Ducks in manor farms keep, of courseless often than chickens. However, such a bird is very popular with summer residents, farmers and villagers. The advantages of these waterfowl birds include primarily unpretentious care and high productivity. But, of course, successful breeding of ducks will be only with proper care for them.
It is possible to breed meat and meat-egg ducks in suburban areas. The main advantage of the rocks of the first group is a quick weight gain. In 2-4 months, a broiler bird can reach 4-5 kg.
Meat-egg ducks do not grow so fast.Their carcasses usually weigh much less than broilers. However, such birds carry more eggs and are less whimsical in terms of diet and housing conditions.
Very often the owners of suburban areasbred on their farms and indoutok. Such a bird also boasts a fairly quick weight gain. At the same time, in comparison with other varieties of indoutki, they have one important advantage - not too fatty and very tasty meat.
Every variety of domestic ducks hasway, its merits. Owners of suburban areas who already have experience in maintaining such living creatures and wanting to quickly get a lot of meat should get a broiler. Novice farmers can practice on some more unpretentious breed. So owners of farmsteads, most likely, for the beginning is worth buying meat and egg chicks. Indo-juries are perfect for both experienced farmers and beginners.
Breeds of ducks of all directions of productivity have been bred a lot by breeders. So the farmer should have no particular problems with the choice in this regard.
The best duck meat breeds today are:
Also farmers, including Russian ones, breed such ducks as:
Quite often in the farmsteads of the ownersYou can also see clay, gray or white Ukrainian ducks in suburban areas of the post-Soviet space. A bird of this breed can weigh up to 3.5 kg. Ukrainian ducks are popular with farmers, also because of their thick plumage. Such a bird is not afraid of the cold.
Novice farmers should consider purchasing:
Such a bird is also called musk.On farms, both domestic and wild indoutki can be divorced. Such a bird differs mainly in the color of its plumage. In the farms of different countries, including in Russia, indoutki are found:
Some species of musk ducks maygain weight up to 5 kg. At the same time in the care of such a bird is relatively unpretentious. Feeding and keeping musk ducks is a simple matter. Birds of this variety are grown using the same technology as ordinary breeds.
The bird of this breed recently in Russianfarmers is becoming increasingly popular. They represent a mixture of meat Peking ducks with musks. The advantages of this breed, farmers include low-fat tasty meat, as well as the ability to very quickly gain a lot of weight.
По продуктивности такие утки могут превосходить even the famous Beijing. Adult birds of this breed gain weight up to 5.5 kg, and with the right content, up to 7-8 kg. By the third month of keeping, the weight of this bird reaches 4 kg.
The productivity indicators of these waterfowl depend very much on how well their diet is compiled. It is also important to follow the schedule of feeding birds.
You can make a duck mixer, for example, like this:
Also a good option for feeding ducks will be such a mixture:
Recipes for ducks there are many. But in any case, the finished mixture for this bird should not be sticky. Otherwise, the noses will be clogged during feeding.
Blend these waterfowl feed 1-2 times aday. Crushed dry concentrates should be at the trough ducks constantly. This is especially true for poultry meat breeds. Ducks of this productivity group should be able to eat at any time.
A shed for such waterfowl is built at the rate of at least 1 m2 areas for 2-3 heads.It is desirable to build a duckling on a high place. The room in any case should be completely dry. When erecting a duckling, you should also take care that there will be no drafts in it later on.
As a material for the walls of the house canchoose timber and board, brick, foam blocks. The main thing is that the walls of the duckling should be warm enough. Floors in these sheds are usually simply poured with concrete. To keep the ducks from freezing, they use straw as bedding.
Of course, in the built for the bird shed shouldbe sure to conduct electricity. Too much light utyatnik not needed. For a small house, for example, just one bright light bulb will suffice.
For airing in the barn you need to provideOf course, the window. In the event that ducks are supposed to be kept in winter, electric heaters should be installed in the house, or, for example, a small stove.
Of course, you should equip the matfeeders. Capacities for mash and crushed concentrates are best to make from tin. This will facilitate the care of the feeders afterwards. Experienced poultry farmers do not recommend drinking bowls directly in the duck house. Such containers are usually placed in an open-air aviary near the house.
Ducks are known to love water.They can try to swim, including in drinking bowls. Therefore, if such structures are installed directly in the shed, the bird will breed damp. And this, in turn, can lead to the development of various kinds of diseases.
Chicks of this bird are hatched usually in simple chicken incubators. The devices of this variety of many brands are complemented with special grids designed specifically for waterfowl eggs.
The incubation mode for this bird looks like this:
Within 26 days, the eggs in the incubator are turned 4-6 times a day. Then this operation is stopped.
Breeding ducks is relatively simple.However, care for hatched ducklings, of course, must be carried out correctly. At first, the chicks are fed 4-5 times a day with mashed potatoes of chopped eggs and cottage cheese with the addition of kefir. After a couple of days, they are offered some greenery.
Weekly ducklings fed feed with the addition ofcottage cheese, kefir, finely chopped nettle. Around the second or third week, when the chicks fled, they can be released to the reservoir. It is not recommended to allow ducklings to swim in the event that they are raised without a hen. The fact is that the fledgling waterfowl chicks still do not have subcutaneous fat. In the water, the ducklings simply overcool. And because of this, in turn, the chicks can get sick and even die.
If there is no reservoir near the farm, in the diet2-3 weeks old ducklings should increase the amount of green feed. Ideally, from this time on, the young need to start feeding, including duckweed. The number of offered ducklings cottage cheese at this time reduced. Fully on an adult diet chicks transferred at the age of 3-4 weeks.
Long enough in farms usually keeponly ducks-producers. Young animals grown for meat are slaughtered at the age of 2.5-3 months. It is simply unprofitable to keep such ducks longer. From 4 months, these waterfowl begin to consume a lot of feed. In this case, the bird gains weight not too fast.
In any case, it is necessary to score ducksjuvenile molting. If you do this later, the birds' carcasses, unfortunately, lose their presentation due to the numerous rough hemp. In addition, it will be difficult to process them.
Перед убоем уток обычно не кормят в течение 12-16 hours Water is given to the bird in unlimited quantities. Actually, he is slaughtered by cutting the carotid artery. Experienced farmers advise to pluck the carcass no earlier than 2 hours after this procedure.
