Duck Favorite walks in the courtyard
Duck poultry is considered a lucrative industry with continuous improvement of breeds through crossbreeding. Duck Favorit, the description of the breed of which we present, was bred in Bashkiria in 1998. The Peking breed, which belongs to the meat species, is taken as a basis. The cross turned out to be successful and is in demand in farms and subsidiary plots.
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Appearance, physiological characteristics of the duck favorite
Description of the Favorit or Pharaoh duck breed as promising for commercial cultivation. Despite the declared properties as a meat cross, the Favorite of the Bashkir direction is distinguished by an egg production of 100-150 eggs per year. For a meat breed, a good result. One egg weighs 80-85 g.
The Blue Favorite breed of ducks, when stocky, has a thin skeleton. Bone weight 14% in relation to meat. Duck meat does not have a characteristic smell, it is very dense, fine-fiber. Traditionally, duck meat contains amino acids essential for humans. But it is in the muscles of the Favorit duck that an increased amount of mineral salts and animal vitamins is contained. The fat content is less than in other breeds.
The description of the Favorite duck breed would be incomplete without information on productivity. Already at 9 weeks, young ducklings weigh 2.5-3.5 kg. Adult ducks weigh about 4 kg, males can grow up to 5 kg. The birds are distinguished by their unpretentiousness to keeping conditions. If the poultry house is located near a reservoir, waterfowl will find mineral supplements on their own. The place of detention does not need insulation, even in winter. Birds are omnivorous and will eat all the waste from the table on their own household.
Numerous reviews of the Blue Favorite breed are enthusiastic. This is the best beef breed for quick marketable production. Ducklings grow faster than boilers, and there is less hassle with them.
So, the advantages of the Blue Favorite duck breed are:
- fast weight gain by young animals;
- unpretentiousness in maintenance and nutrition;
- tasty healthy meat with a low fat content;
- high egg production;
- beautiful plumage, calm disposition, friendliness.
The disadvantage is that Blue Pharaoh hens are bad, and the eggs have to be hatched in an incubator. See photo of Mulard ducks!
Maintenance of adults
The unpretentious bird lives in an unheated room on a soft bedding. After trampling down, loose material is thrown over. The bird is not afraid of either frost or heat. Birds eat mainly mash. The more silage, root crops, small steamed hay in the composition, the happier the bird. Watch a video about feeding Favorite duck:
It is necessary to organize three meals a day, 2 times raw food and once grain at night. If there is a reservoir nearby, the duck will collect crustaceans and duckweed all day.Waste from the garden - tops carrots and beets, cabbage leaves must be turned into silage by fermentation - a winter delicacy for feathered ones. The more varied the feed, the tastier the eggs and the more viable the offspring.
How to breed and feed the offspring of blue ducks correctly
In the description of the breed, the Favorite duck is characterized as a bad mother. However, in the private courtyard, the duck incubates 15 eggs, it can drive up to 30 chicks, protecting and warming everyone. Chickens are also not all good brood hens. Farms use incubators and brooders to raise babies. Chicks are hardy and it will not be difficult to raise them.
Incubatory breeding of duck Favorite from eggs lasts 28 days. The eggs are collected within a week.
Requirement for the selected material:
- an egg of a standard size and shape is selected;
- the shell must be strong and smooth;
- the shell should be free of dirty guano stains.
The laid material should be disinfected by washing from above with a slightly pink solution of potassium permanganate. Duck eggs are high in fat and need to be refrigerated to prevent overheating. Compliance with the humidity regime, turning the marked eggs will allow you to get healthy offspring with little rejection. To help with breeding ducks Favorite, we publish a microclimate table in incubator by days.
| period | temperature | humidity | turn | cooling |
| 1-7 days | 38,0 – 38,2 | 70% | 4 times / day | not |
| 8-14 days | 37,8 | 60% | 4-6 times / day | not |
| 15-25 days | 37,8 | 60% | 4-6 times / day | 2 times a day 15-20 minutes |
| 26 - until the end | 37,5 | 85-90% | not necessary | not |
The chart has been applied several times and gives the maximum duck hatch rate.
Chicks dried up in the incubator are transferred to a warm box with food and drink. You need to illuminate the kids for about 16 hours a day. The first feed consists of hard-boiled duck eggs. The first drinking water should be with potassium permanganate, pale pink. Every day the ducklings consume more food and are ready for slaughter at 2 months.
Diseases characteristic of the breed favorite
An important condition for the survival of young animals is compliance with hygienic conditions. Before the reception of the livestock, the premises are washed with soda ash. Chickens are allowed to drink water with potassium permanganate. But the immune system of chicks is still weak, they need to be protected, avoiding large crowding. If there is only one room before slaughter, 8 heads are placed in it per 1 square meter.
Drinking water must be clean, which means you need to arrange drinking bowls so that the birds do not swim in them. For bathing from two weeks of age, young animals are exposed to a trough. Balanced nutrition and good lighting will protect ducklings from vitamin deficiency, urovsky disease and cuticulitis. Infectious diseases can wipe out an entire flock. These include coccidosis, tuberculosis, and intestinal infections.
And to what sub-zero temperature can the blue favorites withstand?
If the bird is kept indoors on a bed of sawdust or straw, then no frost is afraid of it. At night indoors, and during the day, ducks calmly walk in the snow, even in severe frost. This is a cross between white fat Peking and completely dietary musky.
How to distinguish a male from a female I can't tell my favorites for four months
Males have several feathers on their tail, twisted up. Females have smooth tail feathers. This is the easiest way to check, so as not to check each individual separately.
I want to try crossing muscovy ducks and a favorite drake, I wonder what happens
Most likely the opposite. True, you will have to hatch the chicks in an incubator. When crossing the Peking duck and the musky drake, they get the popular mulard today. Chicks take weight from dad, and growth rate from mother.Perhaps you will succeed. Perhaps you will succeed.