How to properly grow Indoor at home?

In recent decades, Indo-girls have become very popular among those who have a backyard and are engaged in amateur breeding of poultry. The correct name for these birds is musky ducks.

Muscovy ducks or Indo-duck

They are native to America, Central and South. They differ from ordinary ducks in that they have a different color, size, and various exterior characteristics. In terms of nutritional parameters, Indo-duck meat is at an intermediate stage between duck and goose. It is non-greasy, with a pleasant dense texture, soft, and is considered dietary. Many even prefer Indo-duck meat to broiler chickens. And in Europe they are bred not only for meat, but because of the delicious fatty liver.

Indoor cooked in the oven

What are they - Indo-girls

Indoor women come in different breeds. Today, several species have been bred for home cultivation in private farmsteads. They differ from each other in the color of their feathers.

Black musk duck

There are:

• with white feathers completely;
• with red or reddish-brown feathers;
• in brown plumage;
• with black and white, randomly spaced feathers;

  Black and white Indo-duck with ducklings

• black body and white wings.

White Indoor

All breeds of Indo-duck have common features.

1. Fat accumulation in meat is insignificant.
2. The plumage is of increased rigidity, there is no down.
3. Indo-women prefer plant food to any animal food.
4. They have a good instinct for flying, which has to be extinguished by cutting off the wings.
5. Indo-ducks carefully raise ducklings until they gain independence, with the onset of adulthood.
6. They have a medium-sized head, a thickened neck, and not a long elliptical body.
7. There are coral-like growths on the upper part of the beak. Males have a bump-shaped outgrowth at the base of the beak.
8. It is enough to grow an indoor meat for 60-65 days. At this age, subject to all conditions of detention, the weight of a bird carcass is 2.4-2.5 kg.
9. For laying eggs, Indo-ducks are grown from 10 months. At this age, egg production is up to one hundred and twenty or more eggs per year, with a yellowish-white shell, weighing about 80 g each.
10. This bird has a fairly stable immune system. It is the least susceptible of other poultry to infections and other diseases.

Indoor breeding

By the way! It is impossible not to note an important positive feature of Indo-ducks, which will be understood by everyone who was engaged in breeding ordinary ducks and geese, or at least adjacent to the yards where they are bred. Indo-girls do not grunt, do not cackle. They behave almost silently - only sometimes quietly hiss.They are called "mutees" for this. While other geese and ducks with their sound effects greatly interfere with the lives of others.

Musk Indoor Mute

The optimal feeding time for Indo-Ducks for meat is 60 days. It is impractical to feed them for more than 70 days, since the cost of feed exceeds the return on weight gain. In addition, at the age of 2.5 months, Indo-women begin to shed. When moulting, birds lose weight, no matter how hard they are fed. The old feather falls off, and new hemp-like short feathers form on the skin, which are very difficult to remove when processing a bird carcass.

Features of the content of Indo-dongs

Keeping duck ducks

1. Indo-ducks do not belong to land birds, but these waterfowl do not tolerate dampness in the place of detention.
2. They should not be crowded - there should be no more than four adult Indo-Ducks per square meter of poultry house area. There can be up to eight ducklings in this area.
3. They are not demanding on the temperature of the content - it is not necessary to maintain heat for them in the dwelling.
4. The room must be well ventilated and kept clean and dry.
5. House litter should be changed regularly, or at least freshly added. Straw and small sawdust are used as filler.

   In the photo there is an Indo-duck in a goose house and a hatched duckling

6. In the warm season, Indo-girls should be on the walk. These birds cannot sit in a cage like broilers - they have to move in order not to get sick. Adults are released for walking no earlier than ten in the morning, since they rush early in the morning and late in the evening.
7. During the walk, for Indo-girls, nails, screws, metal wires and other objects can be dangerous, which they can swallow or prick their feet on.
8. Indoor women need water for bathing. It is not necessary to build an artificial reservoir on the site - it is enough to put several containers with water or dig out small grooves by filling them with a hose.
9. If you don't cut off the wings of this bird, it will fly away. Indo-girls fly far and high. In order for the bird to get used to the inability to fly away and not make attempts to take off, it will have to clip its wings. Rather, one wing is half the length of the feathers. This will be enough to keep the bird at home.

   Duck wing trimming

Indoor breeding

Indo-female breeding is much easier than the rest of the poultry. You can do three things in order for Indo-girls to appear on your site.

1. Raise your own ducklings from eggs in your home incubator.
2. Buy ready-made bred ducklings from the farm.
3. Purchase or rent one drake and two muscovy ducks from familiar poultry farmers for several months.

The third way is usually used. With the arrival of spring, a "family" of Indo-Ducks is born, which immediately regularly begin to multiply. Indo-ducks perfectly hatch eggs and then take care of the chicks on their own without any problems. Thus, by the fall, you can provide yourself with the meat of young Indo-women, leaving one drake and several ducks for breeding for the next season.

Duckling duck

Advice! Mass clutch of eggs in Indo-Ducks begins in April. It is important that the eggs do not sit in the nest for a long time. If the clutch is not very intensive, the first laid eggs must be removed from the nest over time. After the bird has laid about two dozen eggs, it begins to incubate them.

How the sex is determined in little goslings

Indoor nest

The owners need to think about preparing the nest, and it is advisable to do this even before the onset of April.

1. For the nest, an ordinary box made of thick cardboard is quite suitable, the bottom of which is covered with burlap (you cannot use any natural fabric - you cannot use synthetic).

   Duck Nest Box

2. If necessary, after two days of incubation, you can put in the nest (having made it larger in advance), twenty more eggs, for example, which you wanted to use for an incubator.Indoor mother can handle double the number of chicks.

