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Four Must-Dos for Duck Farming: Getting These Four Points Right Is Crucial
Duck disease is the greatest threat to large-scale meat duck production. Therefore, duck farmers must do a good job of duck disease prevention and control to ensure the healthy development of duck production. Do a good job of disinfection. Disinfection scope: inside and outside the duck houses and duck sheds, all duck production equipment, exercise yards, manure storage areas, etc. must be thoroughly disinfected, leaving no dead corners. Disinfection methods: the inner walls and spaces of duck houses and duck sheds can be disinfected by ultraviolet lamp irradiation and chemical fumigation; duck beds and exercise yards can be disinfected by spraying with strong disinfectants such as 2-4% sodium hydroxide solution; production equipment such as feeders and drinkers can be soaked, washed and disinfected with low-toxicity, strong-effect medicinal solutions; duck manure can be disinfected by piling it up for fermentation and spraying disinfectant liquid on the surface of the manure pile. Disinfection timing: some duck farmers do not promptly clean up manure and tidy the environmental sanitation after the ducks are sent to market, but instead hurriedly clean up the environment and carry out disinfection work just before a new batch of meat ducks is about to be brought in. This is a very bad habit. The correct approach is: immediately after the meat ducks are sent to market, clean up the environmental sanitation and do a good job of disinfection, leave the house or shed empty for 20 days, and only after disinfecting again can a new batch of ducklings be received and brought in. In addition, disinfection work should be done well during the duck-raising period. Duck-raising equipment should be frequently washed and disinfected. After clearing manure and bedding material from the duck bed, disinfect the duck bed immediately. Do a good job of immunization. Large-scale meat duck production involves large numbers, high density and frequent sending to market, making infectious diseases extremely likely to occur. To ensure the safety of duck production, it is necessary to systematically and purposefully inject vaccines into duck flocks not infected with disease, also called preventive inoculation. Which vaccine to use should be determined according to the epidemic situation in the local area and neighboring areas. For any duck infectious disease that has occurred locally or in neighboring areas, the corresponding vaccine must be injected. Expired vaccines or vaccines stored improperly cannot be used; inject vaccines strictly according to the dosage and method specified on the vaccine label. If an infectious disease occurs in the current flock or neighboring duck flocks during the meat duck raising period, emergency vaccination or injection of hyperimmune serum should be carried out. Through these measures, the epidemic of the disease can be rapidly controlled. Do a good job of handling dead and sick ducks. Some duck farmers do not isolate and raise sick ducks, and throw dead ducks around at will. This practice is not good for their own duck production and may also harm ducks raised by others. This phenomenon must be eliminated. When sick ducks are found, they must immediately be picked out from the flock, raised in isolation, and a veterinarian should be asked to diagnose and treat them or they should be handled according to requirements; dead ducks must be deeply buried or incinerated, and must not be processed and sold or eaten on one's own. Do a good job of scientific medication. Scientific medication is an important means of doing a good job of duck disease prevention and control. In the practice of duck production, drugs used can be divided into preventive medication and therapeutic medication. Preventive medication refers to adding a certain drug to feed or drinking water before the duck flock becomes ill, so as to effectively prevent or reduce the occurrence of duck disease in advance. For example: feeding gentamicin to a duck flock can control the occurrence of colibacillosis; feeding anticoccidial drugs can prevent the occurrence of coccidiosis, and so on. Therapeutic medication refers to targeted feeding of drugs after the duck flock has become ill and has been definitively diagnosed, so as to achieve the purpose of treating the disease and controlling the disease situation.</p>
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What to pay attention to when keeping ground beetles for breeding stock
When ground beetles (Eupolyphaga sinensis) are taken from the wild and switched to artificial rearing, there is the problem of keeping breeding stock. Although artificial rearing has not been carried out for long, because the issue of keeping breeding stock was not given attention in the early stage, problems of stock degeneration have also appeared, showing as deformed bodies, reduced egg production, weakened vitality, etc., so
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What aspects need attention when choosing a site for a chicken farm?
When building a chicken farm, the first thing to consider is the site selection, and site selection must be determined according to the farm's rearing scale and rearing purpose (whether raising commercial broilers, commercial layers, or breeding chickens, etc.). Whether the site selection is appropriate affects sanitation and disease prevention, the growth of the chickens
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What issues need attention in quail chick rearing?
Young quails are put into cages for rearing after hatching. A coal stove with a smoke exhaust pipe is used for heating. At one day of age, the house temperature is 32°C, then decreases by 0.5°C each day, until at 20 days of age when the temperature is above 20°C, heating is stopped. Young quails are given broiler chick feed (crude protein content not less than 22%) until
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What kind of environmental conditions are needed for raising pheasants
What kind of environment is needed for pheasant farming? For a pheasant farm, you should look for a place with dry, gently sloping terrain, facing the sun and sheltered from the wind, and relatively speaking it is best if it is quiet. The pheasant coop requirements are similar to those for domestic chicken coops. The size and area of the coop can be determined according to the scale of raising. The coop can
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What aspects of meat pigeon breeding and reproduction need to be done well?
1. Do a good job of pairing. Young pigeons reach sexual maturity at about 5 months of age, begin courtship behavior, and are then paired. When pairing, the following issues should be noted: ① Prevent early mating. Sexual maturity is not the same as physical maturity. To prevent early mating, young pigeons aged 3 to 4 months should be kept with males and females
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What are the four key points to get right in intensive snakehead culture? Detailed techniques
To achieve high yield and good returns in intensive snakehead culture, four key points must be got right. 1. Seed stock: Snakehead is hardy and highly resistant to disease, but during the fry stage the incidence of disease and mortality rate are relatively high. For pond intensive culture, the stocking size of seed stock should be within 100 fish per kg. Such seed stock is close to adult fish in all respects, has a high survival rate after stocking, and is easy to raise. At the same time, note that the seed stock should be uniform in size, free of disease and injury. Deformed fry with a big head and small tail, improper proportions, or protruding eyeballs must not be introduced for stocking.
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What are the key points for sea cucumber farming in spring?
In northern China, sea cucumber farming is mostly open-air farming in tidal flats and shrimp ponds with artificial reefs. Many farmers hold the notion that because winter temperatures are low, sea cucumbers need no management, which leads to the death of many sea cucumbers. Based on what has been learned in recent years, the timing of large-scale disease outbreaks in farmed sea cucumbers is basically
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How to meet the nutritional needs of sows during the breeding period
Feeding and management of open (non-pregnant) sows. The task of open sows. During this period, for various reasons, sows consume a great deal of various nutrients in their bodies, and most are relatively thin and weak. Therefore, nutrition must be strengthened to quickly restore body condition, meeting their needs for protein, energy, vitamins, minerals and
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Cattle farming requires good daily health care to ensure the cattle stay healthy
After entering spring, the temperature difference between day and night is relatively large. The temperature inside the cattle shed should be kept at 8°C to 20°C, with good ventilation, and attention should be paid to frequently changing the bedding straw. Keep the cattle pen dry, do not let humidity get too high, and strictly prevent a wet pen to help retain warmth; otherwise, it will cause a decline in dairy cow milk production, and in severe cases it will also cause
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