A common issue in chicken farming, known as pecking disorder, includes pecking at the vent, feathers, eggs, and toes. The causes are generally due to improper feeding management, nutritional deficiencies, or metabolic disorders.

1. Nutritional Aspect - Deficiencies in protein, amino acids, iron, and Vitamin B2 in feed can cause pecking at the vent and feather pecking. Supplements such as soybean meal, methionine, lysine, ferrous sulfate, and Vitamin B2 can be added. If the cause cannot be determined, 2% of gypsum powder can be temporarily mixed into the feed within a short period.

2. Pecking eggs is mainly caused by a lack of calcium or protein in the feed during the peak laying season for chickens, which should be supplemented with corresponding soybean meal and limestone powder.

3. Poor management – factors such as over-crowding, poor ventilation, improper temperature, excessive lighting, and extended feed restriction periods can all lead to pecking.

Note: 1. Chickens that have been pecked should be promptly removed, and the pecked areas can be coated with waste motor oil.

2. Chickens can be debeaked at 9 days old, and their beaks should be trimmed once every 70-80 days.

3. Surrounding the pens, you can add some red to distract the chickens.

4. Wearing glasses, improving husbandry management environments, etc.

Day-old chicks: prevent 2 diseases before 14 days of age

Prevent Salmonella (typhoid), reduce bacterial infections, minimize the occurrence of weak and disabled chickens, and lower culling rates!

② Preventing adeno-myocarditis and gasteroenteritis > Will not affect later weight gain; avoid uneven size and slow growth in the flock.