High-quality layer chicken breeds introduced from foreign countries, Highland brown layer chicken, is a more common breed of layer chickens in China, Highland brown not only egg production performance is high-quality, but also easy to raise, after strict breeding procedures of The Highland brown layer chicken is more economical than the general layer chicken breed, in recent years, more and more people have begun to carry out the large-scale breeding of highland brown layer chicken, let's take a look at this foreign high-quality chicken breed - Highland brown layer chicken bar.
Highland brown layer chicken
First, a brief introduction to the breed of Highland brown layer chicken
HY-LINE VARIETY BROWN is a four-line breed of excellent layer chickens bred by HY-LINE International. China introduced from the 1980s, at present, there are many ancestral or parent breeding farms in the country, which is one of the breeds with more brown shell layer chickens.
The father of the Highland brown chicken, Benlo Island Red, has the physical characteristics of typical combination chicken breeds and medium-sized layer chickens. Native to the United States and bred in the early twentieth century, the Rhodo island red chicken has two varieties: a single crown (the father of Highland brown is a single crown) and a rose crown. The ear lobes are red, the whole body feathers are dark red, and the tail feathers are black with luster. The skin, beak and shin are yellow in color. The body is medium and the back is long and flat, which is the biggest feature of the chicken's appearance.
Second, the origin of the Highland brown layer chicken breed
Highland brown is a number of egg breeding farms in China, such as Henan Red Cross Poultry Industry Co., Ltd., which are the famous brown shell layer chicken breeds (ancestors) bred by it directly from The United States Highland International Company every year. Founded in 1936, In more than 60 years of breeding, Highland International was the first to use the hybridization principle to breed commercial layer chickens; and the earliest to use specific blood types to carry out breeding work to improve production performance; the first to develop a feather identification method for white-shell commercial chicks; and the first breeding company to eliminate avian leukemia virus. These achievements have determined the position of Hyland International in the world breeding industry, which has made it one of the world's leading breeding companies.
Third, the appearance characteristics of the variety
Aquamarine brown, like other brown shell layer chicken commercial supporting breeds, is also a four-series match. Its parent is a breed of The Rhodo Red Type Chicken, while the mother is a strain of the Lo Island White Type. Since the parent Benlo Island red and the mother Benlo Island white have the companion gold and silver genes respectively, the commodity generation produced by their matching hybridization can identify males and females according to the color of the villi.
The aquamarine brown parent Benlo Island Red has the physical characteristics of a typical meat-egg chicken breed and a medium-sized layer chicken. Native to the United States and bred in the early 20th century, Lodo Red has two varieties: a single crown (both single crowns in the father of aquamarine brown) and rose crowns. The ear lobes are red, the whole body feathers are dark red, and the tail feathers are black with luster. The skin, beak and shin are yellow in color. The body is medium, and the back is long and flat, which is the biggest feature of the chicken's appearance. The mother Benlo Island is white, with a single red crown, red ear lobes, white plumage, and yellow skin, beak, and tibia. The body is medium, and the back is not as long and flat as the rhodo red.
Aquamarine commercial generation of newborn chicks, the female chicks are all red, the male chicks are white, can distinguish between male and female. However, due to the fact that the mother is a synthetic line, a small number of individuals in the commercial generation have dark brown stripes on the back, and some of the white villi male chicks have light brown stripes on the back. In adulthood, the whole body feathers are basically (overall) red, and most of the upper end of the tail is slightly white. The head of the chicken is relatively compact, single crown, the ear lobes are red, and there are also some with partial white. Yellow skin, beak and tibia. The body shape is strong, basically in the shape of a yuan treasure.
Fourth, the production performance of varieties
Aquamarine has the excellent characteristics of high feed remuneration, egg production and high survival rate. Commodity generation production performance: 1 to 18 weeks old survival rate of 96% to 98%, weight 1550 grams, each chicken consumption of 5.7 ~ 6.7 kg. The peak egg laying rate during the egg laying period (up to 80 weeks) is 94% to 96%, and the number of eggs laid by hens is 246 at 60 weeks of age, 317 at 74 weeks of age, and 344 at 80 weeks of age. The average daily consumption of each chicken at 19 to 80 weeks is 114 grams, the average daily consumption of 21 to 74 weeks is 2.11 kilograms of egg material, and the weight of 72 weeks is 2250 grams. Aquamarine can be reared in many parts of the country, suitable for intensive chicken farms, large-scale chicken farms, professional households and farmers.