As a hobbyist of fighting chickens, you certainly need to be careful in caring for fighting chicken feathers to be shiny, strong and flexible. On the good quality feathers will determine the appearance and attractiveness of the chicken. Caring for Game chicken feathers is very important in maintenance. Because of the appearance of these feathers will radiate the charm and performance of fighting chickens and can make opponents feel inferior. The health of the fighting rooster feathers will affect the performance when competing. The appearance of a good and healthy fur will also be much ogled by hobbyists and have a higher selling price.
Feathers are one of the important parts in fighting chickens, especially wing and tail feathers. The functions of wing feathers include:
- Determining springboard height & punch strength
- Body armor when attacked
- For agility and agility
While the function of tail feathers:
- For balance when striking and landing
Makes fur stronger, supple and shiny. Good quality fur is fur whose structure is complete, neatly arranged, strong and flexible or not easily broken. As well as shiny as oily if exposed to sunlight. The quality of feathers is one of the indicators of the state of health of chickens and the readiness of chickens for pitting.
Anatomically, the feather structure consists of a feather sheet, a feather stalk covered with a feather sheet and a feather stalk at the base. The mechanism of hooking the feather sheets on the stalk is important to form sturdy feathers (especially on the wings and tail) to be able to fly.
When keeping fighting chickens, caring for chickens starts from the beginning of hatching until the age of 6 months or until they have raw feathers. During the growth of the fighting chicken, it should be kept in the cage to avoid the chicken losing energy due to too much play. The energy that these chicks have must be used for their body growth, so that the growth of fighting chickens can be maximized. If you want to let the chicks play, you can give them 30 minutes per day. If the playing time is longer, the chicks will be exhausted so that the energy used for growth including feather growth will be reduced. The feathers of laga chicks will grow thick where in the process of growth most of the feed nutrients will be allocated for this. So we need to pay more attention to this process.
In adult chickens that have been competed, chickens that are often pitted must have feathers that have been severely damaged, making hobbyists worry because they make fighting chickens not strong anymore. The growth process of chicken feathers, especially on the wings of new feathers will grow with time 3-4 months so that it will interfere with the activity of the chicken.
For the growth of good quality fur and help increase the strength and flexibility of the fur needs to be given supplements. It also aims to polish the feathers of the fighting chicken so that the physical appearance is more dazzling. For these fighting chicks, supplementation is given in addition to feather formation, it is also necessary to optimize muscle formation. For example, with Furnitin which is given 1 capsule every 1.5 kg of chicken weight every 3 days. From the trial data conducted on fighting chickens aged 4 months, with the provision of supplements Furnitin can improve the shiny level of wing feathers, rawis feathers, back feathers are good. Furnitin also accelerates feather growth and promotes muscle building.
In the treatment of feathers to be shiny and not easily broken can be by bathing the chicken and then drying it in the morning sun. This is in addition to obtaining good feathers, chicken will also look fresh and healthy. To get complete information related to technical maintenance and product information of Medion laga chicken, immediately follow the instagram account @winner.idn dan page Facebook di Winner Indonesia.
