Why are breeding chicks often trampled to death and their necks broken?

The density of chicks has been introduced in various breeding books, generally 30 chickens per square meter, and the number of chickens is reduced as they grow up. Let's analyze why the chick was trampled to death and broke its neck.

The reason for being trampled to death is poor temperature management in the brooding room, when the temperature is low, the chicks will crowd next to the heat source to keep warm, and the chicks in the outer circle will jump up and squeeze to the middle when they are too cold, and the middle can not move, as more and more chickens press up, resulting in the innermost chick being trampled to death. In order to avoid the occurrence of such situations, the coal furnace pipe is the best heating equipment. Replace the coal stove with new coal and close the small air inlet before going to bed at night, which can maintain the temperature rise for about eight hours.

It is not trouble-free and will not cause low temperature to cause chick death.

There is a noise outside the brooding room, which causes a chick stress response.

Heap to death. In the communication with friends who breed chickens, I learned that the chickens react very much to the sound of the outside world, especially when they hear the sound of the dog barking, they all rush up and squeeze to the weak side. In this case, even if it is about two catties of chickens, it will be trampled to death by chickens.

The only solution is human intervention, which is to quickly enter the brooding room and disperse the flock after hearing the noise.

Causes of broken necks.

Chicks with their necks broken didn't happen in my chickens, but they did get bitten off. The main reason is that the protection in the brooding room is not done well, resulting in wild mice, wild cats, weasels.

When they entered, they bit off the chick's neck. When I was raising free-range chickens, chickens were looking for food outside, and once I saw a chicken about two catties on the side of the road, the head was bitten off, and the blood in the whole body was gone. There was also no trace of blood on the ground, this is the chicken that was bitten by the weasel, and the weasel sucked the blood.

If there are chickens with broken necks in the brooding room, be sure to carefully check where there are holes in the brood and fix them in time. Avoid re-victimizing the chicks.

The death of the farmed chicks is a reduction in profits for the breeding. The survival rate of chicks depends on whether the management of the brood room is in place. Managing the chickens in the brood room is half the battle.

Because chicks are very fragile and small, they are easy to be overlooked, and if they are not careful, they can be injured or even killed.

Because the chicks are very small, their balance is still very poor, and they often run around in groups, if you accidentally don't see them, it is easy to trample them or trample them to death.

I think the main reason is that chickens are single-celled animals, and they are very weak in survival when they are young.