   Duck nest

3. Next to the nest, it is necessary to equip not only a feeder, but also a drinking bowl combined with a bath. The bird will bathe throughout the entire period of incubation. Water procedures destroy parasites that actively start in the feathers of a bird from sitting in one place for a long time. In addition, moisturizing the feathers of the Indo-duck helps maintain the necessary moisture in the nest.

   Duck bath

Advice! The nest must be reliably protected from the penetration of stranger chicks of young Indo-ducks. Seeing other Indo-outs, the expectant mother can abandon her own nest to the mercy of fate and start caring for the foster chicks.

Ducklings care

How to breed Indo-girls and take care of their offspring

On the 33-35th day of incubation, chicks will hatch in the nest. They have a yellow shiny fluff, stand well on their feet, they have shiny convex eyes, not covered with a cloudy film. A healthy chick weighs about 60 grams.

In contrast to broiler chickens, day-olds cannot eat and drink on their own. If they are bred by an Indo-duck, the mother will teach them. If you've raised or bought chicks in your home incubator, you'll have to trick them a little to get them to feed as quickly as possible. First feeding - boiled egg, white and yolk together, finely chopped. Egg crumbs are poured directly onto the backs of the ducklings. They immediately begin to peck it off each other or when the crumb rolls to the floor.

Feeding ducklings from the first days

On the second day, milk and bran are added to the egg. On the fifth day, you can begin to give meat waste, well cooked and chopped.

On the tenth day, boiled potatoes are added.

Advice! A vitamin and mineral supplement that protects against rickets is required. You can use any, purchase at a veterinary pharmacy, give according to the dosage in the instructions.

Vitamin and mineral supplement for chickens, chickens, ducks and geese

Growing Indo-Ducks

The main positive quality of this bird is undemanding to the conditions of keeping. Absolutely any room can be adapted for growing Indo-ducks - a barn, a storage room, a utility house, a trailer. The main thing is that in the makeshift poultry house it is not cold, not damp and there are no drafts.

Recommendations for growing duck ducks

Indo-women are surprisingly resilient. Under normal conditions, their mortality is a maximum of five percent. Moreover, these figures are typical not only for adults, but also for young animals.

When growing Indo-Ducks, special conditions are not needed, for example, a large reservoir.

They are not afraid of humans, pets, do not react with harsh sounds to irritating factors, create coziness in the courtyard and decorate the landscape with their beautiful plumage.

Indoor women in the courtyard

Content type

According to the type of content for Indo-women grown for meat, only walking is suitable. They need an individual room with the ability to enter and leave as needed. Do not keep Indo-dogs with other pets and birds. The room should have a door and windows that face south. Keep the house cool in summer.

Bird walking is very important

By the way! A flock of Indo-Ducks - parents intended for reproduction of offspring, can be kept without walking. But regular walks will promote their health and increase the bird's resistance to disease.

In order for the Indo-girls to get more sunlight, the walking area should be located on the south side of the house. For the safe and quick release of birds for walking in the wall at a height of 30 cm from the floor, a number of closing manholes are made, 40 centimeters in size. Boards-ladders are brought to them from both sides so that the Indo-girls do not injure their paws when entering and exiting.

The herd can be sent for walking after morning feeding (egg-laying individuals - after laying eggs). Usually it is 10-11 am.An hour before the end of daylight hours, the birds can be driven back into the dwelling.

Bathing ducks is permissible only at freezing temperatures.

Although Indo-ducks are considered cold-hardy birds, their legs can freeze in spring and autumn. And in cold weather, at subzero temperatures, they should not be allowed to swim - due to the low fat content, their feathers can become icy.

Litter making

Different materials can be used for the wide bedding on which these birds are usually kept. Suitable:

• sawdust,
• wood shavings,
• straw,
• peat,
• chaff,
• flaxseed.

During the season, one Indoor will take about 10-12 kg of bedding material.

What to make bedding from

Before laying the bedding, the bottom of the house should be covered with a thin layer of lime (about a kilogram of powder per square meter). The first layer of litter can be no more than seven centimeters. Then the material must be added. By the end of the maintenance period, the height of the litter should be 20 centimeters.

Features of keeping indoor dogs in winter

Advice! If Indo-Ducks continue to be kept in the house in the winter, for breeding, the litter should be changed and be thicker than 20 centimeters so that the birds do not freeze. A new batch of ducklings cannot be placed on an old bedding. All material is completely removed, the room is disinfected, fresh material is filled in.

Indoor feeders

Do-it-yourself feeders for Indo-girls

Bird feeders are easy to make yourself. The material at hand will come in handy, usually these are not thick boards. A rectangular trough is knocked out of the boards, about two centimeters thick. To prevent the ducklings from getting into the feeder with their paws, a vertical bar must be nailed on top.

Making feeders for ducks

If you grow a little Indoor, you can make lightweight hanging feeders from old cans.

Bird Feeders

It is easy to calculate the number and length of feeders - for each indoor feed for dry food, there are at least two centimeters of the square area of ​​the feeder. And for a mash - 10 cm in length.

Important! Feeders should not be placed next to drinkers. The distance between them should be more than three meters. If this condition is not met, the Indo-women will drink more, and then return to the feeders again and overeat, consuming more feed.

Video - Feeders and drinkers for muscovy ducks

Water rate

Drinking water norm

Water is very important for Indo-girls. It should always be abundant, fresh and of good quality.

For ducklings a day is necessary in the first week of life	100 ml of water for each.
In the second	150 ml each.
In the third	the rate increases to 250 ml.
In the fourth	up to 300 ml.
An adult Indo-woman consumes a day	up to half a liter of water.

