Free-range poultry refers to poultry raised by farmers in the yard, in front of the house, or in grassland, farmland, forest, hillside and a certain area of water fence, or in small-scale poultry houses. There is no formal poultry house in this poultry breeding method, and most of them use open or semi-open simple sheds or nests as places for poultry to rest and lay eggs.

Grassland free-range cultivation

Free stocking of fruit forest

Free-range woodland

Shennai Pingyao

Mountains without mountains

Free stocking in courtyard

Free-range poultry is a traditional and common poultry raising method in rural areas of China. About 60% ~ 70% of the more than 654.38+000 billion poultry released in China every year are free-range in rural areas. It is an important economic source and livelihood guarantee for thousands of farmers. However, in modern poultry production, the disadvantages of free-range poultry are increasingly obvious. Its facilities and production technology are backward, irregular and low in production efficiency; The scale of feeding is small, and the age of poultry is uneven, so it is impossible to achieve "all in and all out"; Poor sanitary conditions and difficult epidemic prevention make it impossible to carry out routine disinfection and epidemic prevention, and some even have no disinfection and epidemic prevention plan at all. The use of vaccines and veterinary drugs is not standardized, and the probability of infectious diseases and other diseases in poultry is high. Therefore, the way of free-range poultry breeding in rural areas in China needs to be improved and improved urgently.

Fence feeding