What to feed ducks?

Many people living in private houses have ducks. They hope to provide their seven delicious meat and get eggs from waterfowl. Contrary to the problem that the duck does not require great care, this bird is rather whimpically. If it is wrong to feed, then it will give meat very little, and the eggs can not be waited at all. Monotonous or defective feed leads to various bird diseases.

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Groups of Cord

To grow a good bird population, feed for her need to choose rationally. They are divided into such groups:

• Cereal feed. These include: corn, wheat, barley and oats.
• Juicy are different herbs and vegetables.
• Fur animal origin - flour fish and bone.
• Mineral additives. These are some natural materials in which many minerals. For example: egg shell, chalk, sand, etc.

Next, you will learn how much the feed must be introduced into the diet of the ducks and how this feed is correctly given. This is especially true of ducks contained in cells or fences.

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Corn grain

Grain crops are rich in carbohydrates (provide energy of energy), proteins (contribute to the increase in the meat mass), fiber, vitamins and microelements (responsible for bird health).

• The best grain feed is corn. There is a lot of carotene in it, it is easily absorbed and the bird eats her with pleasure. Corn for ducks must be crushed if it gives her young. Adult birds of grain is allowed to give even whole, but it is also undesirable. In general, corn ducks just give up to 50% of the entire daily feed rate.
• The second place of utility takes wheat - there is a lot of vitamin B and squirrel in it. Wheat can be the third part of the daily feed rate. Wheat for youngsters is also better to crush - it is so easier to digest. In addition to the wheat itself, the flour of coarse grinding is allowed in the feed, but then it must be mixed with finely chopped greens. Such a mass is called food wet and fastens a bird well.
• Barley may well replace wheat, but the grains have a very coarse shell. Therefore, barley before the cottage must be neglected - this rule applies not only to young people, but also to adult ducks.
• Very useful for waterfowl and Oats - there are many fatty acids, protein, vitamins. A big minus of this culture is that the shell of barley grains at all is not digested in the stomach in ducks. Therefore, this grain before feeding the birds must be treated on a special kruchuska. This unit jumps with the grains of the shell and makes them disorderly.
• It is allowed to give ducks and bean: peas or beans. They have a lot of protein - up to 20%. But the ducks are not very complaining of these cultures, so in feed they are not recommended to add more than 5% and that, only in crushed form.

By summing up, you can create an approximate formula of a dry feed: 50% - corn, 30% wheat (or oats, or barley), 5% - legumes. The remaining 15% will consist of grass, vegetables, animal feed and various useful additives.

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Green feed

The grass and vegetables must be given to the Ducks and necessarily in combination with grain. Since these feed is very wet, they are well helped to digest into the stomach with dry crushed grains.

• If near the house, where to contain ducks, there are water and meadow, then the birds themselves will find that they are in nature. They will eat a row in water and young sprouts of various grass.
• Ducks contained in the pens, it is necessary to give plenty of grass: nettle, young peas and beans, alfalfa, clover. The grass must be finely chopped, and the nettle is also quiety.
• The fruits of carrots, beets, pumpkins are well suited as green feeds. Also, ducks will eat any cabbage, green onions, salad and even crusts from watermelons, but also finely chopped.

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Feed of animal origin

Ducks, especially contained in closed fences and non-access to natural meadows and water bodies, must be given sources of vitamins and trace elements. In the main grain feed, it is good to mix a little bone or fish flour - these supplements are sold in specialized stores for gardeners gardeners. You can also give any cheap fish minced meat, but pre-carved in the refrigeration chamber. The same applies to any meat waste from the table of the owners, but if they are not too salty.

The smallest ducklings as a source of vitamins and trace elements is also recommended to give some zero fatty curd. As they grow, the cottage cheese is stopped, and in the diet described above the feed of animal origin.

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Mineral additives

They not only saturate the body with minerals, but also help gross grains well digest in the stomach.

• Eggshell. It needs to grind a bit and plug in grain.
• Inchorated in large dust of Panciri from river shells. Also mix with grain or with the same wheat flour of coarse grinding.
• Ordinary river sand or even very small gravel. Both are necessary to digest food in the stomach.
• Chalk, but which is sold by large pieces. It can be split into smaller fractions and also give with grain.

Many owners feed their ducks with special stores balanced feeds, giving birds additionally only water. This method of feeding is also good, but these are quite expensive. If the ducks grow in a huge amount for the sale of meat, then this method of feeding may well pay off. But if the ducks are kept only to ensure your family, then the ducks are cheaper to feed those feeds about which is written above. At the same time, the ducks in the home feed must add a little ordinary cooking salt - it is a source of chlorine and sodium, which also need a bird.