Indo-ducks are called still musky ducks or shipuna. This is quite quiet poultry who is easy for parting and just to contain. Meat at her dietary, quite good taste also contains not enough fat. How to breed Indo-ducks?
Instruction
1. Usually Indo-ducks are supported families. For cultivation of musky ducks buy one male and two-three the self-check. Though males much more largely also weigh up to 7 kg, but females are very prolific, in a year bear 100-120 eggs. Females can also be coupled to other breeds of ducks which larger, then the posterity will be grown up on meat, only it will not have fertility.
2. Musky ducks are not exacting to food, grow much quicker, than other house living creatures and use much less forages, than the Beijing ducks.
3. Calculate the room for Indo-ducks at the rate of one square meter on three individuals. Remember that it is a thermophilic bird therefore warm the hen house. Temperature for very young ducklings has to be not lower than 20 degrees. In hard frosts surely spread straw or sawdust to those places where ducks are walked. You watch that excess moisture indoors did not gather. At the increased humidity the duck can catch aspergillomycosis. Therefore before putting a laying in the hen house, strew all with chloric lime (1 kg on square meter). You lay a laying not less than 5 centimeters thick and periodically change it.
4. When feeding a bird use kitchen waste, a beet tops of vegetable, the crushed grass, grain. Previously presoak barley and give together with water. Musky ducks love corn. Give them bourgeoises from grain wastes with water and chopped greens. It is very useful to add vitamin and mineral additives to a forage. For this purpose use Ivan Ivanovich or Ryabushka premix. Now produce special compound feeds for ducks with a complete set of useful mineral additives.
5. You watch that in the winter of a duck did not become wet. They poorly developed sebaceous glands therefore if feathers become wet and will ice over, the bird can die.
6. If ducks began to tear out from themselves feathers, means at them - a biting louse, strew them with sulfur which is mixed with ashes or sand. Use this means and for prevention.
7. Low-quality food can lead to inflammation of a foul place when on mucous there are ulcers and cracks. Process them special disinfecting ointments and add carrots to a diet, and give more fresh greens in the summer.
8. If your bird ruffled up, sits in one place with the blown-up craw, from nostrils grayish liquid is emitted, it often opens a beak, Qatar of a craw means at it. Do it massage of a craw, give at first day one water, and then add liquid fermented milk products. And surely change a food allowance.