Norms and characteristics of feed

What to feed the ducks

Indoor women need a variety of food for good nutrition and good development. In feeding, cereals, legumes, protein, green and vegetable products, as well as vitamin and mineral supplements are used. Cereals and legumes should make up at least half of the diet. Animal feed - suppliers of complete protein - dairy and meat products, canned fish. They are needed for the rapid growth and weight gain of birds. Vegetables and greens increase the biological value of food, provide vitamins. Indo-ducks willingly eat any greens; from vegetables they prefer carrots, beets, zucchini, potatoes, pumpkin and cabbage.

To supply the birds with minerals, crushed shells, chalk powder, bone meal, a little table or sea salt are added to their food. A free-standing small feeder should always contain fine gravel.

One adult Indo-duck eats about 350 grams of feed per day. If the birds are on the walk all day, it is quite possible to reduce the amount of feed to 250-200 grams per day.

Feed requirements table

Name of feed	Winter season	Spring season	Summer season	Autumn season
Wheat grain	30 g	60 g	30 g	10 g
Barley grain	20 g	30 g	30 g	20 g
Oats or oat bran	20 g	20 g	20 g	20 g
Wheat bran	15 g	20 g	not required	10 g
Meat bone meal or fish bone meal	10 g	15 g	not required	not required
Raw beets	20 g	not required	not required	30 g
Raw potatoes	30 g	40 g	not required	60 g
Chopped silage	20 g	20 g	not required	not required
Mineral additives (shells, chalk)	8 g	12 g	8 g	5 g
Salt	1 g	1 g	not required	1 g

As you can see, Indo-ducks are very promising for breeding by poultry, which breed easily, are unpretentious in food and living conditions, and are resistant to diseases and cold. They allow you to get high productivity at the lowest cost. Growing Indo-Ducks is not a big deal. Subject to the simple rules and conditions of investing in the cultivation of Indo-dogs, they will certainly meet expectations and bring good results.

Video - How to feed the ducks. How to make duck food

The correct name for Indo-duck is musky ducks. It is a breed of wood ducks that were domesticated by the Aztecs in Latin America. A little later, it was brought to Africa, Europe, and then spread throughout the world. The topic of this article is "Indoor women: breeding, maintenance and care at home"

Indoor women: breeding, maintenance and care at home

Who are the Indo-girls?

In Russia, they learned about this breed in the early 80s of the XX century. Indo-duck differs from ordinary domestic ducks in appearance, size, and characteristics of meat. It is considered dietary and tastes like a mixture of duck and goose meat. In Europe, they appreciate not only meat, but also the fatty liver of the Indo-duck, which is considered a delicacy.

Duck liver

Distinctive characteristics

There are several breeds of Indo-Ducks bred specifically for the household. They differ in plumage color:

• white;
• brownish;
• reddish brown or red;
• white and black or multi-colored.

Individuals of different colors

Regardless of the color of the color, all Indo-women have common features:

1. Lack of down, hard plumage.
2. Lean meat.
3. The body is long, elliptical, the head is medium in size, the neck is thickened.
4. There is an outgrowth on the beak: in a drake at the base of the beak, and in females in the upper part.
5. Good immunity; among poultry, they are the least susceptible to various infections and diseases.
6. They retain the instinct to fly.
7. Caring parents: I bring up chicks until they become completely independent.
8. They prefer plant foods.
9. The average growing time for meat is 60 days, at this age the carcass weight is about 2.5 kg.
10. Average rearing time for laying eggs is 10 months. From this age, the bird lays up to 120 eggs per year. The eggs have a yellow-white shell and an average weight of about 80 g.

Indo-duck is often called mute

Indo-duck is often called mute. They received such a nickname for their characteristic quiet hiss, which replaces the cackle and cry inherent in other poultry. This makes the breed even more attractive for home breeding due to the absence of unpleasant noise.

Conditions of detention

To get a good result and grow an Indoor, you need to follow simple care rules.

Indoor content

General rules

1. Despite the fact that Indo-Ducks are not considered land birds, they do not tolerate dampness in places of detention.
2. Take care of the correct resettlement. You should not settle more than four adults per square meter. If we are talking about ducklings, then their number can be increased to eight.
3. These birds are unpretentious to the temperature of keeping, it is not necessary to keep warm in their habitat.
4. It is important to keep it clean and well ventilated. Change the bedding regularly, you can make it from small sawdust or straw.
5. You can't keep birds in a cage all the time. Ducks should be walking, especially during the warmer months.It is necessary to release adults no earlier than ten o'clock in the morning, since at an earlier time they lay eggs.
6. Take care of the cleanliness of the walking area. Remove nails, miscellaneous metal parts, broken glass and other debris. Birds can swallow it or pierce its legs.
7. In warmer months, place a large basin or trough outside. You can also dig shallow grooves and fill them with water. These "ponds" will be enough for muscovy ducks to both drink and rinse.

Indoor ducklings bathe in a trough

Premises

If in countries with a hot climate, ducks of this breed can constantly live on the street, then the conditions of the middle lane allow this only in the summer. At other times of the year, you need to settle an Indoor in a special poultry house.

Equipped poultry house with nests

Its height should be about 1.8 m, and the windows should be positioned at a height of one meter. Moreover, their total area should be 1/10 of the floor area of ​​the poultry house. It is best to whitewash the walls of the duckhouse. The floor is allowed with a litter, from a net, as well as combined. In this case, the thickness of the rods is allowed at least 3 mm, and it is necessary to place the grid at a height of about 25-30 cm. The roost is made wide at a height of about 15-20 cm from the floor level.

It is necessary to observe the temperature regime

Keep the house temperature above zero degrees. During the period of laying eggs, the optimum temperature will be 18-20 degrees.

It is important to equip the feeder in the duckhouse in such a way that all individuals can eat at the same time. It should be about 10 cm high, about 25 cm wide and about 5 cm long for each bird.

