Dilute home ducks is profitably not difficult at all. But for productivity and health of poultry, it is worth responsible to approach the conditions of its content. It is especially necessary to pay attention to the room in which you will grow ducks.
By the way, for all types of poultry - Kury, geese, ducks, turkeys - are suitable for any premises in which the necessary norms are followed. This is not only protection against dampness, temperature drop and draft, but also correct lighting, ventilation, compliance with sanitary and hygienic standards and much more. If you do not know how to build a wretcher, check out the text below.
Rules of detention of ducks
Ducks are pretty unpretentious poultry, which are capable of living anywhere, but it is preferable to contain them in specialized rooms - masters.
Ducks contain on the floor - they do not need to build pesals and high nests, however, it does not mean at all that it is possible to approach the placement of birds after the poultry. The size of the uterine depends only on the number of birds, which will live here. The density of "population" can not exceed more than two-three heads per square meter.
The content of ducks in dirt and constant dirt is contraindicated, otherwise the bird will deteriorate the feather and the quality of the fluff. In addition, the more ducks in the room, the more competition - birds may experience discomfort and, as a result, lose weight.
Before starting to build a wretcher with your own hands, decide on the right place. Ideally, it should be the southern side of the site, a little raised than the rest of the site. This area should be dry - it does not need to pumped sorate waters - ducks love water, but do not like the swamps.
By the way, since the construction of wrappers will take a certain amount of time, therefore, while still ducklings are ducklings, a temporary portable fence can be made for them.
Temporary awakener
Little ducks are important located in the fresh air: graze on fresh grass and taking sunny baths. At the same time, the kids must necessarily be isolated from the outside world, where their real danger towes them from all sides. Most often finding "shepherd" is quite problematic, so you can build a temporary awaken, his photo can be seen below.
A temporary poultry for waterfowl can be made from the reinforcement grid. At the same time, if ducklings are too small, then the edge must also be covered. For older birds, the top can be left open. Inside the pen will necessarily need to put some container with water, for example, galvanized trough or pelvis.
The advantage of temporary strife is that it is mobile - as soon as the birds eat all the grass on the place where they had a "camp", worshis can be transferred to a new place. Thus, the locations can be changed as much as you like - the main thing, the feathers will be safe, just as in full security will be a garden until you build a capital cramming, of course.
Overhaul
Most often the capital crashed at the cottage, or on the household plot. For its construction use the most diverse building material. Naturally, the most durable aweskend will be made of bricks or from a tree.
For any building, during the construction of a room for a bird, allocate several isolated stages of work: you first need to pour the foundation and organize the floor, then build walls and arrange a roof.
Foundation
- The foundation in the taste is completely shallow - on the bayonet shovel.
- Before pouring the floor, on the perimeter of the future taste, it is necessary to pour a mixture in a proportion of 1: 1 of gravel and rubble.
- On top of the stones you need to pour a mixture of liquid concrete, into which the acute piercing-cutting "stuffing" is added. It can be small nails and various glands, broken glass or needles. Thanks to this warning, you will save your awaken from the invasion of rodents, which in the fall will look for a new home.
- As soon as the concrete with a "filling" dries, the floor will need to pour a decent bitumen layer - such a floor will last long and it will be very warm, and it can be easily removed.
Walls
- As saving material resources, the walls of the taste can be built from wooden boards.
- The boards have two online jacks and one vents so that there is no heat loss.
- As warming up, you can use sawdust.
- Inside the wall is plastered.
- All the cracks can be blown outside the construction foam, and from the inside - pacles.
Roof
- Any roof is suitable for awesome: single-skate, smooth, skate.
- If you are planning an attic room above the awesome, then there is no sharp necessity to warm the roof, if the roof is smooth, then the insulation is necessary - the tale or rubberoid.
Floodyard
Ducks can not sit in the indoor room all the time, they need a deducing yard - this is a fenced outdoor area, like a small avoller, which is connected to a mascot passage. The deducing yard should be fenced with a fence with a height of at least 1.5 meters. Be sure to be canopy from the sun.
