Ducks - a great option for cultivation as poultry. They are not strongly exacting to food and seldom are ill. Besides for short terms the ducklings give good gain in weight.
To grow up a strong and healthy bird, it is important to exercise since her birth judgment in a question of feeding. Ducks can be bred with use of a reservoir by them or if that is not available on the site, it is possible also without it.
Forage for the least ducklings
Just hatched ducklings of sterns are not given. The fact is that egg where they were until hatching, contain nutrients thanks to which ducklings can be 1-2 days without food. And here without water you should not hold them to avoid organism dehydration.
When feeding daily ducklings it is necessary to observe them whether they eat food. That ducklings learned to eat, chopped eggs to them fill on backs, and then his friend from the friend will begin to peck young growth. If ducklings not and drink, then can die. To avoid it, they need to pour in the water diluted with potassium permanganate, very weak solution from the pipette. The same will be suitable for the least ducklings of sterns that is given to chickens. That is the hard-boiled chicken or duck eggs small chopped or passed via the meat grinder have to enter it. This forage is displayed in small tray feeding troughs or on dense paper. In the latter case paper is replaced with new daily. Within the first week of life of sterns the ducklings are given 6-7 times in the small portions. Here skim cheese, boiled egg and dairy products have to enter. At the same age slowly enter into structure of a forage and a fresh chopped nettle. Do not forget to give to baby birds clear water daily.
What to feed the grown-up ducklings with
On the second week of life add the welded root crops to a forage. From them train the bourgeois to whom add millet and greens. That ducklings grew healthy, they need to add calcium. It can be prepared as follows: small mill an egg shell or bones, it is possible to take as initial material and a shell. Bourgeoises it is possible to prepare on milk or meat broth. Clean milk is not recommended to be given as ducklings will spray it more, than will drink. The grown-up baby birds can add also small cut fruit. From monthly age they are given the granulated forage. As additive also the processed fish waste which contain many useful nutrients for the growing-up ducklings will approach. Stale, not mouldy crusts of black bread soak water and give to young growth. It is recommended to add seeds of an orach or a horse sorrel to various bourgeoises. In process of growth of baby birds, they are fed less than week, and gradually pass to 3-times food. With approach of heat it is possible to release young growth in a reservoir. Here they will find for themselves the additional power supply. If there is no reservoir on the site, ducklings can be let out on a free pasture on a grassy glade or a luzhok. They with pleasure will nibble a small grass. In rainy weather to ducklings mow greens and give to open-air cages where they contain. Maintenance and cultivation of ducklings is favorable business even on the seasonal dacha, on condition of accommodation daily there.