How to feed wild duck seedlings

Wild duck is a kind of special bird with strong adaptability, wide diet, tolerance to rough feeding and easy to raise. Under good nutrition and feeding management, the growth rate is fast, the feed reward is high, the body weight of 60 ~ 70 days old can reach 1.3kg, and the ratio of meat to feed is 1:3. So how do you tell a wild duck from a female? How to feed the young wild ducks?

Adult wild duck, male wild duck has four male feathers in the center of its tail feathers, which are black and curled upward like hooks, with a very obvious white ring under the neck. These are the most typical characteristics of adult male wild ducks, while adult female wild ducks do not have these characteristics. Ducklings can be identified by the following methods:

1. Appearance identification. Hold the female wild duck on the hand, where the head is large, the neck is thick, the nose is long and narrow, the nose base is thick, the plane is not undulating, and the forehead hair is upright for the male wild duck, while the female wild duck has a small head, flat body, scattered tail, large and slightly round nostrils, soft nose base and supine forehead hair.

2. Action discrimination. When driving away the ducklings, the ducklings bowed their heads and stretched out their necks, and the male ducks with high, sharp and clear calls were males; the ones with high heads and low chirps were female ducks.

3. Touch the tube method. The singing tube of the male wild duck is spherical and easy to touch; the female wild duck's singing tube is the same as its upper trachea.

4. The method of turning the anus. Hold the duckling in the palm of the left hand, clamp the duck's neck with the middle finger and ring finger, make the head outward, belly up, into a supine position; then squeeze out the meconium with the right thumb and index finger, and then gently open the anus. In the case of male chicks, it can be seen that there are 3-4 cm long copulatory apparatus, while the female chicks do not.

5. Press the method of pinching the anus. The left hand grabs the duckling with its back to the sky, and the anus faces the appraiser's right hand. Gently pinch the thumb and index finger of the right hand on the outside of the anus. If it is a male, you can feel a canola-sized copulatory tube between your fingers; if you are a female, you will not feel a foreign body.

The feeding method of wild duck seedlings:

The first feeding of duck seedlings is called feeding.

1) feeding time of wild duck seedlings: wild duck seedlings start to eat after 2-3 hours of drinking. The same batch of wild duck seedlings have different shelling time, and the opening time should be different. Even wild duck seedlings that come out of shells at the same time should be released according to the situation of the century. Release the wild duck seedlings that are not suitable for eating, and then start eating when the time is ripe.

2) feeding utensils for wild duck seedlings: ducklings usually eat with a shallow plate or egg receptacle, or you can sprinkle the feed in a shallow trough. In order to prevent wild duck seedlings from wasting feed, spread a layer of newspaper or duckling box under the shallow plate or egg holder and disassemble the pad below: remove the newspaper or cardboard after 3 days, the feeding utensils can be self-made, or you can choose a thicker plastic sheet. according to the size of the brooding area and the number of chicks. Cut into a rectangle of 60-90 cm wide and 90-120 cm long.

3) Wild duck seedling feed: prepare the feed according to the quantity of 200 500 grams of rice or millet, first cook the rice or millet half-cooked, remove the stickiness by soaking it in cold water, and then mix it with fish meal and bean cake. it can also be fed with wet powder or broken grains with water, and the wild duck seedlings should be fed with compound feed after eating.

4) feeding method of wild duck seedlings: spread the feed on a shallow plate, or on a bamboo pad or on plastic paper, and allow the wild duck seedlings to eat freely.

Feeding times of wild duck:

1) 1 day old: all-day feeding

2) 2 days old: 8 times a day, 5 times during the day, 3 times at night.

3) 6-10 days old: 6 times a day, 4 times during the day, 2 times at night

4) 11-16 days of age: 4-5 times a day, 3 times during the day, 1-2 times at night

5) after 17 days of age: 4 times a day, 3 times during the day and 1 time at night

6) when breeding ducks, after 20 days of age, basically let them look for food in the wild all day, and replenish them once in the morning.

Wild duck feed

1) 5 days old: feed cooked rice, while adding appropriate amount of vitamins, antibiotics, cod liver oil and chopped vegetables, aquatic plants, etc.

2) 6-10 days old: mixed feed of 1x4 in rice can be combined with some green feed and fresh animals such as small fish, shrimp, clam meat, earthworms, yellow powder insects and so on.

3) 11-20 days old: fed with soaked brown rice and mixed feed with 1x3.

4) after 21 days of age, all can be fed with mixed feed.

5) after 30 days of age, the proportion of fish meal and bean cake in the feed should be appropriately reduced, and roughage should be gradually increased to 15% Mur20%. At the same time, green fodder, such as all kinds of tea, alfalfa, grass and aquatic plants, should be fed.

6) after 55 days old: reduce roughage, increase fish meal and bean cake, and feed enough green feed at the same time.