Feeding ducklings - the critical step in raising baby ducks Feed duck with mashed started wet for 8 weeks. ducklings were raised as indigenous native foods are moist boiled rice for the first 33 weeks, 4 to 5 times a day. During the first few days to feed at night. Start by giving water troughs or fountains on the 2nd day. The fifth day, add finely chopped small shrimps cooked rice. Increase feeding the ducklings grow.
At the age of one month, feeding ducklings small freshwater snails and boiled rice husk. Add only enough food for consumption because they tend to spoil when left long in the hollow.
Mash feed the ducklings is maize, soybean meal, fish meal, whey powder, rice bran with oyster shell and bone meal with supplements of vitamins and minerals. Feeding day at 6 weeks old ducklings with mashed starting with 10-21% crude protein as 6 weeks to 4 months old duckling with mashed with producers of crude protein 16%, and 4 months Ducks old, even with layer mash or spirit ratio of 16% crude protein.
If food must be preferred, giving just enough to be eaten quickly at any given time 10 to 15 minutes. wet mash tends to spoil when left long in hoppers. If food is given at intervals, the ducklings learn to eat more easily and their appetites are developed to gorge themselves between drinks, the digestion of foods quickly and be ready to eat their fill for the next feeding time.
Four to five meals a day are sufficient for the ducklings over 2 weeks. Provide plenty of fresh, pure water like ducks drink after each mouthful of food.
Ducks are useless and neglected while the power. Provide adequate food good hopper to prevent the waste of food.
Posted on April 6, 2010.
