Breeding indoutok in an incubator

Indian ducks are a popular poultry. The breed is not whimsical, that is, it is not difficult to create comfortable conditions for their living. With proper care, you stock up on delicious meat for the whole season.

From their ancestors, these birds inherited specific features of appearance. The features include: a wide chest, a small neck, powerful wings. Sometimes there are birds with bare patches of skin near the eyes.

The advantages of this breed

• Unpretentious in food. They are owners of a good digestive apparatus, that is, they can eat any food. They drink a small amount of water, they do not need to arrange a reservoir.
• They inherited strong immunity from their ancestors. Due to this property, the survival rate is high.
• They are considered precocious, since in three months the live weight of a bird can reach three kilograms. The maturation of drakes is slower, their weight in three months will be six kilograms.

Disadvantages of content indoutok

• The chicks may start pecking at each other. If you keep a large number of birds, then cases of cannibalism will begin to appear among the ducklings. Ducklings pluck the feathers of the weak. At the sight of blood, they begin more aggressive actions towards other chicks, which may end in the death of weak chicks. It is very important to identify and deal with this problem.
• The second drawback is that birds love to absorb sparkling objects. During the arrangement of the place for the birds to live, it is worth removing: wire, pieces of mirrors, shiny objects. They can be the main cause of animal death.

Incubation of eggs of an indochka

If you want to get offspring every year, then you need to create artificial conditions for their breeding. eggs are highly hatchable. Factors that make Muscovy duck breeding popular: hatchability, fast growth, high survival rate.

If you follow all the conditions in the incubator , then in the end you can get good offspring. First of all, it is necessary to monitor the temperature, humidity levels, and control ventilation.

Features of the incubation of musky ducks:

• The incubation period is much longer than that of other birds.
• No more than four ducks fall on one drake.
• Ducks lay their eggs early in the morning. The process ends at noon.

Necessary conditions for the hatching of poultry by the incubation method:

1. Pick up high-quality material, that is, an indochka egg.
2. Follow all the rules for preparing eggs for placement in the incubator .
3. Consider all incubation parameters.

Egg selection stage

Before the incubation regime, you need to choose good eggs according to criteria such as shape, size, appearance. Eggs will not work:

• Long or round like a ball.
• Coated with bloom.
• Eggs are green or blue. This color scheme indicates damaged materials.
• Small in size. Often they will make frail chicks.
• Large. They usually contain two yolks.

Prerequisite: all eggs are inspected with an ovoscope . During the study, they will find out the number of proteins and yolks, the approximate thickness of the shell. Quality material: under the device you can see the presence of the embryo in the yolk. Do not use eggs with dark spots on the shell.

Good material:

1. Oval, medium in size.
2. The shell is clean, without damage.
3. As a result of inspection under the device without any deviations.

Never try to wash eggs. Contaminated shells can be scraped off.

Shelf life affects the percentage of hatchability. In this table, you can see the ratio of storage periods and hatchability of chicks.

Useful Incubator Facts

The main function is to get chicks without a hen. Choose a device depending on the technical characteristics. The simplest incubators are perfect for home use. The temperature regime is maintained thanks to the built-in thermostat.

More modern models have a water tank included. Water is poured into the container in order to maintain a certain level of moisture. Expensive models turn eggs automatically.

Temperature regime and moisture level during the incubation period

Poultry farmers take into account the incubation temperature and humidity level in order to achieve a high level of hatchability. The temperature varies depending on the incubation period.

Correlation of data in different periods

• On the 7th day of incubation, the temperature should be no more than 38 degrees. The percentage of humidity should not exceed 60%.
• By the fourteenth day, the temperature should be reduced to 37.8 degrees. Humidity level of at least fifty percent.
• Thirtieth day : temperature no more than 37.7 degrees, humidity - 50%.
• Thirty-fourth : humidity - eighty percent, temperature - 37.2.

High moisture levels can cause the eggs to warm up. In the last period, it is necessary to monitor the maintenance of moisture, as it helps to soften the shell.

See also: Proper incubation of duck eggs at home.

Briefly about the incubation schedule

Ducks begin hatching by about day 32, and pecking begins as early as the thirty-first day. The exact line of hatchability of chicks is the thirty-second day. The hatchability of the bird is gaining mass at the onset of 33 days. The conclusion of indoutok ends on the thirty-fourth day.

You can use formaldehyde to help chicks come into the world. If there is a mother hen on the farm, she can be entrusted with the further care of small chicks. Keep the chicks in a temperature regime of no more than 35 degrees, feed them with compound feed. After some time, lower the temperature to twenty-eight degrees. In no case do not plant the chicks in sawdust, it is necessary to transplant them into a special place covered with paper.

Useful video about Muscovy duck incubation