All chicken breeds are classified into two maindirections: meat (broilers) and egg (layers). What kind of bird to start depends on the wishes of the owner of the farmstead. Broilers require more care, but also to keep them more profitable. Nesushki unpretentious and do not deliver to the owners absolutely no problems. The breed of chicken foxy-chic has combined the best qualities of both kinds of poultry. It refers to broilers. However, at the same time, up to 300 eggs per year can be obtained from each layer of focci-chik. About how exactly these chickens look, and also about the peculiarities of their content and we will talk further.
Chickens foxy-chic: description of the breed
This name was given to this bird for the color of itsplumage, which has a pronounced red hue. "Foxy-chic" is translated from English as "fox chicken". These chickens were brought to Ukraine from Hungary. Hence their second name is the "Hungarian giant". These are really very large chickens. Owners of homesteads often call them "red broilers". Features of the exterior of the breed include:
- Large size and some squat. Externally, the chick fox-chick is very similar to the bird of the well-known breed of master-gray, but has somewhat shorter legs.
- Fluffy, thick plumage, the shade of which can vary from fiery-red to brownish-red.
- Yellow, powerful legs.
- Broad chest.
- A bright red leaf-like comb and earrings of the same color.
The chick fox-chick look is actually spectacularly beautiful. The owners who decided to get this breed, for sure, will be envious of all the neighbors, poultry farmers.
Features of the breed
Chickens foxy-chik (description of the breed given above,visually demonstrates their attractive and characteristic appearance for boilers), among other things, they are also very unpretentious. Contain this bird is not at all more difficult than ordinary laying hens. These chickens grow a little slower than broilers, but their survival rate is much higher. This indicator can reach 100% of the brood. To the behavioral characteristics of the chickens of this breed can be attributed, above all, pugnacity. Farmers who have already had time to get acquainted with phoenicians, do not advise leaving more than one sexually mature female in the herd. These birds fight very often. There are conflicts between the chickens. This is a peculiarity of character. Therefore, to worry, for example, that the bird does not have enough food and this causes aggression, it is not worth it.
Another feature of chickens of this breed isnoise. If a pet or a stranger approaches the enclosure, the owners will immediately be notified of this by a loud scream of males and the nervous cackling of chickens.
Features of growth
Фокси-чик – куры, вырастающие действительно очень large. Petushki gain weight to 5-7 kg. Chicken in this breed is much smaller. Their weight can reach 3.5-4 kg. But they rush very well. In the household with the appropriate care of 200 eggs per year to get very simple. Thanks to this feature, buying chicks from this breed is actually very profitable. Petushki can later be hammered into meat, and leave chickens for eggs for a couple of years.
The gain in weight of this bird is as follows:
- in a 20-day-old bird weighs about 500 grams;
- in the 30-day period - 700 grams;
- about a week later the average weight of the bird is already about a kilogram;
- at the age of one and a half months chickens foxy-chic weigh about 1300 grams.
What you should know about
A feature of these chickens is also thatfirst time the teenage chickens look very thin and long. Because of this, many owners of the farm sometimes even begin to suspect the sellers of the chicks in forgery of the breed. However, after a while, the pho- tocics begin to add weight sharply, which immediately affects their appearance. The bird grows into a typical broiler with a broad chest and powerful paws.
Eggplant
These chickens are carried, as already mentioned, very muchOK. Among other things, they also refer to very early ripening breeds. To lay eggs, the chicken foxy-chick begins at 4 months of age or a little later. Fly these birds, despite the great weight, not worse than layers. Nests for them can be located at the level of the roosts (about 80 cm above the ground). Eggs in foxy-chicks are large enough (65-70 gr), and the shell is pleasant cream color.
Features of feeding
Foxy-chik - chickens suitable for breedingit is just in the household plots that is excellent. You can keep them both in cages and just in the shed. The main part of their diet is made up of grains and legumes. This can be, for example, wheat, corn, barley or peas. Of course, you need to give chickens and poultry. They are prepared from grated potatoes, carrots, beets, apples, etc. Be sure to add to such vitamin food and fresh chopped herb. A lot of useful substances for the bird body are found in the nettle, cabbage leaf, quinoa, carrot tops, beets and radish, etc.
Of course, the ration of chickens should include andbalanced feed, as well as a variety of vitamin and productivity enhancing additives for broilers. In addition, the grain should be mixed with chalk and salt in small quantities. It will not damage chickens and such an addition as fish and meat-and-bone meal. In general, the diet for this bird is not much different from the "menu" of any other broilers. The breed of chickens should be given a sufficiently large number of proteins.
Features of the content
An aviary for chickens of this breed can be small.Since the plumage is magnificent, they feel great even in a sharply continental climate. It is not necessary to heat a house in the winter even in the central part of Russia. However, to cover the floor with a thick layer of straw, of course, is worth it. In such a litter, different kinds of biological processes begin to occur with time, accompanied by the release of heat. As a result, in winter the layer begins to perform the function of a natural "heater". Prostelit floors can not only straw, but, for example, sawdust or hay. It is not stopped when the chicken fox-chick is carried in the cold season.
In the summer period in the shed should not be toohot. In any case, ventilation in the form of at least one opening window should be arranged. Nasties and feeders are arranged in the usual way. The first is made of poles with a cross section of about 4 cm and is installed at a height of about 80 cm above the floor surface. Feeders are knocked down so that chickens can not climb in them with their feet or leave the litter.
The aviary is built on the south side. From the chicken coop in it suit a course. In front of the poultry house a table is set up for preparing stitch bags and mixed fodder.
Care for small chickens
Since chickens are foxy-chick (photos can be seen onpage) - the breed is very productive, the chicks are pretty expensive. The seller should be selected very carefully. On the market, in the guise of fox-chicks, completely different breeds are often sold. And for the same price. It is better to buy chickens at some official incubation station. Especially cautious should be the inhabitants of Russia. On forums on the Internet (2015), owners of household plots complain about a huge number of fraudulent ads on the sale of eggs of this breed, posted on a variety of sites. In Russia, pho-chiks are still very, very rare.
Bought brood feeds in the usual way.First, chickens are given a starting mixture for broilers. Later, gradually begin to give mixed fodder and ground grain. Since the food is dry, the chickens should have constant access to fresh water. In good weather, the chicks can be allowed to walk in the aviary at the age of three weeks. With good care, the fox-chick chickens, the description of which was given above, will quickly gain weight and begin to lay eggs early.
Breeding "in itself"
Попробовать получить потомство от этих кур можно including at home. Breeding this bird "in itself" - the procedure is not particularly difficult. Usually the chicken foxy-chick comes down with the roosters of the orpington red or the genus of the island. In this case, the offspring of the second generation in terms of productivity, almost nothing parental bird will not yield. When using the males, the orpington chicks will grow almost as large as the phoxic chicks. Crossing with the genus Aylend allows to obtain chickens with very high rates of egg production.
Chickens foxy-chic (photo is confirmed in fullmeasure) - the breed is really very productive and unpretentious. To keep this bird at home is certainly profitable. Roosters grow very large, and layers lay many eggs. At the same time, the taste qualities of the latter, like the meat of this bird, are simply excellent.
