessary to control the amount of drinking water for chickens in rainy season, and timely discharge the rainwater deposited on the sports ground, so as to avoid the infection of chickens after drinking dirty water.

5. Do a good job in cleaning and disinfection. In rainy weather, a variety of bacteria and viruses are easy to breed and multiply in humid environment, so it is necessary to strengthen disinfection and sterilization. Generally, we do not use spray disinfection in humid weather, because this will aggravate the humidity inside the henhouse. The right thing to do is to sprinkle some ashes or quicklime onto the ground and put a clean mat on it.

6. Enteritis, coccidiosis, aspergillosis and stress disease are the key points of chicken disease control. The methods are as follows: adding multi-dimensional element properly in the feed can enhance the resistance of chicken to disease and improve the anti stress ability of chicken. Anticoccidial drugs are often added to the diet to prevent intestinal parasitic diseases, but the same drug should not be taken for more than five or six days.

7.More attention should be paid to roof leakage prevention and flood control and drainage to avoid unnecessary losses caused by heavy rain.

Five key points of livestock management after rain

After heavy rain in summer, the immunity of livestock and poultry will decline. If we do not pay attention to management and prevention, the mortality rate of livestock will be greatly increased.

1. After rain proof, mosquito bites, livestock and poultry after mosquito bites are prone to infectious diseases, such as cow scorch worm disease, swine encephalitis B, chicken white crown disease, etc. It is suggested that weeds should be removed in time and herbicides should be sprayed; The doors and windows of breeding house should be nailed with gauze net to avoid mosquitoes and wild birds flying into the house; Insecticides were added to the feed and sprayed in the places with more mosquitoes and flies.

2. Keep the house clean. The feces should be cleaned up in time. The house can be disinfected regularly with 5% bleaching powder, 3% Baidusha, caustic soda and peracetic acid. The food trough and sink should be cleaned and disinfected frequently to keep the inside clean. Increase the frequency of chicken spray disinfection.

3. After the heavy rain, the farm area and the surrounding of the breeding house should be drained in time, the breeding house should open the door and windows, and mechanical ventilation and other measures should be taken.

4. Strengthen feeding management. Improve the nutritional composition of feed, feed more feed with high protein, vitamin and mineral content; Pay attention to drinking enough to enhance the body resistance; Avoid mildew and deterioration of feed.

5. According to the designed immune program and preventive drug program, timely prevention and treatment. In addition, anti heat stress drugs were added.