It is beneficial to keep the Indo-duck for several reasons. These birds gain weight quickly enough and do not need a reservoir. With proper maintenance, Indo-women rarely get sick, and the taste of their meat is difficult to overestimate. This fact is confirmed by the fact that Indo-women are bred in almost all European countries. We will consider how to grow an indigenous girl on our own at home, but first we will find out why they should be planted in our poultry yard.
Indo-women
Indoor features
The described birds are gaining weight very quickly, which makes it possible to consider growing indochoke at home even as a small business. With proper care and proper nutrition, the bird can be slaughtered after 2 months. By this time, she is able to gain more than 2 kg of weight.
Young growth practically does not get sick, which is specific exclusively for indigenous women. Chicks of chickens, geese and turkeys do not have the strongest immunity and are susceptible to a number of diseases. But it should be noted that in violation of sanitary standards, talking about 100% survival of young animals is extremely presumptuous. In order for the young not to get sick, he needs to provide good living conditions and properly feed.
Indoor women have a good appetite. These birds will not go through food, they will feast on any proposed food, which greatly simplifies the cultivation of Indo-Ducks at home. Also simplifies the maintenance of this poultry its resistance to frost. Indo-ducks tolerate even the coldest winter well and practically do not react to temperature changes.
Unlike ducks, who need a pond to gain weight, an indolek can be kept on land.
Before you get small ducklings, you need to decide on the place of their maintenance. In a standard cage, adult birds will be crowded, but you can make one that is sized according to the norms. But here also there is a difficulty: it is almost impossible to regulate the temperature at the cellular content, therefore it is better to build a house that will protect the indigenous from any weather. It is enough to equip a barn where the bird can hide from the weather, and an open-air cage for walking. The aviary is equipped with a canopy, under which birds can hide on hot sunny days.
It should be noted that Indo-Ducks are not shy, unlike most domestic birds.
Features of breeding Indo-ducks
Indoor breeding is a simple process. Depending on the availability of time and the desire to tinker with the incubator, you can buy eggs or buy young animals. For beginners, the second option is more acceptable, since working with an incubator requires certain skills. In addition, good equipment is quite expensive. If you are going to constantly maintain an Indoor, then the cost of the purchased equipment will pay off after a few tabs.
Chicks should not be bought in the spring, as many poultry farmers do, but in the fall. Since Indo-ducks have strong immunity, the chicks will be able to survive the winter well, and in the spring there will be good young animals running in the yard, which will not take much time to gain weight. In addition, in the spring it will already be possible to get the first eggs. You can buy not chicks, but young ducks, but the cost of young animals is much higher than the cost of chicks, so from an economic point of view it is more profitable to purchase them.
The brood of the Indochina consists of 15-20 chicks. It is worth giving birds the opportunity to enjoy the delights of motherhood, because they are good at it.
Growing in an incubator is challenging. Until the hatching of the chicks, the eggs must be systematically turned over. If the equipment is not automated, then it will have to be done manually. In addition, you need to constantly maintain a certain temperature and humidity level. In contrast, an Indo-female will hatch eggs and take care of chicks without assistance.
Drake selection
To breed birds, the farm must have a drake. The drake should be selected carefully, otherwise it will not work to admire large ducklings. From the first month of life, it is important for an indigenous to observe them. The most lively male, who gains weight in a matter of days and is the first to come to the trough, should become a leader.
Puberty occurs at the age of 7-8 months. From this moment on, the drake tramples the ducks. Most often, females reach sexual maturity faster, so one drake should be left from the previous brood. During the rearing of the new leader, ducks are already starting to rush, so you can work in terms of breeding birds.
If the duck rises from the nest and refuses to hatch offspring, you need to find a reason for this behavior. It lies either at the wrong age, or in a poorly equipped nest. In this case, you need to see who is ready to hatch eggs, and try to plant an individual of the appropriate age on the nest. The best option is the duck, which at least once bred offspring. With the right approach, it can be put on the nest in a matter of days: after hatching the chicks, it will carefully monitor the ducklings.
Poultry house arrangement
Before you decide to start an Indoor, you need to take care of arranging a special room called a poultry house. The only drawback of this bird is that it does not get along well with its own birds and animals. She needs a separate room. If this condition is not met, Indo-women eat poorly, which negatively affects not only weight gain, but also health.
It's easy to build a poultry house with your own hands. This is a small room, so there is no need to build a powerful foundation. During construction, you can use the most affordable building materials - wooden boards. The house should be warm in winter and cool in summer, so it is important to choose the right construction site. If possible, she should be in the shade. You also need to take care of the absence of drafts that adversely affect the health of the bird.
The house should have an artificial light source, well thought out ventilation and well-equipped nests for laying eggs. The weak point of indolets or, as they are also called, musky ducks are the legs, so the house should always have a dry and clean litter. During the construction of the shed, it is not out of place to think that the litter will have to be changed often enough, and this process should not be associated with any difficulties (low ceiling, for example).
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As for the size of the room, it depends on the number of birds that it contains. During construction, in addition to how many muscovy ducks you will keep in the first year, you should consider whether you plan to increase the number of livestock. For 1 square. m, a female with 8 chicks can feel comfortable.