Device crayon
Walls, floor and roof - it's not all. The most important thing begins with the landscaping of the taste, because the more serious you come to this issue, the more chances to increase the productivity of poultry. Remember that in the taste, everything should be comfortable, durable and reliable.
Lighting
As lighting in the taste, it will be enough to use a light bulb of small power, as the Light is not particularly important. But in winter, the bulb should burn two or three hours - to extend the pernamy day.
Carrying
There should be no drafts in the taste, so the ventilation system should be located as high as possible from the floor. Take care that the windows are freely opened both from the inside and outside, so as not to disturb the bird once again.
Heating
- During the cold winters, the awaken must heat - with the help of electricity or with the help of a furnace.
- If you have made the solution to heat the wrapper with electricity, you need to build five light bulbs with a power of 50 W blue in the wall.
- If you accepted the decision to heat the stove crammed, you can use, either "burzhuyku" or a small stone.
- The furnace must be burned from the pennate by heat-resistant materials.
- To make the room where the ducks are contained, it is necessary every other day.
Floor
- From above to the floor it will be necessary to lay a special natural litter for ducks of peat, straw, sawdust and ash.
- The litter is changing as pollution.
- Remember that pests that spoil the feather and the fluff are quickly becoming fast.
Cordushka
- For feeding ducks, deep feeders are suitable - for example, in the form of long trough.
- It is best if the feeders are made of metal - they are very convenient to give wet food, like a grain mixture.
- Since the ducks go on the floor and do not know how to jump high, the place for feeders must be considered exclusively on the floor.
- If you give pernate dry food - for example, mineral additives in the form of chalk and shells, then for this you need to put wooden trough.
- The feeder can be put close to the wall, or at a short distance from it - it all depends on how many birds should be at the same time to come to the trough.
- Ducks eat very not carefully - they love to "figure out" food around, so it's not worth putting a lot of feed in the feeders - it is enough to fill the trough by 1/3.
Drinking
- Ducks - waterfowl birds, so access to water should be permanent, since one individual can drink 600 ml of water per day.
- Drinking bowl for ducks should be roomy and, most importantly, comfortable for ducks.
- In wrappers, the drinking boxes should stand on the floor.
- Drinking can be from any material.
- So that the water remains clean as much as possible, and that the ducks do not try to "swim", the drinking rooms are better placed on a small elevation - centimeters 15-20 on the floor.
Nests
If you started the ducks of meat breeds that rush seasonally, it is not worth paying special attention to the nests - they just do not need you. In the event that you have a duck with permanent eggs, it means that you need to build perfect sockets.
- Sockets help control the process of laying eggs.
- The nests arrange along the walls, on the opposite side of the feeders.
- Nes must be twice as fewer than ducks. For example, if you have 10 ducks, then the nests should be 5-6 pieces.
- Wooden drawers or wicker baskets can be used as nests.
- The size of the nest must be within 60-70 centimeters, and the height is not more than 25 centimeters, while the threshold needs to be done even below - no more than 10 centimeters so that the ducks can freely go and go out.
- As a litter in the jacks, you can use sawdust or straw.
- The litter must be changed as often as possible - the eggs will remain clean.
Water treatments
- If the waterfowl does not have free access to the natural water, then in the deduction yard you need to put special containers with water. These mini pools must be deep so that the ducks can swim.
- As a container, you can use galvanized trough - enough to wear it into the ground.
- You can use a ditch as a reservoir - it is digging right in the deduction courtyard of a period of one and a half meters, and 50 centimeters width. Water must be pouring as often as possible - as the fluid drying.
- If the ducks remain in the winter, then in the cold season, they are contraindicated in the cold season - this can lead to the fact that the ducks will be frozen and caught.
Solo baths
In addition to water procedures, coarse baths are also needed - they are well helped to fight external parasites.
- "Solo baths" are a mixture of sand and wood ash, the ducks love to be flounded in such a mixture.
- The ash mix is \u200b\u200bbest pouring into specially made for this boxes.
- The size of the coil mixture: height - 20 centimeters, length is 1.5 meters.
- The bin with an ash mix can be installed both in a deduction courtyard and in the indoor room.
- The ash mix is \u200b\u200bchanged at least once a month.
- By changing the mixture, do not forget to disinfect the box with a special solution.