Many people raise poultry and livestock at home. Why can’t chickens, ducks, and geese be mixed together?

It can be clearly said that ducks and geese cannot be mixed together. First of all, ducks and geese are waterfowl. Chickens are not suitable for living in humid places. In recent years, the government has intensively introduced various policies on breeding environmental pollution. For The requirements for farmers are even stricter.

Polyculture can be done on a small scale

In rural areas, almost every household will raise some chickens, ducks and geese, because there is food in rural households and it is easy to feed. The leftovers can also be used as food to feed chickens, ducks and geese. Moreover, you can eat authentic local eggs, local duck eggs, local goose eggs, and it is convenient to eat meat at home. Normally when guests come to the house, it would be very comfortable to fry a plate of fools and kill a local chicken.

However, rural people generally raise chickens, ducks and geese on a small scale, with only eight or ten at most. It is unrealistic to raise chickens, ducks and geese separately. Moreover, rural people raise chickens, ducks and geese in free range. What is raised in this way is the authentic local product. Therefore, in rural areas, chickens, ducks and geese are raised together. I have never heard of anyone raising them separately. They are also raising quite well, with large eggs and fat meat.

Another point is that some of the ducks raised at home can hatch chicks. The chicks my neighbor feeds every year are basically hatched at home, which is very convenient and saves trouble and worry.

Mixed breeding is generally not recommended

This is a taboo, especially in large-scale breeding farms, but in rural areas, free-range chickens and ducks can be raised in small quantities. Mixed breeding. Secondly, let’s talk about the benefits of raising chickens and ducks together. In rural areas, native chickens are raised free-range at home, and the number of chickens and ducks raised is small. For convenience, you will buy several native chickens and ducks at the same time and raise them together. This is the case in our family.

When raising chickens and ducks together, build separate pens for chickens and ducks, and let them out during the day to find food by themselves. You can set up a large basin or build a small shallow pool in the small yard for convenience. Ducks splashing in the water.

When feeding, feed grains, grass, vegetable leaves, etc. at the same time. Chickens and ducks will eat these feeds. Sometimes the leftover feeds eaten by ducks will be pecked by chickens, which will not cause feed waste. Since chicks and ducklings are raised together, although there will be fights between them, due to the large space and small number, they live in peace. Farmers can also raise chickens and ducks together at the same time, or slaughter, or Selling money is good.

What diseases are easy for chickens and ducks to get?

Chickens are terrestrial omnivorous poultry, so their preferred environment is a place with weeds, hills and woodland, and such an environment is sunny. You can take shelter in the shade and find food. Ducks are amphibious and omnivorous poultry and like environments such as fields, streams, and rivers.

To put it simply, chickens are most susceptible to avian influenza. Once infected, the mortality rate is extremely high and the infection is rapid. The most common disease in ducks is duck plague, an infectious disease caused by duck plague virus. In summary, regardless of the living habits of chickens and ducks, their growth environment, and the diseases that chickens and ducks are most likely to get, it can be seen that chickens and ducks are not suitable for breeding together.