Mini meat chickens for a private household

If your goal in breeding poultry is to get both meat and eggs, then mini meat and white and colored chicken meats, which take a little places, quite unpretentious in maintenance and care and quite productive.

Content
  1. About mini-chickens
  2. Benefits for the private sector
  3. Subtleties of growing and keeping
  4. Premises <
  5. Feeding characteristics
  6. Overview of individual subspecies
  7. Chickens B33
  8. Chickens P11
  9. B66 Hens

Мини-мясные куры

Mini-meat chickens

About mini-chickens

Mini meat motley breed of chickens has found its consumer, due to the ability to grow it in a small area of ​​h stnogo farm.

His appearance minimyasnaya obliged Zagorsky institutions working in the field of domestic poultry located in the Moscow region.

In many European countries, mini chicken breeds have replaced the classical chicken representatives. Small cocks and hens red and white have become especially popular with French and English poultry houses, due to the high rates of meat and egg productivity. In Russia, they breed and sell mini-roosters and hens in Yekaterinburg, Sergiev Posad, Podolsk, Orekhovo-Zuevo.

The general description of the standards that each individual subspecies of mini-hens fits into includes the main appearance parameters:

  • small size and light weight of hens and roosters,
  • very short legs,
  • dense hard plumage.

The weight of mini-representatives varies from 2.5-2.7 kg of a chicken and up to 3.0 kg rooster. The average egg production is 170 pieces, which can significantly exceed these indicators when creating the most favorable conditions for keeping and feeding. An egg weighs 50-60 g. Average breeding rates:

  • survival rate of young animals – at least 85%,
  • hatchability – at least 80%,
  • safety adult – at least 90%.

Representatives of mini-meat breeds of chickens can be in one of 3 possible colors: white, fawn or red.

Benefits for the private economy

Among the positive qualities of the breeds of these hens, the reviews of the houses indicate:

  • rapid intensive growth and early maturity,
  • feed intake, quick and easy to digest puffiness,
  • the ability to contain and grow hens in cages and aviaries,
  • a rather large size of the delivered eggs, despite the small size of the individual itself,
  • balanced and unaddressed nature,
  • profitability from the economic side in terms of saving space and the amount of expenses for feeding.

Among the shortcomings of these hens:

  • predisposition to colds due to frequent hypothermia due to the low location of the trunk due to short paws;
  • predisposition to paw diseases with insufficient nutrition;
  • the need for separate keeping of hens of different color shades due to the prohibition of their crossing.

The subtleties of growing and keeping

Small broilers when growing and keeping at home show themselves as universal birds capable of living without creating special conditions.

Room

Provided in the premises where the bird is kept, the temperature should be at least at least for chickens 35 ° C, and for adults – not lower than 20 ° C, survival of up to 100% can be achieved.

When keeping small meat birds in quantities of more than a dozen, poultry houses do not recommend mixing individuals of different colors, as their crossing often leads to a weakening of immunity in the younger generation and the loss of hereditary

It is possible to contain small meat breeds of chickens both in enclosures and cages in confined spaces and in the outdoor way.At the same time, the rules for cleaning the room, its disinfection , the absence of drafts and the observance of the requirements for humidity indicators are the same as when growing and maintaining ordinary classic chicken breeds .

Feed features

Feeding small meat chickens and roosters differs from the feed ration of other hens only in the amount of food consumed. In order to ensure proper feeding of chickens, poultry houses often use ready-made feed mixtures in accordance with the age category of poultry, intended for fattening broilers, which are necessarily mixed with chalk and flour (fish or meat and bone) . Young growth can be grown on natural nutrition, which consists of cottage cheese products and fresh herbs.

Overview of individual subspecies

Among the individual subspecies that were bred in Russia, the most famous B66, P11 and B33. Their differences can be seen in the photo and video.

Hens B33

Otherwise they are called dwarf leghorn. The color of the chicken is white. The reviews of the houses indicate that these birds

  • survive in 98% of cases,
  • absorb feed 40% less than ordinary birds of standard sizes,
  • they are friendly in nature,
  • they feel comfortable in a limited space, regardless of their active temperament,
  • egg productivity indicators reach up to 250 eggs per year.

P11 chickens

Representatives of the P11 breed, or Roy Island, have established themselves in the domestic breeding as hardy, productive and active birds, differing:

  • early ability to lay eggs,
  • the possibility of cell and aviary content,
  • reduced feed intake (not more than 120 g per day per head).

Color P11 is fawn (red).

B66 chickens

Although they are not advanced workers on farms, they have established a stable growth dynamics among poultry houses and received numerous positive reviews.

B66 hens are universal with a greater share of meat focus. Like other miniature meat chickens, these birds are firmly built, with a horizontally placed body and short legs. The suit at B66 is only white. The description of the breed includes the advantages of poultry in a productive way:

  • the average egg production of hens is 180 eggs weighing 50-65 g with the potential to increase this indicator to 250 with proper and proper care and nutrition,
  • early maturity, egg fertility rate is 93,
  • chick viability indicators are 85-87% with potential borders of up to 95%,
  • economic benefit of feed use is up to 35% compared with the cost of classic breeds of chickens,
  • the comfort of the cage and floor with holding equivalent.

B66 hens weigh 2.5 to 2.7 kg.

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