Musky duck - a bird unpretentious, therefore convenient to cultivation in our climatic conditions. It is grown up, both on large farms, and on small country farmsteads. Sometimes it can even be seen during a summer season at dachas.
The musky duck at us is called an Indo-duck. This bird to us came from Caribbean countries where originally she was grown up by local Indian tribes. Here from where its second name appeared.
Unlike white ducks, at a musky duck the plumage rigid, is practically absent down. Therefore from her also do not collect down and feathers which are intended for production of pillows and feather-beds. Meat at a duck is very useful also nutritious, contains not enough fat, fast that favourably she distinguishes from an ordinary duck. On this indicator it practically a little in what differs from a wild duck. Meat of a musky duck contains different useful vitamins and minerals from which vitamins of group B and nonsaturated Omega-3 fatty acids are most distinguished in the structure. These substances and elements make favorable impact on a cardiovascular system.
The duck grows quickly, is not choosy to sterns and conditions of the contents. Various greens enter its diet: herbs, cabbage, beet tops of vegetable. But at the same time, if you want the duck to grow quickly enough and added in weight, then not to do you without feeding by her duck grades compound feed or usual bread. At the balanced food of the weight, sufficient for slaughter, the duck reaches by the beginning of winter. The duck who wintered will be capable to lay eggs - same tasty, as well as chicken, but more useful to health. They contain more protein, amino acids, massivny, than eggs. The Yaytsenoskost at a duck is higher chicken that allows many owners to replace with them hens.
The musky duck has excellent health, resistant immunity to various diseases, but at the same time badly transfers excessive humidity. It is not recommended to it to provide the place for bathing or swimming also. In spite of the fact that it concerns waterfowl, visit by a duck of container with water on the site can lead to a disease.
Musky duck - a friendly bird, it can be grown up on a bird's farmstead both with hens, and with geese, and with other ducks. Besides, the duck has excellent quality – she does not grunt, and hisses, thereby does not create excessive noise.
Though the musky duck and the cultivated bird, at it remained ability to fly. To avoid problems that the duck will fly over a fencing of a farmstead and will get to neighbors or on a kitchen garden, you need to clip once a year to it wings. And it is necessary to clip one wing to debalance preflight orientation. If to clip two wings, then a duck, though it is not really far, will be able to fly after all.
Slaughter of a bird on meat happens, as a rule, in the winter when duck meat has rich taste and contains the maximum quantity of useful nutritious elements. Try to get also you at yourself a musky duck. And then on your New Year's table there will be a refined dish – the duck baked in an oven.