Indoor feeder

For drinkers, trough-shaped containers are best suited. But watch out for their size, do not allow ducks to swim in them during the cold season.

Take care of dryness in the house, because Indo-girls do not like dampness in the room. It is also necessary to provide artificial lighting of about 5 watts per square meter.

Nest

First of all, you need to create a nest.

Nest

Step 1... Find a suitable item for nesting. You can also use a regular box made of thick cardboard as a nest. Recommended dimensions: width approx. 30 cm, depth approx. 45 cm.

Step 2. Place burlap or any other natural fabric at the bottom of the nest. Synthetic fabrics are absolutely not suitable. Make sure the sockets are darkened.

Step 3. Not far from the nest, you need to equip a feeder, as well as a container for drinking and bathing.

Step 4... You can plant up to three ducks in one nest. In this case, it is worth separating the layers from the hatching ducks.

Step 5. Protect the nest from intruding ducklings. Otherwise, the mother duck may abandon her chicks and start caring for the nailed chicks.

Step 6. After two days of incubation, you can lay up to 20 more eggs. But for this, the nest must first be expanded.

Protect the nest from intruding ducklings

Food

One of the hallmarks of Indo-Ducks is their omnivorousness. That is why breeding them, as well as keeping them, is considered a simple matter. It is worth remembering, however, that muscovy ducks need a balanced diet to gain weight and lay eggs.

Indoor food can be varied

First of all, you should take care of drinking. Birds must have constant access to water. In summer, the role of a watering hole can be played by a trough, basin or groove with water. Ducks will drink from it, and they will swim and splash in it. But in winter, bathing is prohibited, so you need to take care of a drinker that will prevent the duck from getting into it. In the winter season, each person needs water in an amount of at least 0.5 liters per day.

Birds should always have access to water

Water norms for individuals of different ages

First week	100
Second week	150
Third week	250
Fourth week	300
Adults	500

If you don't want to buy ready-made compound feed, you can make it yourself.To do this, you need to mix grains with nutrients. As the latter, dry premixes, protein in the form of peas or lupine, calcium are suitable. The cereal base can be a mixture. Required are barley, wheat, oatmeal, corn.

Grain mix for nutrition

Feeding should be done three times a day. About 10% of the total diet should be greens. In warm weather, the bird itself will find it in the yard, but in winter it must be replaced with grass flour with legumes and silage. Choose food carefully. It must contain vitamins, nutrients and trace elements necessary for this breed.

Meat and bone meal

In addition, muscovy ducks need meat and bone meal and fish meal or waste from fish and meat. Vitamins must be added to the feed. This is especially important for young individuals, as well as sick and weakened birds.

Wing clipping

Since this breed retains flight instincts, care must be taken to trim its wings. The following instructions must be observed.

Pruning scheme

Step 1. Take heavy gloves and sharp scissors. Gloves are essential so that the bird does not bite or hurt you.

Step 2... Clamp the bird between your knees.

Step 3... Spread out your wing. It is necessary to trim the longest feathers - flight feathers.

Step 4. Cut them to about half, that is, to the tubular part of the wing.

Manipulation is done with only one wing, since if both are cut off, the ability to fly will remain. This should be done once a season, but for many Indo-girls, a one-time circumcision is enough.

Indoor woman in flight

Do not cut too short, because in this case the bird will lose its attractive appearance, which is necessary to lure individuals of the opposite sex.

Video - Maintenance and care of musky ducks

Reproduction

Indo-women reproduce quite well. Many farmers note that this breed is much easier to breed than other poultry.

Male and female

Forming families

The most profitable is the raising of several families of muscovy ducks. One family is formed from 3-5 ducks and one drake. The male may be the same age as the females or about 6 weeks older. In the latter case, you can take a male from a previous hatched batch.

In order to prevent closely related crossings, it is recommended to periodically take drakes from another farm. It is possible to cross Indo-Ducks with other breeds, but the hatched offspring will lose their reproductive function.

The family can be formed when the drake reaches 20 weeks of age. Until then, it is necessary to keep them separate from each other. In spring, the fertility of ducks will be higher than at the end of summer. This is due to the seasonality of the sexual instinct. Females begin to lay eggs from the end of March. So that they begin to rush earlier, artificial conditions can be made by increasing the light day with the help of lamps.

Indoor eggs

Breeding ducklings

The female begins to nest when at least 15-20 eggs are laid. After a couple of days, she can lay up to 10 more eggs from other females. Laying hens are separated by partitions, otherwise, if foreign ducklings get in, they can throw the nest.

Two hens of muscovy ducks

The hatching time for chicks is 33-35 days. They need to be left with the duck mom for about half an hour, and then carried away under the lamp. When all the ducklings hatch and dry under the lamp, they can be returned to the duck. On average, one hen hatches from 40 to 60 ducklings in one season.

Incubator

Incubator

An incubator is considered the most efficient way to breed ducklings. In the incubator, chicks must be hatched in three stages.

Stage 1... In the first week, it is necessary to maintain a temperature of +38 degrees and a humidity of no more than 60%.

Stage 2... From the second week to the fifth, the temperature is lowered to +37 degrees, and the humidity is maintained around 45%.

Stage 3... Starting from the fifth week, the humidity is increased to 75%, and the temperature is left at the same level.

On days 33-34, ducklings usually appear.

Raising chicks

Healthy musk ducklings weigh an average of 50-70 grams. They stand confidently on their feet, their fluff is yellow and shiny. If the chicks are raised without a duck, then at first they are kept in boxes. In this case, the bottom can be covered with shavings or straw. It is necessary to heat the ducklings with a lamp with a reflector.

