For free-range chicken farmers, how to increase the egg production of native chickens is a common concern of everyone. Because sometimes selling native eggs is more profitable than selling native chickens.
So how to increase the egg production of native chickens? Of course, it is to find ways to increase the egg production rate of the native chicken, and at the same time extend the time for the native chicken to lay eggs. The "close relatives" of this ginseng that we are going to talk about today can play an important role in both aspects. It's Eleutherococcus senticosus.
Eleutherococcus senticosus is a shrub 1 to 6 meters tall, mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning (Shenyang), Hebei and Shanxi.
However, it is not an ordinary shrub, but also has a high medicinal value, can have the effect of "tonifying the spirit, strengthening the bones, strengthening the will", taking it for a long time can also be "light and resistant to aging", and can also be combined with other traditional Chinese medicines to "eat, strengthen the strength, and not forget things".
According to the "Cannon Burning Theory" of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, Eleutherococcus sentience has the effect of "yang people make yin, yin people make yang". It can be seen that Eleuthero has a long history of medicinal use in China.
In fact, Eleutherococcus and the famous ginseng are closely related plants. Some foreign people have conducted a unified study of ginseng and eleuthero, which proves that eleuthero and ginseng also have similar pharmacological effects and clinical efficacy. In raising chickens, Eleutheroccus senticosus is actually a kind of "treasure".
It has been proved in practice that during the egg laying period, the reasonable feeding of a certain amount of eleuthero can effectively improve the egg production rate of the native chicken and significantly prolong the egg production cycle of the native chicken.
The specific method is as follows: after drying and grinding the leaves or bark of Eleutherocococcus senticosus into powder, the chickens are fed in a ratio of 1 to 300, feeding every 1 to 2 days. After a week of continuous feeding, the hen's face and crown were significantly more rosy and more active, and the egg laying rate began to increase significantly.
If you have the conditions, friends can add a certain amount of He Shou Wu to Eleutherococcus centrum, so that the extension of the egg laying cycle of the native chicken will be more obvious.
The above is the role of Ginseng's close relative Eleutherococcus in the breeding of native chickens, for reference only.