What do you feed the ducks?

Ducks can eat grains and some insects. Ducks like eat small fish shrimp and earthworms.

Ducks have a wide range of foods, and different foods are given according to ducks in different periods.

1. Duckling period: Ducklings begin to eat after hatching 1 days. Before eating, you need to "boil water" (drink warm water), and you can add appropriate amount of glucose and vitamin C to the drinking water. The feed should be five-ripe rice, sprinkled on bamboo mats, and let the ducklings peck freely, feeding it 6~8 times a day.

2.4-day-old ducks: after 4 days, change to boiled wheat or complete compound feed and feed it 4-5 times a day.

3. Duck 15 days old: After 15 days old, feed it three times a day. Three days after the ducklings begin to eat, animal protein feed should be added, and small fish, shrimp, mussels, crabs and earthworms should be chopped and mixed with food to feed.

In addition, a proper amount of green feed should be added to the ducklings, which can be chopped and mixed with food or directly sprinkled on bamboo mats for them to eat freely.

Extended data:

Living habits of ducks:

First of all, I prefer water

Ducks are good at foraging, playing and courtship in the water. Duck's tail gland is developed, which can secrete oil containing fat, lecithin and higher alcohols. When ducks comb their feathers, they often use their beaks to press the tail glands to squeeze out grease, and then use their beaks to evenly spread it on the whole body feathers, so as to moisten the feathers and prevent them from being soaked by water, thus effectively playing the roles of waterproof, moisture-proof and cold-proof.

However, love the water doesn't mean that ducks like humid environment, because humid habitat is not conducive to duck's heat preservation in winter and heat dissipation in summer, and it is easy to make duck's abdominal feathers damp, which, coupled with fecal pollution, leads to duck's feathers rotting and falling off, which is not good for duck's production performance and health.

Second, gregarious.

The ancestors of ducks like to live in groups, rarely act alone, and don't like fighting, so they are very suitable for grazing and captivity, and it is easier to manage. Ducks are docile, timid and easily frightened. As long as there are suitable feeding conditions, no matter the age of ducks, they can live in harmony when raised in mixed groups.

But when feeding, every duck in the flock must have enough feeding places, otherwise, some weak individuals will lose weight because they can't eat food.

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