Indoor content
The process of growing indochka at home involves the organization of food and bird care. First of all, you need to understand that an indochka can fly. So that the bird does not fly away from the bird's yard, its wings are cut (the first phalanx). This should be done on the 30th day of bird life. You can clip the wings even at an older age, but then there is a chance that the Indo-duck will stop laying eggs.
Nutrition of young animals
If the chicks were bred in an incubator, then they will have to be taught to eat. The peculiarity of this peculiar bird is that instinctively it eats everything that moves, so the first food is placed on the back of the chicks - they collect it from each other from the back during movement. The first food for ducklings is boiled eggs, which are pre-chopped. If the chicks do not notice the food, they need to point to it.
Already on the second day, after the chicks hatch, a mash is added to the diet. It is boiled in milk, bran is added to the finished mixture. On the 4th day, the diet is replenished with cottage cheese, pre-chopped grain, herbs (onions, spinach). On the 5th add meat waste, and on the 14th - boiled potatoes.
You need to think over the diet in advance. The nutrition of the chicks should be varied: this contributes to the rapid weight gain.
Adult Bird Feeding
The diet of an adult muscovy duck, like a chick, should be varied. Care must be taken to ensure that the birds receive all the necessary mineral supplements (phosphorus, calcium, etc.). The rate of weight gain and egg productivity depends on how correctly the nutrition is organized.
Grain crops (barley, corn, millet, wheat) make up a large half of the diet. They are relatively inexpensive, and the owners of home gardens can grow them on their own. If you give the livestock cereals, you can do without special feeds offered by stores. In addition to cereal crops, vegetables, greens, which are crushed before serving, and bran should be present in the diet. Indoor women love wet mash, but they are perishable, so they are prepared just before serving, and everything that remains in the bowls after eating is thrown away.
Indians also feed on various small insects (bugs, worms), so you need to give pets the opportunity to walk in the open. It is desirable that the aviary be spacious and mobile. A bird that lives with free grazing should receive additional food twice a day. What the diet will consist of depends on what the birds can find in the aviary.
Mineral supplements
Also, the diet should be rich in mineral supplements, but it is not at all necessary to purchase these supplements in specialized stores in the form of vitamin complexes. You can replace them with more affordable and cheaper products. So, for example, chalk and a shell rock contains calcium necessary for feathered. In addition to calcium, these substances contain vitamins. Poultry houses note that in the presence of chalk in the diet, an Indo-duck egg has a stronger and thicker shell.
It is imperative to include meat and bone meal rich in phosphorus in the diet. Salt, previously dissolved in water and added to a wet mash, saturates the body with sodium. And sulfur, necessary during molting, is found in cabbage, legumes, and flax cake.
As soon as spring arrives, the birds are released into the street and left there for the whole day. If there is a green lawn, the musk duck will find all the trace elements necessary for the body in green forage and soil.
Indoor content
Caring for birds will not take much time and effort, but you need to monitor the birds. Indo-duck women are curious. Accordingly, if they are released on a non-fenced area, they can go very far from home. It should also be noted that the indochka pays attention to everything brilliant. Often, when finding out why the birds are dying, it turns out that they have eaten a nail or other metal object (pin, wire, etc.), therefore, before letting the wards out for a walk in a specially designated area, they must be carefully examined.
“Heavy” air has a negative effect on the state of birds, so the house should be systematically ventilated. It is advisable to do this during the absence of birds in the room. If the musk ducks are in the house, then it is important to take care that no drafts are formed during ventilation.
In order not to be stuffy in the house, you need to follow the norms for placing your own birds in the barn. So, for 1 square. m. there can be no more than 3 adults. Otherwise, duck ducks will step on each other. It is impossible to organize proper care for them in such a condition. The house should be equipped with perches made of wood. It is also desirable to make the nest of wood. An alternative can be dense cardboard.
Indo-duck herself monitors the cleanliness of her feathers, but for this she needs water, so a trough with water is installed in the poultry house, which will allow not only rinsing the wings, but also taking a feathered bath. It is important to monitor the purity of the water in the trough, since the birds will not only swim there, but also drink water. In the winter, the water trough is removed from the house. The sebaceous glands, both in the drake and in the fair sex, are poorly developed - bathing in winter can lead to feathered colds.
It is forbidden to give birds hot water or food during the winter period: they must be warm.
Indoor breeding as a business
This activity brings money when the tribe consists of 100 individuals or more. You can sell not only feathered meat, but also their eggs. You can also sell chicks and young animals, sell drakes and Indo-ducks in live weight. For a business to be profitable, you need to take care of having a customer base. It is most beneficial to cooperate with restaurants that are willing to pay good money for quality red meat and constantly need a product. Despite the high calorie content of meat, it is considered dietary, and its taste allows it to be used for preparing delicious dishes.
Individuals buy meat, as a rule, only before the holidays, so it makes no sense to consider them as main customers.