Indo-duck chicks

When the young are two weeks old, it is necessary to separate the boys from the girls. The fact is that drakes develop much faster and can suppress females. How to tell the sex of tiny ducklings? In boys, you can see a small rudiment of the penis in the form of a curved process, approximately 1.5-2 mm long. It is hidden in a fold of the mucous membrane of the cloaca. In females, flatish spherical thickenings can be seen in the cloaca.

Sex determination in chicks

You can walk ducklings after two weeks. It is worth remembering that if you grow them without a duck, then bathing should not be allowed until they reach the age of 1 month. When the ducklings are a little older, they can be planted on a mesh floor or deep bedding. Up to 26 weeks of age, the stocking density is 5-6 individuals per square meter, later this number is reduced to 3-4 heads.

Chicks can be fed with bran

At first, you can feed the hatched chicks with boiled eggs, bran, crushed grain, milk, herbs. A little later, after four days, they begin to give meat waste. After the tenth day, boiled potatoes are allowed. It is important to add vitamins to the drink for the first five days.

Indo-female diseases and their treatment

Despite the fact that this breed has a fairly good immunity, sometimes they still suffer from diseases and various parasites. It is very important to notice the disease in time and stop it, preventing the massive spread of the disease to the entire brood.

Pooh-eaters

The most common parasite is the downy eater. When it appears, the birds begin to behave restlessly, lose parts of their feathers, constantly make attempts to shake off the parasites. You can get rid of these pests by using a special bath. To prepare it, take a bag of purified feed sulfur and mix it with sand. Sprinkle the mixture on the infected bird. This must be done until her complete recovery. As a preventive measure, you can pour this mixture in a trough and put it out into the yard. Birds will swarm in it themselves.

An enlarged goiter begins to press on the airways and cause asphyxiation attacks

Another non-infectious disease is inflammation of the mucous membrane or goiter catarrh. This ailment may appear due to improper feeding (poor-quality feed) or due to swallowing of a foreign object (glass, nail, needle, etc.). Hosts usually notice the problem quickly with a swollen goiter and change in behavior. The bird does not eat, often keeps its beak open, while secreting a liquid with a sour odor. You can get rid of catarrh by rinsing with a weak solution of soda, and ampicillin will help with inflammation.

Avitaminosis

Some illnesses can be caused by improper care or feeding. For example, a lack of vitamin A in the diet, which is found in fresh grass, carrots, milk, pumpkin, leads to eye diseases. In winter, vitamin A can be replenished with grass meal from silage with an admixture of legumes, and in case of severe shortage, you can turn to the use of concentrated vitamins.

Breeding benefits

Indoor male

For those who are going to keep Indook, it is certainly important to know the benefits of breeding these birds.

1. Easy to grow and breed. Indo-ducklings do not need a reservoir, they will be quite satisfied with a small trough, which will become both a drinking bowl, and a place for splashing, and teaching the cubs to swim. Special conditions for breeding are not required, an ordinary courtyard will do.
2. Unpretentiousness in food.In the warm summer, you can easily save on feed, because the birds themselves will find their own food in the form of grass or insects. In general, these birds are quite omnivorous, so even in winter there will be no problems with food.
3. Good survival rate. Strong immunity allows these birds to tolerate many diseases and infections that kill other breeds of poultry.
4. Fast growth. In just a couple of months, chicks grow into adults and are already suitable for slaughter for meat.
5. Great character. Muscovy ducks are non-aggressive, get along well with other representatives of birds and do not create conflict situations. In addition, they do not giggle or shout. This provides peace of mind to the owners and their neighbors.
6. Excellent characteristics of meat and eggs. Indo-duck meat is low-fat, dietary. Many people highly value it, noting the lack of a specific taste inherent in other waterfowl. Meat is more expensive than chicken. The same goes for eggs. Due to the fact that they are not as common as chicken, they are more expensive. In addition, they are characterized by a high content of protein and carotenoids.

Sale of meat and eggs

Indo-duck meat

Muscovy ducks are raised not only for personal needs. Many are setting up their own businesses selling meat and eggs. Indoor meat is tasty and dietary, many people value it much more than chicken, so they are ready to pay. Eggs also sell for a higher price than chicken eggs. This is due to the increased protein content.

Indo-duck eggs are more valuable than chicken eggs

In order to establish your own business, raising muscovy ducks, you need to start a small number of individuals for the first time. When you understand the rules of care and rearing, increase the number to at least 100 heads. Adjust the breeding so that slaughter occurs every month. The average weight of an adult duck is 2.5-3 kg. Males can weigh up to 6 kg. The average egg production of one Indo-female is 100-110 eggs per year, each weighing 80 g.

Indo-female breeding is a profitable business

You can sell meat and eggs by ad, at a local producers' fair, and also try to negotiate with food outlets or shops. The profit will depend on many factors. Livestock breeders who are already breeding Indo-cows for sale claim that the profit from a small farm is around US $ 250 per month.

Indo-ducks, otherwise called musky ducks, are quite widespread in Europe due to their excellent lean meat. In their natural environment, these large birds can be seen in Mexico and some other countries in South America. Lack of pickiness in food and care, the ability to survive makes these wonderful birds ideal for growing at home.

Benefits of breeding Indo-dogs at home

• Excellent meat - lean, tasty, dietary, without the specific taste characteristic of waterfowl meat.
• Do not need a reservoir. An ordinary trough - a drinking trough will successfully replace it: the birds will use water here and teach small chickens to swim.
• They do not require special conditions for breeding.
• They do not need special food, and you can save a lot on food in the summer.
• Disease resistant.
• Quiet enough bird, will not create discomfort for the owners (it is not for nothing that one of its names is “dumb duck”).
• Remarkable growth rates: in 2 months the chick reaches sufficient weight to obtain the required amount of meat.
• An additional product - eggs, rich in protein and carotenoids.

