Why do chicks have their beaks cut off?

Beak trimming is a very important job in chick feeding and management. To the uninitiated, beak cutting is a very strange thing, but it is good for farmers. Beak trimming, also known as beak trimming, is generally performed at 8-10 days.

The beak trimming time is too early. The chick is too small, the beak is too soft, and it is easy to regenerate. The beak trimming time is too late, which will cause great damage to the chick and is difficult to operate.

So what is the purpose of beak cutting?

1. When the chicken is eating, the chicken mouth is easy to hook the feed, causing the waste of the feed.

2. It is the nature of chickens to be good at pecking. During the brooding process, the breeding density is too high, the ventilation of the chicken house is poor, and the position of feeding and drinking water is insufficient, which will cause the chickens to pecking the feathers and anus, causing confusion. , severe death. In addition, chickens are particularly sensitive to red. When they see red blood, they are particularly excited, and the body’s hormone secretion is unbalanced. The pecking habit of individual chickens will cause the pecking habit of the whole flock. After the beak is cut, the chicken’s beak becomes blunt, and it is not easy to peck and bleed, thereby effectively reducing the death rate.

Notes on beak trimming:

1. The beak cutting time should be reasonable and completed in the shortest time. The immune time should be avoided to avoid affecting the immune effect.

2. Do not cut off the beak of sick chicks.

3. Beak cutting will cause a series of stress reactions in chicks, such as bleeding and decreased immunity. The day before and the day after beak cutting, multivitamins and glucose should be added to the feed and drinking water to improve immunity and reduce stress reactions. .

4. After the beak is cut off, more feed should be added to the trough to avoid discomfort at the bottom of the trough where the beak is broken during the feeding process.

5. Do a good job in the disinfection of the chicken coop and the disinfection of the breeding equipment.