It is very useful to pay attention to the following points in the correct feeding of ostrich chicks, so please pay attention:
– A very important factor in resistance and continuity, which you can see its effect in the long term, is the issue of nutrition.
– The amount of food consumed depends on the amount of energy in the diet and the weight of the bird.
When chickens want to break the egg shell and get out of it, they insert the yolk sac into the abdominal area through the navel. The weight of the chicken is completely normal.
– Chickens consume 120 grams of feed at this time (up to one month old).
– When the chickens are on their feet, they are instinctively drawn to food, but at this time you must carefully monitor them because they may die from hunger or eating other small objects and accumulating in their stomachs.
– You can use it on mat or sack or cement environment to give seeds to chickens.
– Respecting the hygiene of the environment and food container should be a priority, since the chickens may eat their own feces or their parents’ feces in the early days, it is better to use metal nets for seeding.
– The food ration at this time is mostly energy and protein (cereals and soybeans).
Chickens may not want to eat seeds at first. To stimulate their appetite, you can use long feedings or using colors, such as green, to encourage them to eat.
– You can also help by bringing some older chicks next to the newly born chicks to stimulate them to eat more seeds.
Ostrich chicks often use food or seeds that are very floury or wet.
– The number of meals is recommended 2 times a day, but the amount of food should be such that they are busy eating for 2 hours.
– It is recommended to give pebbles to chickens’ meals from the third week onwards along with seeds (for better digestion of food and seeds to be eaten and better mechanical digestion of food in pebbles).
-Try not to give them large stones, it may cause many problems in digestion.
Giving vitamins to the chickens in the first few weeks is very important. For this purpose, you pour the vitamins in water and give them to the chickens. By eating and absorbing them in the body, it increases the resistance of the chickens against diseases.
– During the first few weeks of the chicks’ life, do not give them diets with more than 0.5 crude fiber.
– The ability of chickens to digest fat is very low, so they should not be given more than 0.5% of fat.
Clean and disinfect the environment after every meal.
– If there is more than the amount of previous feed left in the granary or manger, new feed should not be poured on them and the mangers should be cleaned after each meal.
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