Day old chick maintenance early phase laying hens

Various preparations cage should be done by every farmer to welcome the DOC, are as follows:

    Washing cage. Washing cage means cleaning the entire room enclosures, walls, ceilings and all existing equipment. Efforts to clean a cage is preceded by washing, and then sterilize the cage, and in the end with cage rest. Thus, cage cage cage and all equipment that has been cleaned, not directly charged with DOC, but must rest first, at least for 21 days. Before the DOC arrived, cages and equipment should be sprayed once again with anti-germ (disinfectants)

    Installation limiting the broodstock. As with the protective barrier in a parent, is very important for the chicks are kept in the early days. Sebabdengan barrier, the chicks will not move too far left breeders, places to eat da water. Because chicks still require additional heat from the outside, and besides, jangkauanya to recognize the environment is still very limited. Some of the important things that need to be prepared in the installation of barrier covering materials and sizes are used. Materials can be derived from zinc, hardboard, plywood, boards or other materials.

Limiting size for breeding as follows:

    Circular barrier, made of zinc. This barrier has a height of 45 cm, diameter 200cm, and able to accommodate 500 DOC. The diameters of 300 cm width 120 cm can accommodate 750-1000 DOC tail.
    Rectangular barrier, made of tripllek or board. This barrier has a height of 60 cm, length 240 cm, width 120 cm, and is able to accommodate 250 tail DOC.

Circular barrier, once a week should be widened while the rectangular, diperjarang capacity. Both of these are done with the same purpose, namely to ease sires space.

    Provision and delivery of litter. After limiting breeders installed, the floor strewn with litter immediately evenly. In the first week of DOC was raised, litter covered with as many as 7 layers of newspaper. Each day, the base newspaper was cleaned by taking the top layer of paper. This kind of work takes place during the 7 days, so that on the eighth day, the litter is not closed anymore. Closing litter DOC aims to not peck chaff, because at that time the DOC not know the food is good. Litter is a floor mat consisting of materials that can absorb water, it is not easy being dense and lumpy. Litter material is generally in the form of sawdust, sand, finely chopped straw or other types of materials.

    Preparation heater. For 21 days the eggs incubated mother, the egg will get hot from the parent body about 41 degrees Celsius. However, after the eggs hatch in the form of DOC, the DOC must face a lower temperature, which is around 29 degrees Celsius, even in the morning is less than 27 degrees celcius. Therefore, ensuring comfort DOC separately newly hatched required additional temperature, so the temperature is not much different from the parent. Temperature in the form of additional heating sources from outside the so-called breeding. Source or heater serves as a parent. Heater is only used in the early maintenance