Features of musk ducks

Indo-woman is inherent wide chest and small neck, short legs and powerful wings. The average weight of a drake can reach 6 kg (with a length of up to 90 cm), ducks - up to 3-3.5 kg (length 60 cm). The color is different depending on the breed. There are special red growths on the head at eye level and under the beak. In older birds, they emit a strong musky smell, hence the name.The video shows what these large representatives of the feathered world look like.

Indoor breeding

Room preparation

Despite its unpretentiousness, the musk duck will not be able to get along with other representatives of the animal world, therefore it is advisable build a separate house for her... This bird is just perfect to grow at home! The choice of a room for a duck house should be approached with all seriousness: it should be warm enough in winter, but not hot in summer heat. It is imperative to ensure ventilation and absence of moisture. To prevent the birds from pecking at each other, the lighting should not be bright, it is recommended to paint the light bulb with orange or red paint.

If possible, the duck house can be placed in a summer cottage, or in the courtyard of a private house. In this case, lightweight collapsible structures will be ideal. During the winter, the dwelling of the Indo-dwellers will need to be thoroughly strengthened.

The arrangement of the duck house depends on the size that a novice poultry breeder has. If the room is impressive, most of it should be covered with a net with medium-sized cells, on which the bedding should be placed in a dense layer: sawdust, straw. It is very important to carefully insulate the floor, because due to the peculiarities of the structure of the paws of the indo very sensitive to cold... The calculation of the required area for birds is simple: one individual requires 1.5 meters of living space.

If the size of the dwelling is small, this option is suitable: place the Indoor in cells located one below the other. You can make them yourself (from wood and metal mesh) or you can buy ready-made ones. To maintain cleanliness in the cage, its back wall is made slightly lower than the front one so that the bird's excrement moves there. It is highly desirable to equip the musky ducks and a yard for walking: they love the sun and fresh air.

When the room itself is ready, you should take care of his equipment.

• Feeders. For every five indoor feeds, one meter long and 25 cm wide feeder is needed;
• Drinking bowls. It is better to choose narrow options so that the ducks do not try to swim in drinking water.
• Perch. By stacking several logs one on top of the other, you can get a wonderful duck roost. It should be placed at some distance from the wall and made no more than 40 cm high.
• Nests. For breeding Indo-ducks, nests should be placed next to the drinkers; you can make them in a cardboard box or a basin: lay rags, straw on the bottom. The bird will find the nest, warm it down and lay eggs. The number of nests depends on the size of the flock: each duck should have its own.
• Heating devices. They will be required for winter time, additional heating should be used early enough, as soon as the temperature reaches 5 degrees. For these purposes, heaters, stove stoves, electric lamps are suitable.

Bird purchases

The most successful solution would be to purchase a young Indo-woman per brood year... After a while, she will be able to please the owner with the first offspring.

The best time to acquire birds is the first half of autumn, when the young have already formed into drakes and ducks. An important step, on which the success of breeding largely depends, is the choice of the breed. The most popular are the following musky ducks:

• white;
• black and white;
• brown-white;
• black;
• blue;
• white with a pattern.

All these breeds of ducks are characterized by rapid weight gain, therefore ideal for breeding for meat. Their content does not require large investments or experience.

Hatchery hatching at home is easy!

Incubation mode is divided into three periods:

1. First week: temperature 38 degrees, humidity 60%.
2. Days 8-29: temperature drops to 37 degrees, humidity - up to 45%.
3. Days 30-34: The temperature remains the same, the humidity should be increased to 75%.

If eggs are placed horizontally, ducklings will hatch better, but if they are placed vertically in the incubator, they will fit more.

Growing

The best start for beginners is 30 birds, but if home conditions do not allow for such a wide range, you can reduce the number of birds. For every five Indo-girls, you should definitely purchase one drake.

Indo-girls start to rush from April, the number of eggs is about twenty... The incubation period is more than a month, it is not uncommon for it to exceed 40 days! The hatched chicks are covered with down, weigh up to 70 grams and stand on their own. Birds have a very developed maternal instinct: they perfectly hatch and take care of chicks. When the bird leaves the nest, the clutch should be sprayed to improve gas exchange in the egg. Raising adult ducks from chickens will not require much work, the main thing is to conscientiously look after the birds.

The slaughter of birds can be determined using the example of French farms: drake - after 85 days and duck - after 70 days.

Feeding

The muscovy duck is very unpretentious in food, but feed her in a balanced way... It is contraindicated to give birds warm or hot food, the basis of the diet is cereals: corn, barley, wheat, oats. Do not forget to give the birds vegetables, herbs, additives - yeast, bran, cake, meat and bone meal, and sometimes pamper the dish adored by birds - porridge with herbs. In summer, birds will enjoy eating fresh grass. The daily intake of an adult muscovy duck is a liter of water and about 400 grams of feed. How to prepare food for birds and feed them can be seen in the video.

To provide the eggs with a strong shell, chalk, crushed shells, and shells should be added to the feed. Be sure to place a container with fine gravel in the duck room: it is necessary for digestive processes.

It is especially important to organize the correct feeding of the chickens, therefore it is described in detail: day-old chicks should treat to a hard-boiled egg... Babies can only eat food that is mobile, so food is poured on their backs. On the second - third days, you can already give a mixture of milk, bran and boiled eggs. Next, the chickens are fed with mash of cottage cheese, chopped onion and spinach, a small amount of crushed grain, from the fifth day, finely chopped boiled meat leftovers are added to this mixture. From the tenth day, boiled potatoes are included in the diet.

