Feeding of an Indo-duck is an important stage on the way of cultivation of strong and healthy birds. Arrangement of cages, the correct publicizing and the organization of walking is an integral part in cultivation too, but the qualitative and balanced food will help to reduce risk of a disease and will accelerate growth of a bird and also will increase nutrition value of meat.
Instruction
1. The first day of life of a duckling – the most important stage. The earlier you will begin the first feeding of a baby bird, rather the yolk remains in an organism will resolve. After the first feeding the digestive tract will begin the activity what the correct digestion of nutrients depends further on. In the first day of ducklings it is necessary to feed with boiled egg, it is necessary to chop it small. It is impossible to give to drink to baby birds plain water. Before giving it is necessary to add a little potassium permanganate that it got a light pink shade to water.
2. Certainly, in the first day of the life the duckling itself will not eat and drink as he understands nothing yet. It is very important to show to each duckling what what the hostess gave him, it is necessary to eat or drink. Best of all ducklings react to a moving forage. Perfectly the technique of a posypaniye of egg crumbs on backs of baby birds works. They run, crumbs are showered from them, and fellows with great pleasure will collect food which just fell from a back of another. Do the same also with gooses. And here to tap on a pallet with food it is useless, it works only with chickens.
3. You should tinker with a poyeniye. Here it is necessary not only on a bowl with water to knock that water began ""to move"". You should pick up each duckling and to dip a beak into water. As soon as someone from ducklings independently drinks, the others with pleasure will run up to a drinking bowl and by an example of the fellows will begin to drink too.
4. So far ducklings will not be ten days old a joy, it is necessary to feed them not less than 6-8 times a day. From 10 to 25-30 days it will be necessary to feed them 4-5 times a day. And after it will execute month, it is possible to reduce feeding to 3-4 times a day. Next day a joy ducklings can pour oat, corn or barley flour in the crushed egg. For the third day you can add the crushed nettle greens to the mix described above, having mixed with fish or bone meal. Further it will be possible to enter gradually low-fat broths, meat waste in the crushed look into this mash and whey.
5. It is very important to know that any damp mix of a forage surely has to be friable. If a forage sticky, it can hammer nasal passes, and it often leads to inflammatory diseases. Drinking bowls with water need to be put not further, than on one and a half meters from feeding troughs. Musky ducks (in common people of an Indo-duck) constantly moisten beaks during the use of a forage. Any forages have to be always fresh without hint on a mold or fermentation. Dairy waste gives to ducklings only after full ferment.
6. From twenty-day age the ducklings can enter the mashed boiled potatoes into a diet. It is necessary to add it to structure of a mash in number of about 20% of mix. At forty-day age you can begin to accustom the ducklings to whole grain. Certainly, at first it needs to be mixed in with which fed before, and then it is already possible to give separately in the last feeding (for the night).
7. It is necessary to admit ducklings to open water not earlier, than to them month will knock a joy. The thing is that from this age at them coccygeal gland which excretes fat for greasing of feathers begins to function. Otherwise at them down at contact with water will become wet, and it will lead to overcooling and death of baby birds.
8. Of course, Indo-ducks can quite do also without walking, but if you have an opportunity to let out them on a natural reservoir, it will lower costs of a forage even of 30%. Before letting out a bird on a reservoir, make sure that water temperature – is not lower than 10 degrees.