Breeding domestic chickens - a very popular practice for the owners of their own estates. This is nothing surprising. Chickens are great for keeping at home.
Many breeds are not whimsical to food and conditions. One of such cross-country chickens, which will delight you with fresh eggs almost daily, is Shaver.
Cross Shaver was obtained in the Dutch company Hendrix Genetics Company as a result of hybridization. Calm and small Shaver chickens were bred for the daily production of small eggs of good quality. Such chickens are bred in many poultry farms and are easily kept in the household.
Description of Breed
Chickens Cross Shaver belong to the direction of the egg. Like other egg hens, these are very mobile, small birds with light bones and dense plumage, as well as a well-developed crest and earrings.
Chickens of this cross have a white, black or brown color. Chickens with different colors are called accordingly: shaver white, shaver black and shaver brown. Chickens begin to feather very quickly, and cockerels are somewhat longer.
At the age of one day you can already spend sexing on the growth rate of the pen. After a day of chickens from cockerels can be distinguished by two brown stripes on the back.
The hen's crest is leafy, of a bright red color, it stands erect in cockerels, and in hens it hangs slightly to one side. The eyes of the birds are quite expressive, very lively, with a bright dark orange iris in young hens and a paler one in adults.
Earrings are usually medium in size, slightly rounded and red. Earlobes of birds are white. The beak is rather long and strong, yellow.
The neck is short, curved. Roosters have a proud posture. Their breasts are convex and round, and the pectoral muscles are rather well developed. The back is slightly elongated and concave in the middle.
The abdomen in birds, especially in laying hens, is very voluminous. Legs are bare, without plumage, of medium length. In young birds, they are yellow or light orange in color, in more mature and productive birds become white, with a slight bluish tinge.
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The tail of the hens is slightly lowered, while the roosters are raised.
Features
- Birds are very disease resistant. The latest breeding development has allowed to get chickens that do not suffer from neoplastic diseases, including leukemia, Marek's disease and reticuloendotheliosis.
- The laying period is very long - about 80 weeks.
- The eggs of this cross contain a large amount of beneficial Omega-3 acids, when flax seed is introduced into the diet of the bird.
- Laying birds of this breed are very calm and hardy, easily adapting to different climatic conditions.
- Very favorable feed conversion compared to other breeds of chickens.
- The eggshell is very smooth and durable.
- The rapid increase in egg mass during the productive period.
- Very high manufacturing quality and stable performance.
- Birds of this breed have high genetic potential.
- The average life expectancy of 3-4 years.
- The breed practically does not require special care, even a novice can easily cope with birds. Some owners may say that such chickens "planted and forgotten."
Content and cultivation
Chickens are very hardy, 96-98% of the chicks survive, with proper care. 80-82% of the young live.
It is very important to protect young chicks from drafts, because at a young age they are rather tender. Some birds quickly begin to make short flights.
They are best kept net. Possible periods of cannibalism in birds during the molting period. Birds start pecking at their chicks, heads and earrings of each other. With proper feeding and light mode, cannibalism passes quickly.
On average, a bird consumes 100-110g of feed per day. This is 5-10% less than chickens of other egg breeds. The bird is almost picky in nutrition. Chickens can be given ready-made factory feed, grain and grass.
Calcium should be introduced into feed starting at 4% and gradually increasing its level to 4.5%. During the entire period, it is very important to maintain approximately the same level of caloric intake. On average, it should be 2900 kcal per kilogram of feed.
Specifications
The average weight of a chicken of this cross about two kilograms is reached at the age of 52 weeks. Already after 18 weeks, chickens reach a weight of 1.3 kg, and at the age of 23 weeks the bird weighs 1.85 kg.
The bird starts to be born at the age of 5 months.. During the productive period, one chicken can carry up to 400 eggs. Their eggs are small and durable. The weight of one egg is about 55-65 grams. The shell is dense, white or brown, depending on the color of the bird itself.
The strength of the shell 4000g with sufficient calcium in the diet. Eggs are rich in dry matter, which has a positive effect on their taste. Protein is dense, does not liquefy during storage. Defective eggs are very few - less than 1%.
Where can I buy in Russia?
Chickens of this cross-country are very common in the poultry farms of southern and central regions of Russia. You can find this breed in some Siberian poultry farms.
You can buy chickens for your household in poultry farms:
- "Belorechensk"(Irkutsk region, Usolsky district, settlement of Belorechensk, t.: + 7 (395) 250-60-04)
- "Poultry"(Moscow, Troitsky administrative district, settlement Ptichnoe.)
- "Petelinsky poultry farm"(Moscow region, Odintsovsky district, Chastsy settlement, t.: + 7 (495) 514-15-60)
- "Vasilievskaya"(Penza region, Bessonovsky district, village Vasilyevka, t.: + 7 (841) 258-09-44)
- "Chicken Kingdom"(Lipetsk Region, Lipetsk District, Lenino Village, t .: +7 (474) 242-30-02
At these factories you can purchase both a small batch of birds for domestic keeping, and a large one for the whole farm. As a selection material used foreign birds from France, Holland and Canada.
The leading position is occupied by the Ptichnoe breeding farm. It even engages in large deliveries of this breed of chickens to other countries. Young chickens are carefully transported across the border in airplanes and trucks.
Analogs
In many ways, the shaver crosses are similar to the Leghorny, Andalusian and Minorca egg laying crosses. They can be kept in the same room.
If you still have little experience in breeding and keeping poultry, and you want to have a breed of birds that brings a lot of eggs, then the Cross Shaver is just right for you.
You will not have serious problems with the content of these birds. At the same time, these small and calm chickens will daily delight you with fresh and high-quality eggs.