Care

Birds do not tolerate musty air, so airing should become a habit of a caring owner. In addition, the litter should be cleaned regularly. Also, maintenance involves regular balanced feeding and ensuring the availability of clean water.

The duck loves to walk in the fresh air, so walking should be organized... In summer, muscovy ducks can walk on fresh grass, and in winter, a thick layer of straw should be laid on the snow for their delicate legs. The video shows successful examples of breeding and keeping these birds at home.

It's important to know!

If the birds begin to pluck each other's feathers, then this is a signal for the owner: in this way they are trying to compensate for the poor diet. It should be diversified with vitamins and herbs.

Daily chicks should definitely remove wing tipsso that the birds do not fly, then treat the cuts with potassium permanganate or hydrogen peroxide. If this is done to adults, they will stop laying eggs.

Birds can accidentally swallow small metal objects such as a rivet, a nail, or a piece of wire, causing death. It is necessary to ensure that such things do not fall into the habitat of the herd.

Keeping ducks in winter has some specifics. Birds should be protected from hypothermia. Of course, they will survive severe winter frosts without much care, but productivity will decrease.

Keeping Indo-girls at home is not a particularly troublesome and exciting business, which allows you to get delicious dietary meat both for home consumption and for sale.

Recently, poultry farmers are increasingly interested in muscovy ducks (Indo-duck).Breeding, keeping, caring for these birds at home have some peculiarities.

general information

What are Indo-girls? Breeding, maintenance, home care are not yet so popular in our country. Muscovy ducks differ from other breeds and can be classified as a transitional type between geese and ducks.

Indo-ducks are popular for their lean meat, good egg production and ease of maintenance. They behave non-aggressively towards other birds and do not make loud noises. Muscovy ducks do not quack, but hiss, which makes it convenient to keep them close to home.

Indo-girls are characterized by the following features:

• lean meat;
• hard plumage;
• a simple diet of mainly greens;
• the ability to fly and the instinct to fly;
• strong parental instinct.

A distinctive feature of muscovy ducks is the coral growths at the base of the beak, resembling a bump. Ducks can be black and white, brown or white in plumage color.

Why breed an Indoor

How can Indo-girls be useful? Breeding, maintenance, care at home are interesting for novice poultry breeders and those who want to build their own business in the field of agriculture.

Indo-duck, mute, musk duck - these are the names of one species of birds. Their original name is musky, because of their characteristic scent. Indoor birds are called because of the growth over the beak, similar to the growth of a turkey. Shipunami - because of the sounds made.

Ducks are bred for meat and eggs. Sale of chickens is possible. Let's consider these aspects in more detail.

Meat and eggs

Indoor breeding at home is suitable for domestic poultry farming. They relate primarily to the meat sector and can give a good meat yield compared to other breeds. Muscovy ducks grow quickly when fed well. The meat is lean, tender.

Shipunov are considered promising for doing business. With good care, ducklings are able to gain the minimum slaughter weight by the thirteenth week, and the optimal one for sale by the twentieth. Young animals are not kept for sale longer than 24 weeks, as the bird begins to fatten. Duck eggs are also used for sale.

A muscovy duck can carry 80-110 eggs with an average weight of 70 grams per year. Birds lay eggs only twice a year, in autumn and spring, for several months.

Due to the seasonality, it will not be possible to sell duck eggs all year round. But you can still make money on eggs. Muscovy ducks at the beginning of clutch are very productive, hatchability of ducklings is high, more than 90%. This is a good hatching egg and is expensive.

There should be 3-5 ducks per drake. If there are more of them, then the proportion of fertilized eggs will decrease. If less, then females will be difficult due to frequent harassment.

Males are much larger than females, their weight is 5-6 kg versus 3 kg in females. There are times when drakes injure ducks. Indoor breeding and for sale will be better if the recommended ratio of 1 drake to 3-5 females is maintained.

Sale of ducklings

Muscovy ducks are good brood hens, so selling ducklings is also beneficial. You need to know that the musk duck starts hatching only after a significant number of eggs, 15-20 eggs, have accumulated in the nest. Incubation lasts 30-35 days. The first hatched ducklings must be taken out of the nest immediately, otherwise the duck will not sit out the remaining eggs. It is better to raise babies on your own, since the mute ears are scattered enough and can simply lose some of the ducklings.

You should be aware of a few more features of Indo-egg eggs. Breeding at home in an incubator is not as effective as hatching by the mother. Also, regardless of the method of incubation in the clutch, more than 60% of the chicks will be drakes. This is a good tendency for ducks to be bred for meat as they are larger.

Advantages

Indoor breeding at home for beginners is suitable, since these birds are unpretentious.Mute are hardy, resistant to avian diseases and can do without a reservoir. Indo-ducks are not aggressive towards other birds, keep aloof in the yard, do not provoke fights.

Muscovy ducks grow quickly, reaching readiness early. In terms of dietary and taste qualities, Indo-meat meat is superior to chicken. It is gentle, soft, suitable for dietary nutrition.

Muscovy ducks are almost omnivorous. They eat greens, food waste, earthworms and other insects. The mortality rate in Indo-Ducks is low, even among young animals. The birds are resistant to various diseases. Mutees become sexually mature at the age of 180-210 days.

Premises, equipment and inventory

What do birds like Indo-birds need? Breeding, maintenance, home care will require some financial costs. In countries with warm climates or in temperate summer climates, birds can live free-range. In cold weather, they should be placed in a house at least 1.8 meters high. The windows are located at a height of one meter, their total area should be 10% of the floor area. For every meter of ducklings, there should be 2-3 individuals, no more.

In the duckhouse, artificial lighting of 5 W per 1 sq. m. The walls need to be whitewashed. The floor can be littered, mesh or combined. The thickness of the mesh rods is at least 3 mm, it must be placed at a height of 25-30 cm from the floor. Manhole for ducks at a height of 5-8 cm from the floor, 40x40cm.

