Content ducks in the garden - it is very profitable.In the year of only one individual can receive more than 100 eggs and about 50 ducklings.Of course, the cultivation of ducks for meat at home - a procedure that requires compliance with certain rules.In particular, they need to stick to those who have decided to breed the bird in order to obtain additional income.In this review we'll need to know the novice businessman and how to create their own business.
Which breed to choose: musk duck
Of course, starting a business should be to select species of birds.One of the reasons is not too high popularity of duck meat on the market is its fat content.Therefore, in recent years, farmers are increasingly paying attention to this breed as musk.Meat ducks in these lean and still juicy.
beak under or over the individuals of the breed musk arranged red leather growths.Plumage is they usually white or black and white.Because of the unusual appearance of the people of these birds called indoutkami.Weight of adult ducks that breed can reach 2.5 kg.Drakes grow bigger - up to 5 kg.This bird - an ideal option if you decide to do such a thing as growing ducks for meat at home.Photos birds breed musk see below.
Moscow White
This relatively new breed was obtained by crossing Peking ducks hakikempbellami.One of its distinguishing features is a long head and a beak.The weight of this breed drakes can reach 4 kg, ducks - 3.5 kg.One of the indisputable advantages of the Moscow White is a delicious tender meat.
Ukrainian rock
These birds are in backyard farms are also quite common.Color them can be gray, white or clay.The most common variant of the latter.Weight drakes Ukrainian - an average of 3.5 kg, ducks - 2.5 kg.In the year of the single hen can produce up to 220 eggs.
What should be the aviary
course, growing duck meat at home is possible only if there is a pretty spacious barn.Birdman can be carcass, cobbled, stone, and so on. D. The floor of the barn is better to make stone or brick.Small animals - ferrets, mice, rats, and so on. D. - Ducks can hurt very easily.Before laying the bricks in the house the ground must be carefully sealed.
top of a solid floor arrange a soft cloth.Make it can be made of hay, straw or sawdust.You can also sleep in the shed floor dry sand.Be sure to arrange in utyatnike climbing above the floor.They are necessary to ensure that the bird was free to enter the barn and leave him.
In utyatnike need to install feeders, drinkers, and nest.Beside him arrange a small fenced corral.There is also need to put a couple of drinkers and trough.The first can be made of buckets (not galvanized) prikopat them in the ground.As feeders usually establish special trough.It is important to choose their size.On one head should fall about 10 cm perimeter rim.Drinkers should be deep enough so that the bird could wash out the nasal openings.
dimensions of the shed determined based on the fact that 2-3 ducks should account for about one square meter of space.
Nest
farmers, ask questions about how to grow ducks for meat in the home, should be aware of and what should be the nest at this bird.Duck eggs are slightly smaller than females.However, special places for laying in the barn provided, of course, necessary.Nests for ducks are fairly large size - 50h50h35.They represent a common crates covered with straw bottom.
basic rules of detention
Of course, those who have decided to breed this bird as a business, you need to be aware of how to take care of it.First of all, it should be borne in mind that the cultivation of duck meat at home - a procedure requiring mandatory compliance regime.On this depends the productivity of poultry.Typically, household farms practiced this method:
- morning bird released in the pond.Open utyatnik can be no earlier than 10 hours.Birds' eggs are usually in the morning.
- After 5-6 hours ducks herded into the paddock to feed.
- then release them again in the pond.
- evening before going to sleep again trough filled with food.
At night, the bird driven to the barn.Soon duck get used to this routine, and do come from a reservoir to the poultry house at the time of feeding.
Slaughter
Growing ducks for meat as a business - it is quite advantageous.For the season, if desired, can grow 3-4 brood.All summer ducks as chickens, do not hold.They are usually clog up the first juvenile molt - at 50-60 days of age.Carcasses of these ducks have a presentation, as they are no stumps.There is another reason for the early slaughter - purely economic.The fact that up to two months of age the number of forage spent per individual for a month, is only around 2.5-5.5 kg depending on the age of the bird.Individuals begin to have a more mature a lot, gaining fat.By 3-5 months.ducks already supposed to give up to 20-25 kg of feed.Two-month ducklings weigh about two kilograms, six-month - 4 kg.So keep ducks more than 2.5-3 months.inappropriate.
All summer the same litter can hold only if the farm is located on the bank of a pond where ducks can get a sufficient amount of food on their own.However, in this case, many owners of such businesses prefer to hammer the bird before.Larger meat ducks are usually too fat.
