Description and characteristics of broilers of the breed KOBB 700

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The main goal of poultry farmers who decide to breed chickens is to profit from eggs or meat, so it is important to study the breed market and their characteristics before raising these birds. So, one of the most popular hybrids is the broiler KOBB 700.

Broiler KOBB 700

These chickens combine high performance and egg production... But, despite its popularity, such a bird also has disadvantages that all farmers who want to acquire a new livestock need to know.

The popularity of the breed and its external features

COBB broilers are popular all over the world. They gained their popularity due to their high growth rates and productivity. More recently, the most effective cross was considered “500»Hybrid. The new line has been adopted by farmers around the world as an improved broiler. And so it happened. Hybrid chickens are descendants of the most productive chicken breeds ("New Hampshire», «Rhode Aileskie ","Plymouthrocks" and etc.). Representatives of this breed immediately raised the productivity indicator several points higher than their predecessors.

These broilers look little different from other COBBs. They are just as strong and massive, have white plumage and yellow carcass color. The description of the 2 hybrid breeds still has some differences. Seven hundredths have a wider, fleshy breast, and their thighs are narrower. They can be seen in the PHOTO. The predecessors are distinguished by more modest anthropometric parameters.

According to farmers who breed 700 COBBs, keeping these birds is easy and profitable. The main thing is to sort the chickens correctly: to reject pigmented, weak and lagging birds. One individual with proper care and feeding at the age of 2 months can reach 1.8 kg. This indicator is the highest in modern farming and they have no direct competitors. Chickens are the ideal option for not only meat but also eggs, while keeping feed costs to a minimum.

Breeding benefits

The 700th Cobb has an ideal cost-benefit ratio, not only for production purposes, but also at home. This is one of the advantages of the hybrid, in addition to which poultry farmers also distinguish:

• high weight gain;
• good egg production;
• easy care;
• strong immunity to infectious and viral diseases;
• unpretentiousness in food.

These advantages make the cross one of the most popular for breeding. The less effort and money is spent on keeping these birds, the better for their owner. Plus, the end result is tasty and healthy meat and eggs. Russia, like other countries, has long appreciated the quality of these products. Even when bred at home, chickens will surprise their owner by showing rapid growth and productivity.

Cross 700 has almost no flaws.

One of the most significant is the resemblance to the five hundredth cobb. It will be easy for an experienced farmer to determine where the seven hundredth hybrid is and where is its predecessor.But for all novice poultry farmers, this task may be too tough. People especially often make mistakes when buying young animals. Broiler chickens are almost identical to their five hundredth peers, and the first external noticeable difference appears only after 2-3 weeks from birth of the chick, when it acquires a more powerful breast, and its scalp becomes bright and red.

Features of the content

Such a breed characteristic as high egg production cannot be achieved without proper and effective bird care.

Problems can begin as early as the first day after the acquisition of young animals. Changing the main habitat often causes stress in chickens, and this affects the state of their immunity. Broilers can become sick, resulting in partial their deathstherefore the farmer needs to place the chicks in the incubator. This procedure has its own characteristics, which include:

• long-term incubator maintenance up to 15 days;
• unimpeded access to the feeder and drinker;
• constant temperature maintenance in the incubator at 27-30 ° С;
• from the tenth day, it is necessary to lower the temperature by 1 ° per day.

Chickens do not tolerate cold well. The minimum temperature of their content is 16 ° C. In addition, for their growth and productivity, it is important to provide the hybrid with high humidity. Other care features are also important. So, COBB-700 does not require walking and should contained in cells or small chicken coops. For 1 sq. m there can be up to 10 birds. Many farmers select cages for such a hybrid breed based on the declared breeding characteristics (40 kg weight / sq. M).

Despite their strong immunity to viral and infectious diseases, birds require constant heat and the absence of drafts. The hen house should always kept clean, and their feeder and drinker should be filled with food and water. It is also important to equip the area with ventilation. The fumes from the droppings are toxic and can cause disease and death in birds.

Features of the diet

The high growth characteristic is closely related to the feeding parameters. The poultry farmer's job is to provide a balanced diet for the cobb. The simplicity of the food of these birds is the advantage of keeping them. But in order for broilers of this breed to gain weight quickly, it is necessary to give them industrial feed. Feeding with compound feed has its own characteristics, which include:

1. The need to feed chicks in the first 2 weeks of their life starter feed... The best option is eight meals a day.
2. From 15 to 24 days, chickens should be fed with growth compound feed 5 times a day.
3. Finishing feed is used after 24 days.

It is very difficult to raise healthy and massive chickens without purchasing industrial nutritious feed. Only experienced poultry farmers decide on such measures, independently preparing the mash. It is necessary to calculate the mass of each component in terms of energy value. This feed includes grains, herbs, dairy products, premixes, chalk, etc. With proper feeding, the chicken should weigh 1.5 kg after 2 weeks. Slaughter is carried out at the age of 1.5 months, when their weight reaches 2.4-2.8 kg.

We must not forget that crosses require constant access to a drinking bowl. Novice farmers need to know that a bird cannot live without water for more than 12 hours. The safest break is 6 hours. The drinker must be kept clean and filled with fresh water at all times. If this is not done, the birds can get sick, which will also affect the decline in productivity and lead to the death of part of the livestock.

What needs to be taken care of

For novice farmers, breeding seven hundred cobbs can seem like a daunting task. To always act correctly, it is necessary to effectively use the experience of other poultry breeders who have received good growth and productivity indicators of their flocks. Some of these reviews are about nutrition.

Some farmers recommend mixing compound feed with herbs, which is an additional source of nutrients. Other poultry farmers prefer not to deviate from the recommended norms and pay more attention and time to the cleanliness of the cages. All agree on only one thing: if there is a desire to purchase 700 cobbies, you first need to install an incubator that will help not only raise healthy chickens, but also maintain the number of heads kept.