22/12/2024
WHY KEEP DUCKS?
🟣Ducks need less expensive, simple and non-elaborate housing facilities. As a result housing costs are very less for setting up commercial duck farming business.
🟣Ducks are very hardy bird and they need less care or management. They can adopt themselves with almost all types of environmental conditions.
🟣They lay eggs either at night or in the morning. So you can collect their fresh eggs every morning :). And you can do your other work during rest of the day and you don’t have to spend time for caring your ducks.
🟣Ducks lay more eggs than chicken. Some breeds can lay upto 350 eggs per year.Duck eggs are much bigger than chicken eggs and have a higher egg yolk to egg white ratio hence most preferred by bakers.
🟣You need comparatively less space for raising ducks. Ducks have comparatively shorter brooding period and ducklings grow faster. Ducklings grow so fast that, you can dispense artificial heat within 5 to 7 days. Although they will require a little longer heating period during cold months.
🟣Ducks are highly resistant to the common poultry diseases.
🟣You can feed your ducks with a wide variety of foods. A duck’s regular food includes cassava, maize germ, broken maize(njenga), rice, fruits and any other low cost and easily available foods. They also have the natural tendency of foraging on weeds, algae, green legumes, fungi, earthworms, maggots, snails, various types of insects etc. which directly reduce feeding cost.
🟣You can also use your ducks for controlling snails or some other harmful insects from your garden.
🟣Ducks have less mortality rate and usually they live longer than chickens. In case of egg production, ducks lay eggs for a long time period.
🟣Duck products such as eggs and meat have a great demand in the local and international market. So commercial duck farming business can be a great source of earning. There are already many successful farmers who are making a high profit from their duck farming Business
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