What kind of bedding material is good for raising chickens in greenhouses? How to manage the bedding materials?

What kind of bedding material is good for raising chickens in greenhouses ?

The commonly used bedding materials in chicken coops include wood shavings, wheat straw, rice straw, sawdust, and sand. Each type of bedding material has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it is best to choose a mixture of different bedding materials.

How to manage bedding materials?

1. Maintain a suitable cushion thickness of 5-7cm in summer and 10-15cm in winter; The coverage amount of wood shavings or rice husks is 6kg/㎡, and the crushed wheat straw is 1.25kg/㎡.

2. Replace the bedding material before the chicken flock starts production and after deworming and purification replace the bedding material once; During the later stages of egg production, replacement should be carried out according to weather conditions, avoiding the immunization period.

3. Control the humidity of the bedding material and adjust it according to seasonal changes. When the climate is humid, keep the bedding material dry. When the air is too dry, increase the humidity of the bedding material appropriately. Spray water into the house to increase the humidity of the bedding material. It is advisable to avoid dust when flipping the bedding material; During the chick rearing period, after turning off the lights and putting chickens on the shelves every day, flip the bedding material to keep it dry and loose, while flipping the lower bedding material to the upper layer to dry; During the egg laying period, when the hens are feeding or when the roosters are finished eating, they should flip the bedding to avoid major stress reactions in the flock.

4. Maintain the quality of the bedding material and regularly check the quality of the bedding material inside the chicken coop. Based on laboratory testing results, improve or maintain the quality of the bedding material.

Chicken farmers can choose bedding materials such as shavings and sawdust according to their actual situation, but regardless of which type of bedding material they choose, it must have characteristics such as fresh, dry, dust-free, mold free, sand free, and strong water absorption. At the same time, it is equally important to do a good job in daily bedding material management, and the storage of bedding material is also important to avoid dampness. When quality problems occur, they should be replaced in a timely manner.

The mixture of wood shavings and sawdust is good bedding material for chicken farm, and dry and germ-free wood shavings is necessary. Wood shavings is made of wood logs, usually the initial moisture content is up to about 40%-50%, not only it is too wet, but also it will become mildewed.

Wood shavings dryer machine by Sunco Machinery is specially designed for drying wood shavings and sawdust. It is to use high temperature air to heat and dry wood shavings and sawdust continuously and quickly. The hot air temperature near the inlet end of the wood shavings dryer is up to about 300℃-400℃，and the wood shavings drying time in the dryer machine is about 25-30 minutes.

After being dried, the moisture content of wood shavings and sawdust can drop to be less than 15% or even low, and under high temperature the bacterial and germs are killed.  The dried wood shavings and sawdust is widely used as high quality chicken farm bedding materials in the market.

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