Do a good job in night management of laying ducks to promote high yield

Laying ducks are a major direction in duck farming, and different farming areas exist across various regions of our country. The most important thing in raising laying ducks is how to increase their egg-laying rate and promote high yield. Many friends strengthen management during the day, but in fact night management work is also very important for promoting the production of laying ducks. Below, the editor brings you night management methods for laying duck farming. Let's take a look!

1. Keep quiet

Laying ducks are relatively timid, quite sensitive to environmental changes, and easily frightened. After being frightened, laying ducks flap and call out, colliding with one another. Especially when laying eggs at night, this can easily lead to broken duck eggs or soft-shelled eggs. After being frightened, ducks will seriously reduce their egg-laying rate and lower egg quality, leading to soft-shelled eggs and other poor eggs for several consecutive days. Therefore, the farm should be kept quiet at night to prevent the ducks from being frightened.

2. Artificial supplementary lighting

Light is a related factor in ensuring the metabolism of ducks. Suitable light can increase the ducks' appetite, promote the secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone in Sheldrake ducks for ovulation, promote follicle growth, and help increase the egg-laying rate. The average daily light requirement for laying ducks should be about 15 hours. If natural light is insufficient, then artificial supplementary lighting is also needed at night to ensure the light requirements for the growth of laying ducks are met. Several light bulbs can be set up in the duck house, with lights turned on at fixed times every day for supplementary lighting, keeping the light duration constant. This promotes the growth of laying ducks and increases egg production.

3. Supplementary feeding at night

Ducks have a relatively strong metabolic function and usually need to eat at night, otherwise they will feel hungry, which has a certain impact on egg laying. Moreover, ducks also have the habit of foraging at night, so we also need to do supplementary feeding work at night. Ensure sufficient clean drinking water and feed, and let the ducks eat freely and in a timely manner, to prevent insufficient feed at night for the ducks and a reduction in the egg-laying rate.

4. Separate overnight

The sexual needs of ducks directly affect their egg laying, so in order to ensure that laying ducks have sufficient desire to mate, at night the ducks should be raised separately by male and female, to prevent male ducks with strong sexual desire from disturbing the female ducks' egg laying and overnight rest. Then the next day during the daytime, put the male ducks back into the female duck flock to let them mate. It is best to put them all into water, because the buoyancy of water is greater, and during mating the female ducks will be more comfortable, which helps increase egg production.

5. Avoid dampness

Although ducks like water, the duck house should not be too damp and should be kept in a state of alternating dry and moist. If the temperature and humidity inside the duck house are too high, this provides conditions for the growth of microorganisms and easily causes various diseases. In a low-temperature, high-humidity environment, ducks will have a cold stress response and are prone to catching colds. Therefore, keeping the duck house dry is the key to ensuring the healthy growth of ducks. Moreover, ducks lay eggs in grass nests, so we also need to spread straw in the duck house to make it convenient for the ducks to lay eggs.

The above is a brief introduction to night management for promoting high yield in ducks. Night management work for ducks is very important. It is closely related to the egg-laying rate, so everyone must pay more attention. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. Thank you for reading and supporting.