Feeding Ducklings - Important Steps For Beginners On Raising Baby Ducks

If you're raising ducks for profit, know that
your ducks' overall health has a direct
influence on the profitability of your business.
This means that if you want to rake in the
profits, you'll have to learn about feeding baby
ducks properly. Feed ducklings with wet started
mash for 8 weeks. Native ducklings raised the
native way are feed moistened boiled rice for
the first 33 weeks, 4 to 5 times a day. During
the first few days, give feed at night. Start
giving water in drinking troughs or fountains on
the 2nd day. On the fifth day, add finely chopped
small shrimps to boiled rice. Increase their feed
as ducklings grow older.

At the age of one month, feed ducklings with
tiny fresh water snails and boiled unhulled
rice. Give only enough feed to be consumed as
they tend to spoil when left long in the
troughs. Mash feed for ducklings is composed of
corn, soybean meal, fish meal, dried whey, rice
bran with oyster shell and bone meal with
vitamin-mineral supplements. Feed one day to
6-week old ducklings with starter mash with
10-21% crude protein; for 6-week old to 4-month
old duckling with grower mash with 16% crude
protein; and 4-month old ducks and above with
layer mash or ratio wit 16% crude protein.

If mash feed is preferred, give only enough to
be consumed quickly at one time for 10 to 15
minutes. Wet mash tends to spoil when left long
in hoppers. If feed is given at intervals,
ducklings learn to eat more readily and their
appetites are developed to stuff themselves in
between drinks, digest food quickly and be ready
to eat their fill for the next feeding time.

Four to five feedings a day are sufficient for
ducklings over 2 weeks old. Provide plenty of
clean, fresh water as ducks drink after every
mouthful of food. When they mature, you'll have
to go about feeding baby ducks using chicken
grower pellet feed, corn-grain scratch feed, and
insoluble poultry feed. Customize your feeding
schedule according to the habits of your
ducklings, and switch to more protein-rich feeds
once they turn into ducks.

Ducks are wasteful and slovenly while feeding.
Provide proper adequate feeding hoppers to
prevent much waste of food. Fine gravel or grit
is necessary to growing ducks to help them grind
their feed. As a feed-saving device, the pellet
system of feeding has been introduced in duck
nutrition.

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Pellets of each kind of feed are recommended for
duck feeding but the size of particles must be
suitable to duck's age. Learn more tips about
feeding ducklings and raising baby ducks at
http://www.howtoraiseducks.com

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