Today, many villagers bred ducks of various breeds tend to produce tender and tasty meat and eggs, down and feather.When choosing a breed for breeding essential viability and sustainability of poultry disease, how quickly it is gaining weight and, of course, how well its meat taste, and what are the advantages and disadvantages.Each year, the market offers consumers new, improved on various parameters of the rock.More recently, in the late 90s of the last century, there was a blue duck favorite.Description and main characteristics of this breed are presented below.
When and where appeared?
This breed was bred ducks in Bashkiria, in the tribal ptitsezavode Blagovarsky in 1998.It was based on the white Peking duck, which is a long time been crossed and selected.It was originally used for industrial breeding, but thanks to the excellent "performance" characteristics of the breed ducks blue favorite is increasingly found in the farms and in the ordinary rural farmsteads.Adults - a large bird with beautiful, smoky-blue color of the pen, which can vary from light to fairly dark tones.This is not a marriage, and this separation is due to the genetic characteristics of the breed.
Blue favorite - duck: description, photos
With its beautiful gray-blue plumage, these ducks are so called.In addition, the adult bird of this species differs dense, "stout" physique.She raised an elongated body with a broad and not very convex breast.Large head with rather long and flat beak situated on a neck of medium length.As mentioned above, the breed ducks favorite blue plumage can have different colors, which determines the color of the massive legs and beak of a bird.
Features
Recall that the diversity of breeds of domestic ducks in productivity is divided into three main areas: meat, obschepolzovatelskie (meat and egg) and egg.For meat type birds blue duck is a favorite.The description given by the breeders says that birds of this breed is good precocity and gaining weight.When the special fattening two months drake can dial up to 3 kg.During this period the bird uses the largest amount of food.In the future, the amount of food eaten by one individual is reduced, and the growth becomes more uniform.Meat from such ducks lean, which distinguishes it from the common species such as Beijing and Bashkir.Blue Duck favorite reviews of the owners confirm this, well tolerated as the heat and the winter cold.
Productivity
Most poultry farmers the main advantage of the favorite breeds of pigeons are considered a good weight gain and how quickly and easily they are fattened.So, by the time of puberty in 24-26 weeks, duck can weigh about five and a duck - up to 4 kg.Egg production
At the age of five to six months begins to bear blue duck favorite.Description Eggs:
- average weight - about 90 grams;
- pleasant, delicate and mild flavor;
- in the season can be obtained from 100 to 150, and year - 220-250 pieces.
Features and care
important for poultry farmers characteristic blue duck favorite - her endurance and unpretentiousness.Unlike many other breeds, breeding this bird will approach a normal pen, and did not need to spend time and energy on building and special equipment utyatnika.Immunity in these ducks strong, allowing them quite easy to adapt to different climatic conditions.The quality of meat and egg production is not affected by hot or cold, with the exception of extreme values.
Training places for young
Before you buy young, it is necessary to prepare the premises, tools and a place for walking.Before starting the chicks in the room where they will live, it is necessary to carry out wet cleaning and disinfect walls, equipment and tools with hot 3% solution of soda ash.Space reserved for walking ducklings need to align and sprinkle a layer of sand 5 cm.
growing ducklings
Once you have purchased and brought home, be sure to Napo from the pipette is very weak solution of potassium permanganate (potassium permanganate) chicks rock blue favorite (duck).Description, photo ducklings you see below.Then the ducks are placed in a warm, with temperatures from + 200C to + 300C, the room, near a heat source.For normal growth and development of the poultry must be illuminated for 16 hours a day, using special lights or incandescent.As bedding for calves can be used straw or hay.How well organized ducklings heating, it can be judged by their behavior if they are active and cheerful, a lot of moving or sitting, not curled up "into a ball" - the temperature is quite normal.If it is too hot, then any young duck blue favorite, which you carry out the cultivation, demonstrate his heavy breathing, very different from the usual.If the chicks cold, they will scream loud enough, "hang out" in one place and push each other.
What and how to feed?
not very pretentious or capricious in terms of food duck blue favorite.Feeding these birds will not be difficult even for novice fanciers.Ducklings first time give the shredded duck or chicken eggs, and a week added to the feed finely chopped grass, dandelion leaves or nettles.During the first month you can give to the young low-fat cottage cheese and milk.As they get older birds are introduced into the diet of succulent food, like carrots, clover, potatoes, enriched milled chalk or seashells.At the age of one month can be transferred to the young corn mixture.If the ducks are able to pluck the grass, as well as access to a pond, a portion of their food, they will produce their own.Feed the birds breed blue the favorite should be 2-3 times a day.The first reception is better to give a variety of wet food mixed in the evening - germinated seeds.Ducks should be permanently available additives such as crushed limestone, shells, chalk, egg shells.In addition, fine gravel promotes normal digestion of these birds.
Water regime
For small ducklings need water with a temperature of about + 200C.When installing drinkers, should be placed away from their feeders as chick chewing food, try to drink it immediately.If it succeeds, then some of the food simply wash off with water, and without getting into the bird's stomach.Adult individuals need fresh and clean water to clean the nostrils clogged food and rinse beak.It is best to place the liquid in a few not very wide, but deep tanks.The depth of the troughs should be such that it could put its head duck blue favorite.Description of this bird makes it impossible to predict the desired size, so the production will have to focus on the size of your pet.
Advantages and disadvantages
Most owners, distributing blue rock favorite, it notes the following positive features:
- High viability and survival of the young.
- Quiet and smooth behavior.
- good health and excellent immunity.
- ruggedness, ease of maintenance and care.
- high adaptability to any conditions.
- good egg.
- high speed feeding.
- Profitability breeding, like a bird of this species large and ripening.
- Lean meat tender with a wonderful flavor.
Blue Duck favorite, reviews of which are quite numerous, has, in the opinion of Poultry Farmers, just one, but significant drawback: it is almost completely absent instinct of hatching eggs.Because of this, for ducklings have to be used to enclose an egg incubators or poultry and other breeds of ducks.In rare cases, ducks favorite blue "wakes up" this instinct, and then the bird during the time of incubation, which is 27-28 days, almost out of the slot.Wean it is extremely rare and very small periods of time, only to drink and eat.For every duck, feeling hen can sit up to 15 ducklings, and grow, and all 30 alien chicks hooked to any domestic birds should be on the same day when the hatch "native".If you try to make a "shares," at other times, the hen will not accept them and just thrown out of the nest.The peculiarity of this breed is that the hen is not only plucks at the fluff to insulate their nest, but also actively losing feathers.This should not be afraid, because it's a natural and quite normal for blue ducks favorite process.
