Indo-ducks have quite specific appearance, and thanks to the reddish head outgrowths emitting fat with a musk smell, this poultry received one more name – a musky duck. This breed of a bird by right is considered the best candidate for cultivation in private enterprise. But for cultivation of an Indo-duck it is necessary to study rules of leaving and maintenance.
It is required to you
- - logs;
- - perches;
- - wooden boards or cardboard boxes;
- - natural dense fabric;
- - trough;
- - vitamin and mineral complexes;
- - chalk, shells or shell of eggs;
- - lamp with the reflector;
- - hot-water bottle;
- - shaving or straw.
Instruction
1. Indo-ducks are thermophilic birds, they avoid bathing in cold water, but at the same time well transfer low temperatures in not warmed room. According to contents the musky ducks are very close to hens, do not demand special conditions. Prepare for a bird perches from logs which keep within one on another. Density of landing to one square meter has to be no more than three Indo-ducks. Musky ducks badly transfer the neighbourhood with other poultry.
2. For normal broods of baby birds it is necessary to prepare nests for hens. It is better to make them of a tree or cardboard boxes, lay natural dense fabric (burlap) on a bottom. Establish near nests a wide trough with clear water – for bathing and drink of a bird. Musky ducks independently watch purity of nests, humidify them, washing away parasites and various pollution.
3. Indo-ducks actually eat any food. In the summer the bird with great success is fattened on pastures, the green grass can serve as the only forage. Costs of a forage decrease if nearby there is a reservoir where birds are fed with insects and worms. It is necessary to prepare for musky ducks damp bourgeoises in the winter. Can enter a diet: small chopped green grass, a beet tops of vegetable, kitchen waste, grain, the wetted barley, corn. In cold season the deficiency of biologically active agents especially becomes aggravated, add vitamin and mineral complexes to the menu. Also macrocells are necessary for Indo-ducks for the correct development micro. It is possible to fill up calcium in an organism by means of chalk, shells, a shell from eggs. Shatter them in a small crumb and feed to a bird.
4. Musky ducks begin to lay eggs at the end of March – the beginning of April. The Indo-duck when she lays couple of dozen eggs nests. Daily take out eggs, mark (put date on a shell), overturn them. Baby birds for 30-35 day are brought. The first hour it is possible to leave them with mother, and then transfer to the house. You keep baby birds in a box under a bulb with the reflector, put a hot-water bottle. Lay a bottom shaving or straw (do not use sawdust as baby birds begin to eat them). You feed them with small cut egg hard-boiled. Next day it is possible to give semi-fluid porridge from milk and egg, the podsypta has some bran. It is necessary to feed baby birds forcibly.
5. Through couple of days the baby birds will begin to eat. For the third day you feed them with the cottage cheese cut with spinach and greens, a beet tops of vegetable, shredded grain. From the fourth day give the cut meat waste, from the tenth day it is allowed to enter boiled potatoes into food. Indo-ducks are bad mothers who quickly forget about children. It is possible to do without hen, baby birds well grow independently. It is important to save them in the first weeks from cold and dampness.