Growing duck meat at home: feeding
As already mentioned, the food of the bird is usually given twice a day.In the morning you can feed concentrated feed (Crushed).In the evening, give the mash.The latter may consist of fresh herbs, roots, vegetables, and so on. D. You can also use the kitchen waste, whey, meat and bone or fish meal, minerals and so on. D.
share of grain and powdery in the diet of ducks should be about 80%.The remaining 20% are wet mash and various additives.
How to get ducklings
question of how to grow ducks for meat, including amounts and how you can get your own young.Hen these birds are not as good as chickens.However, some individuals per egg did sit.The way out can be found in the event that none of the duck does not.Very often, simply enclose the eggs under the chickens.Young duck is displayed for only a few days later the chickens.
Caring for kids is chicken.But the pond young, educate klushkoy not normally produce.Kind of floating "chick" is very traumatic for the psyche of the hen.In any case, kids run into the pond, if they are grown without the ducks, it is impossible as long as they do not come down and will not present plumage.The fact that the fat in very young chicks no.Therefore, they can easily catch a cold.
Sometimes ducklings get in incubators.In this case, they will bring up a little more complicated.But still worth a try.Laying eggs in the incubator, you have to be prepared for the fact that the chicks would display far from all of them.Out of young anyway (under the duck, chicken or incubator) is usually not more than 50%.The fact that the protein of duck eggs have antibacterial substances.As a result, many embryos die under development.
Care ducklings
course, youngsters of this bird, like any other, it is necessary to provide the optimal conditions for growth and development.Immediately after hatching utyatok usually are entered into a warm room, and contain a few days at a temperature of not less than 20-25 grams.However, it will be better to put them all in the same box or cell (20-25 pieces per 1m2), heated to not less than 30 m.To achieve this temperature, you can use conventional incandescent bulbs.They are placed in the lattice cells.Three weeks ducklings are seated in different zagonchik such that per square meter of them had not more than 12 pieces.By this time the temperature is reduced to 16-18 m.(gradually).Lighting newborn arrange laundry.By the age of three-week duration should be about 16 hours.
How to grow ducks for meat.What to feed the chicks
The diet of newly hatched ducklings usually includes boiled eggs and finely fragmented oat groats.From the second - the third day of life in the diet includes cottage cheese and 5-6 - finely chopped herbs and aquatic vegetation (in a ratio of about 0.5h1).With ten age mash ducklings can already add the potatoes and finely chopped root vegetables.
At first, the kids give food 6-8 times a day.Starting from the 10th day until the age of one month to reduce the number of feedings 5-6, further - up to 2-4 times a day.
Content ducks winter
privateers rearing ducks for meat at the cottage in the summer is practiced more often.Farmers same-breeding this bird carcasses for sale, usually keep it in the winter.At this time of the year for the successful cultivation must follow certain rules.
feed the birds in winter not two, but at least three times a day.Morning and afternoon give mash in the evening - cereals.Cold duck tolerate quite well.However, to prevent that the temperature in the house dropped below 5 degrees, it is impossible.You should also protect the ducks from drafts.If the litter in the barn will be crude, they will decrease egg production.Therefore, on the floor in the house must be periodically pour dry hay or sawdust.In this case, in the lower layers will be putrefaction with heat.
in the pond for swimming ducks in the winter time it is possible to make the hole.The complexity of its equipment consists primarily in the fact that the bird to prevent the ice, it is necessary to protect the edge of the grid.But you can keep ducks in the cold season and without bathing.
To better duck flew in the house should arrange additional lighting.Lamps include the mornings and evenings.Do not reduce egg laying ducks in the winter only if the coverage for at least 14 hours a day.
What should pool
Sometimes this bird include land and means (in cages or enclosures).This method is practiced in the event that made the cultivation of ducks for meat in industrial environments.But for small farms free range is still considered preferable.Waters intended for this bird should have a pretty large area and small depth.Ducks dive very well and can get food from the bottom up to 1 m. It is not recommended to arrange the area very deep waters.In this case, duck droppings, sinking to the bottom - where no mixed layer of water - begins to rot from the release of methane.As a result, little lake "blooms."The flow-through ponds the stocking density of ducks can be significantly reduced.
Useful tips
And finally, give a few recommendations that may be useful for beginners poultry farmers, businessmen:
- daily routine for ducks should observe mandatory.Otherwise, the bird will reduce productivity.
- can not translate ducks in another room at the onset of the laying period.Otherwise molt a bird may begin.Eggs duck while postponing cease.
- bird is very shy.Therefore, you need to treat it with care.
As you can see, growing duck meat at home - it is not particularly difficult.The main thing - to arrange a convenient bird barn right to develop and adhere to a diet regime.In this case, you can get a season dozens of kilograms of tasty, clean and expensive duck meat.
