This is a chicken breeding model of more than 25,000 children of Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan’s family at Hamlet 8, Loc Thuan Township, Loc Ninh District, Binh Phuoc.

With 8 sao land, Mr. Tuan invested in 8 rows of closed cages and raised Minh Du chicken breed. The area of ​​each cage designed by Mr. Tuan is 310m2, the stocking density is 100 chickens/1m2, so each coop has 3,000 chickens on average. In addition, he raised 2,000 more chickens from Ben Tre and 1,000 chickens from the garden.

Speaking about the reason why chickens breed Minh Du, Mr. Tuan said that each breed of chicken has different advantages and disadvantages, because if the breed has only disadvantages, no one will raise it, otherwise there is no perfect breed.

“What breed I raise depends on many other factors, not just good or bad breeds. For example, Minh Du chicken rearing can be kept in a closed cage, since Minh Du chickens are less active than Ben Tre broilers. The rearing period is short, about 3 months, they eat and drink in automatic drinkers, so that they can be supplied at high density. . As for the Ben Tre chicken breed, there are many similarities with the traditional chicken, active and warlike, often fighting. So if you want to raise a lot, you must have a lot of land, space to run and exercise, but not too much cramped all day, it pecks at each other, both dead and hairless,” Mr Tuan analyzed.

Mr. Tuan added that those who keep a breed for a long time understand the growth behavior of this strain and find it easy to breed, others who are not used to it find it difficult to breed. Then there is the market problem, some markets like Minh Du chicken, some people like Cao Khanh chicken, Ben Tre chicken or Dabaco chicken. Therefore, there is no such thing as a perfect race, and there is no such thing as a bad race.

According to Mr. Tuan, farming under the closed model must have strong capital as the average cost of building a barn is about VND250 million. While raising chickens in the form of free range chickens only requires a basic coop, the cost is only about 1/10th that of an enclosed coop.

“To tell the truth, the heavy rain and strong wind make water splash where you sit, although it is not in the house, but also a living space. As for the chicken coop, no matter how much rain or wind there is, there won’t be a drop,” Tuan said, laughing.

Among the three kinds of chickens that Mr. Tuan raises, our chickens have the longest life, from 5-6 months, but the highest price, on average from 100,000 to 110,000 VND/kg, Minh Du chicken costs 60,000 VND/kg and the domestic chicken Ben Tre 85,000 – 90,000 VND/kg.

“I raise 3 species, because each species has its own advantages, raising many species will have different customers, less risk. Minh Du chickens are kept closed in large numbers, while domestic and domestic chickens have fewer customers but have higher prices. As for our chickens, the cost of feed is insignificant because the garden is large, with many leaves, grass and insects, sometimes many children are full and satisfied after a day of digging in the ground,” Tuan said.

According to Mr. Tuan, the chicken farm is closed this time, if not wise, it’s a loss. This is because the price of bran increases by VND 100,000/bag while the output of the product remains the same.

“If you don’t raise chickens properly or let chickens get sick, the high loss rate is easy to make money or losses. I have been raising chickens for a long time, have experience in chicken disease prevention, and then regularly monitor them and see strange symptoms . It is made early and treated immediately, so there is little loss. In addition, I use available feed for chickens to eat, such as rice bran powder, corn, so the cost is also reduced.” Mr. Tuan trusted.

One of Tuan’s experiences in preventing and treating some common diseases in chickens such as flu, asthma, ticks and boosting the immune system and improving the chickens’ resistance is the use of garlic supplements.

“Besides the vaccination against dangerous chicken diseases recommended by the veterinary industry, the rest of the time I mainly use garlic to prevent and treat diseases until they are released. I learned this experience from my father. When I was a child, the family also kept a few laying hens, every time I saw one standing alone with its head bowed, the old man would mash garlic, mix water, pour it to drink. He then rubbed garlic juice on the chicken’s nose and throat, and it quickly recovered. After raising chickens professionally, I remembered and applied this method and found it effective,” Mr. Tuan confided in me.

However, Mr. Tuan said that raising a large number of animals cannot use garlic juice for each child, but needs to crush the garlic and mix it with drinking water and chicken feed. As for treating ticks and mites in chickens, Mr. Tuan mixes and sprays garlic juice on the whole flock of chickens and sprays it around the coop.

But to say that garlic is not just put in water, in food is ready, you need to get the right dose, but if you give it too much, it will be counterproductive. For example, quantify garlic at about 0.3% of the feed, but only feed it about 2 times a week. Or drinking water per liter of water just mixed with 1 crushed clove of garlic. For a long time, Mr. Tuan rarely had to ask the veterinarian to ask him to apply these techniques and experiences when caring for chickens.

“In Loc Thuan, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan is one of the biggest investors in the breeding model. Another good thing is that Mr. Tuan knows some very good chicken disease remedies, so his chickens rarely get sick, the loss rate is not significant. Many people in the community have come to his farm to visit and learn,” said Mr. Phan Quoc Oai, Chairman of the Loc Thuan Municipality Farmers’ Association.