Utkovodstvo is one of the earliest branches of poultry farming. Only in two months you will be able to receive a large number of gentle, highly nourishing and juicy meat and also excellent down. To grow up ducks in the economy, it is necessary to consider some features of their contents.
Keeping of ducklings
For cultivation choose the mobile ducklings with shining and prominent eyes who are actively reacting to a sound and strong standing on the feet. Transport baby birds in cardboard boxes up to twenty heads in everyone. The first two weeks of ducklings grow up in cages, then on a floor with vygulny platforms. The place of keeping of ducklings has to be equipped with vacuum drinking bowls, a tray and zhelobkovy feeding trough.Temperature indoors for ducklings has to vary in limits 28-30os, it can be reached by means of oven heating, heaters or other heating system. Such temperature needs to be supported the first three days, then it should be reduced to 22 wasps gradually. Consider if ducklings are inactive and flock – means, temperature low. If they well move, actively consume a forage – temperature normal. Ducklings open a beak, drink much, often breathe, dismiss wings – temperature needs to be reduced. In the first week duration of lighting there have to be 24 hours. From second week the light day decreases for an hour a day. As a result it has to make 9 hours. Preserve young growth in the first weeks of life against a draft and dampness, do not give too sticky bourgeoises who complicate breath of baby birds and litter nasal openings. Drinking bowls and feeding troughs have to be located so that all baby birds had free access in water and to a forage. Before feeding give to drink ducklings warm boiled water with addition of a small amount of permanganate of potassium. You feed young growth with the friable bourgeois, adding gradually more and more greens. Water is necessary not only for drink, but also for washing of a beak. It is possible to let out ducklings in a reservoir from 15-20 day age.
Keeping of ducks in the winter
The hen house for winter keeping of ducks is built as well as for hens. A difference only in the equipment. As feeding troughs use wooden backets. Ducks strongly scatter a forage, eat hasty therefore backets need to be filled only on a third. Feed ducks three times a day. The first two feedings have to consist of damp bourgeoises (bourgeoises can consist of grain, dried herbs, boiled potatoes, a nettle, pumpkin, a silo), for the night it is recommended to give germinated grain. Hen houses need to be aired often as air becomes suffocating from a crude dung, ducks from it can feel bad. When on the street it is not too cold, you hold windows slightly opened.
Cultivation of ducks in the summer
In summertime of ducks it is possible to contain under the canopy equipped with nests. To control norm of feeding it is necessary to know that ducks have to eat a damp forage in 40-50 minutes. If the bird eats a forage quicker, so the norm needs to be increased. Eat with summer of a duck leaves and fruits of weeds, a meadow grass, an animal forage (fish and meat waste, snails and worms, larvae and insects). If you do not let out a bird from the yard, then try to provide her with a variety of forages.