In addition to meat, people are engaged in the trade of feathers, which are neatly plucked after the slaughter of birds. They are used to make pillows and blankets. Feathers and down of musky ducks are taken in large enough volumes, so you will have to store these products until the desired volume is collected, at home. This activity cannot be considered as the main income, since no one will give a lot of money for feathers and down, however, this income will be enough to cover the cost of bird food.
Common Indoor Disease
As mentioned above, if you take proper care of the birds, they rarely get sick, but this happens, so you need to look closely at the birds and, if necessary, treat them. With the timely detection of diseases, problems can be avoided during treatment.
The most common diseases found in musky ducks are:
- avitaminosis;
- poisoning;
- paratyphoid;
- hepatitis.
Let's take a closer look at how these diseases can be caused and how to treat them.
Avitaminosis
During breeding, farmers often face a problem such as vitamin deficiency. The nature of this disease is clear from the name. It is caused by a lack of one or another vitamin in the body. Depending on what exactly is missing, different types of vitamin deficiency are determined. The disease, depending on the type, has different symptoms. So, for example, with a lack of vitamin A, birds have a decrease in appetite and a slowdown in growth. There is also paleness on the legs and beak, disheveled feathers and inflammation of the mucous membranes. With a lack of vitamin D, birds begin to fall on their paws and their bones are deformed.
With a lack of a number of vitamins, cloacite develops. The symptoms of this disease are inflammation of all mucous membranes.
Treatment of vitamin deficiency involves saturating the body with the missing vitamin, but here you need to not overdo it, since an overabundance of one or another vitamin sometimes has the same negative effect on health as its lack.
For the prevention of vitamin deficiency in the diet of birds include shell, fish and meat and bone meal, chalk. The daily norms of these products are prescribed in the norms of feeding birds.
Poisoning
The most common disease is food poisoning. It is caused by the consumption of low-quality feed. This applies not only to homemade mash, but also to green food. You can not give indochka greens treated with insecticides, rotten vegetables or poisonous plants. It can provoke poisoning and an excessive amount of salt in the diet of birds.
Signs of food poisoning are diarrhea and vomiting, convulsions. With severe poisoning, the Indians die. Such birds are not slaughtered because their meat is unsuitable for human consumption.
Paratyphoid and hepatitis
These are infectious diseases that lead to the death of birds. Symptoms of paratyphoid are excessive tearing of the eyes, diarrhea and gluing of the eyelids, a complete lack of appetite. A veterinarian should be involved in the treatment of this disease. Eggs laid by sick ducks cannot be eaten. The meat is also not edible. If the drake has managed to fertilize a sick duck before the egg is formed, the duck will be a carrier of paratyphoid fever.
Hepatitis affects the liver. If you cut a duck sick with hepatitis, you can see how the disease changed the appearance of the liver. It affects the disease of birds at any age. Most of the day, the Indians sleep. If breathing, both in chicks and in adults, is heavy, the wings are lowered, the bird lowers its wings, you need to call a specialist.
If there are chickens or other native birds nearby, it can become infected from Indo-Ducks, so sick individuals are isolated from healthy ones. The best prevention of infectious diseases is poultry house disinfestation. This should be done at least once every few years, and preferably annually.
Helminths
Ducklings, like chickens, are inflicted huge damage by helminths. Caring for a native bird involves removing helminths with medications and folk remedies (onions, chopped spruce needles, garlic). It is not difficult to remove worms, but it must be done systematically.
Despite the fact that Indo-women are in good health, they must be constantly monitored. At the first symptoms of malaise, it is advisable to consult a specialist.
Indoor varieties
There are several varieties of indorects. We will not consider the characteristics of each, but only talk about which breeds are the most popular today. A distinctive feature of each is the color of the feathers.
Indoor women are white, black and white, brown or chocolate, blue, white with a pattern. In the photo you can see how a blue or chocolate indochka looks like.
This is not to say that a bird of one color is more attractive than another. In terms of breed characteristics, some grow faster, some more slowly. There are breeds that are distinguished by high egg productivity, and there are meat ducks. This diversity is due to the work of breeders who got a hybrid of a wild Indochka when mating it with a native bird.
Conclusion
You can even keep an Indoor in the country. They need a cozy house, which they can make with their own hands, before getting the birds. For 2 months, the bird gains weight, and an adult weighs 2-2.5 kg and is ready for slaughter. Taking care of ducklings is no more difficult than caring for chickens. Even novice poultry farmers can breed them. The main thing is to properly feed the birds, observing the daily norms of mineral substances, which should be in each individual. The breeding of indolets can be carried out in various ways (from eggs, having acquired young animals or adults of different sexes). Bred birds in any convenient way, but Indo-girls do not reproduce as quickly as we would like, therefore, it is advisable to acquire ducklings first, and over time - to increase the bird population. Since Indo-girls fly well, their wings are clipped.
A musky duck has tender and aromatic meat, which is easy to cook. After slaughter, the carcass is cut up and kept in a marinade before cooking. Carving duck is no different from carving chicken. Next, cook according to any recipe.
As a result, we can confidently say that, despite all the difficulties, breeding Indo-dogs is worth it.