The temperature in the duckhouse should not drop below zero. During the laying period, the optimum temperature is 18-20 degrees. Indo-women are afraid of dampness, so good ventilation is needed. A wide roost is needed for ducks, in the form of a bench 15-20 cm wide at a height of 15-20 cm from the floor.

Feeders should be positioned so that all livestock can feed at the same time. Feeder height - 10 cm, width - 25 cm, length - at least 5 cm per head. It is recommended to use trough-shaped drinkers, but small, so that birds do not use them for bathing, especially in winter.

In a dark place, place the 40x50x50cm plywood nests with a threshold no higher than 10 cm. The bottom of the nest can be covered with wood shavings or straw, sawdust will not work. There is one nest for every 2-3 ducks.

Ducks are released for walking in the afternoon. The walking yard is fenced off with a fence of at least two meters. If the fence is smaller, then the wings of the birds are clipped. The bathing container must be at least 15 liters. Indoor women do not need a large open reservoir, you can limit yourself to a small pond or a groove.

Feeding basics

Breeding and keeping Indo-Ducks at home is considered easy, including due to the omnivorous nature of birds. But do not forget that in order for ducks to gain weight and rush well, their nutrition must be balanced. Birds should receive mineral feed.

If you are fascinated by indoor dogs, breeding, keeping, caring for, feeding at home, then you should understand that these birds need constant access to water. At the same time, keep in mind that they cannot swim in winter, but at the same time each duck can drink a liter of water per day. You need to think about what the drinking bowl will be.

You need to feed three times a day. Greens should be at least 10% of the feed. Indo-ducks are herbivores and grass must be fed constantly. There are two well-proven methods of feeding Indo-duck.

The first is compound feed with added vitamins. The choice of feed must be approached responsibly, since it must fully satisfy all the needs of the bird in nutrients, vitamins and trace elements.

The second way is to eat cereals with added nutrients. Cereals are combined with dry premixes, calcium, vegetable protein (peas, lupine). The grain mixture itself should be varied in composition. The required minimum is oats, barley, wheat and corn.

Indoor women also need fish, meat and bone meal or dairy products, fish and meat waste.Premixes are necessary in the absence of complete feed. They improve growth, egg production, and increase muscle mass. They can be both universal and specialized, suitable for a specific species and age of the bird.

Fat-soluble or water-soluble vitamins must be added to the feed. Young birds, sick and weakened birds have a higher need for vitamins. When exposed to stress factors, the need for vitamins increases 2-4 times.

Forming families

It is more profitable to grow several families of Indo-duck at the same time. 3-5 females and a male of the same age or 1.5 months older (from the previous farmed batch). In order to exclude closely related crossbreeding, drakes need to be periodically changed to birds from another farm.

The family is formed from spring ducklings when the males reach 20 weeks of age. Until then, they are kept separately. Mute ducks can be crossed with other types of ducks, but such offspring will be sterile.

Sexual intercourse in ducks is seasonal, therefore, egg fertilization is much higher in spring than at the end of summer. Oviposition begins at the end of March, an earlier start can be triggered by increasing daylight hours with artificial lighting. During the year, 100 eggs weighing 70 grams can be obtained from each female.

Breeding ducklings

Eggs intended for incubation are removed from the nest every day and stored indoors at a temperature of 15 degrees. Each must be stamped with the date of removal. To maintain moisture, a container of water is placed near the eggs. They need to be stored for 15-18 days, then they will acquire optimal incubation properties.

The female nests when 15-20 eggs are laid. After 2-3 days, another 20 eggs from other ducks can be placed under the hen. During the season, you can get from one hen 2-3 broods of 20 ducklings in each.

If several ducks are sitting on the nest, then they need to be separated by partitions. Alien ducklings are not allowed to the brood hen, otherwise it will leave the nest. Chicks leave the nest after 33-35 days of incubation. They are left with their mother for 30 minutes, after which they are carried away under the lamp. After all the chicks hatch and dry, they can be returned to their mother or continue growing without her.

Raising ducklings

How fast do Indo-girls grow? Breeding and keeping at home muscovy ducks has its own characteristics. Healthy ducklings weigh 50-70 grams. They stand well on their feet, the fluff is yellow, shiny.

Breeding, keeping, caring for Indo-women at home is not difficult, but young animals need to be monitored especially carefully. The first days of the ducklings are kept in a cardboard box covered with large wood shavings or straw. Children are warmed up with a lamp with a reflector.

At two weeks of age, the drakes are separated from the ducks and kept separately. This must be done due to the fact that males develop much faster and will suppress weak females.

Grown-up ducklings are raised on deep litter or mesh floor. Stocking density 5-6 heads per meter up to 26 weeks, 3-4 after. The ducklings are released for walking when they reach the age of 2 weeks. If the babies are brought up separately from the mother, then they should not be bathed until they are one month old.

In the early days, boiled eggs, milk, bran, cottage cheese, herbs, and crushed grain are used as feed. Already on the fourth day, you can give meat waste, on the tenth - boiled potatoes. In the first 5 days, vitamins are added to the water.

Sales and profit making

Breeding and caring for Indo-women at home is possible not only for your own needs. You can build your business on this. To make a profit, you need to keep at least 100 heads, but it's better to start with a smaller number in order to understand the intricacies of care.

There should be no problems with sales, since Indo-duck meat is tasty, dietary. You can arrange sales to shops and food service outlets. To increase sales, be sure to use the Internet. Poultry breeding should be planned so that a batch of poultry is ready for slaughter every month.A small farm can generate a profit of $ 250 per month.