How to Raise Ducks in Rural Areas? Practical Breeding Methods and Techniques

Duck meat is the most common dish on our family dinner tables. Raising ducks in rural areas is a traditional farming project. Ducks have strong adaptability, a short growth cycle, and reach market weight quickly. It is easier to raise than chickens, and it is also a small-capital startup project preferred by many rural entrepreneurs. Below, the editor will introduce how to raise ducks in rural areas.

How to Raise Ducks in Rural Areas

When raising ducks in rural areas, you must first select good ducklings. Second, before entering the house, comprehensive fumigation and spray disinfection should be carried out, and an appropriate vacant period for the house should also be ensured. In addition, during the brooding period, the duck flock should be evenly distributed and feeding activity should be normal. Feeding should mainly rely on grain and seed feeds, bran and middlings, root tubers, tubers and melons, and distillers' grains and other residues.

Duck Feed and Food

1. Grain and seed feeds include corn, wheat, wheat bran, barley, oats, sorghum, broken rice, paddy, millet, wheat middlings, etc. If sorghum is used for feeding, it must be crushed, or soaked in water until soft, and fed after the sorghum sprouts. The outer shell of paddy is very hard, so it must first be ground into powder before feeding. Because the outer shell of paddy has a high fiber content, it should be fed sparingly.

2. Bran and middlings include wheat bran, corn bran, unified bran, etc. These three feeds all contain very high crude fiber. If wheat bran and corn bran are used to feed laying ducks and meat ducks, their content in the feed must not exceed 15%. These three brans are also good feed for geese, and generally must not exceed 20% in the feed.

3. Root tubers, tubers and melons include potato, sweet potato (earth potato), sugar beet, carrot, pumpkin, summer squash, etc. They are all also good feed for feeding ducks and geese. If mixed powder feed is used to feed ducks and geese inside the shed, adding trace elements and multiple vitamin components to the feed makes it unnecessary to add root tubers, tubers and green feed.

4. Distillers' grains and residues include vinasse, beer grains, tofu residue, sugar beet residue, etc., all of which can be used to feed ducks and geese.

In addition, inorganic salt feeds such as shell powder, stone powder, eggshell powder, bone meal, and salt can all be used to feed ducks and geese, but it should be noted that the amount fed to ducks and geese at different stages must be well controlled.