A huge number of people who spend most of their time outside the city are breeding poultry so that after a certain amount of time they treat their relatives and friends with amazingly delicious meat. In this regard, ducklings are especially valuable, since it is not only juicy, but also high-calorie. Among other things, those who regularly breed ducks, in the end, can count on getting quality duck down and fatty liver.
However, before you get it all, you need to grow a bird. At the same time, not everyone knows how to feed the little ducklings so that their growth is complete. The recommendations below will help with this.
Turning to the question of how to feed little ducklings, it is necessary to emphasize that a newly hatched brood should be forced to drink a slightly pink solution of potassium permanganate with an ordinary pipette. In addition, you must sprinkle on a sheet of cardboard in front of the young daily food, consisting of a mixture of cool porridge and boiled egg. You must also feed the ducklings themselves, who subsequently begin to respond to “moving” food. At the next stage of feeding, babies are forcibly watered with the addition of milk and fed with a semi-liquid mixture, which consists of chicken or duck eggs, previously shelled, as well as oat, barley or corn grits.
In addition, eggs are often combined with nettles and green onions. All of the above is the answer to the question of how to feed the little ducklings in the first three days of their life.
Once the youngsters are ten days old, boiled potatoes can be added to the wet mash.
From the age of fifteen, the bird can be released into the pond. During this period of time, they should receive food three times a day. Once the ducklings are one month old, you can switch to a two-time feeding system. The first meal should be around ten o’clock in the morning, and you shouldn’t feed the bird: it should eat the greenery growing in the pond.
Considering the question of how to feed the little ducklings, it should be noted that this bird does not need abundant food in hot weather. It will be useful in the summer to change the feeding regimen a little: give the first dose at dawn, and the last - at dusk.
Speaking about how to feed monthly ducklings, it should be emphasized that a bird at this age receives natural feed from water bodies and rivers in the right amount, so it will be enough to give it crushed grain and grain waste in the morning and evening hours.
Young birds should be given water from flow-through drinking bowls, and it must be ensured that its temperature is within twenty degrees Celsius. Keep in mind that a duck drinks three times more than it eats. The depth of the drinker must be selected so that the bird can rinse the nasal openings.
Returning to the question of how to feed one-day-old ducklings, it should be noted that they must additionally receive in the right amount the mineral substances that are abundantly contained in shells, eggshells, chalk, and limestone. Moreover, in the first two weeks of life, the bird should be given at the rate of 1 gram per 1 head per day, over time, the dosage increases by 6-10 times.
Since ducklings love to swim, it will be useful to provide for them a mini-pool in which the water should always be clean. Properly organizing the poultry feeding system, you will make sure that very soon aromatic, tasty and juicy meat appears on your dining table.