Peking duck is a well-known duck broiler or duck with a fairly rapid growth. Peking duck has a characteristic white fur color when viewed similar to entok. With the rapid growth when the new one month old has reached the weight of 1.5 kg and will increase again in the months that follow. Peking duck is also known to be more resistant to disease. The equipment needed for raising peking duck is simple.
DOD Peking Duck
DOD Peking Duck
Peking duck feed is also easy to obtain such as worms, small fish from rivers and other plants such as kale and others. This duck type prefers clustered and tame. Peking duck can be taken meat and eggs, but there is also a fur that can be used as additional income.
How to breed Peking Duck?
Peking duck breeding includes breeding, fattening to cattle that are specifically oriented to the eggs. In general the maintenance of Peking Duck is the same as regular duck maintenance. Choosing a quality puppies also needs to be done and the most important is for male seeds because duck stud faster grew compared with females.
How Many Stages in Peking Duck Breeding?
There are 3 stages in breeding Peking duck:
The first stage of breeding chicks that began to be treated at the age of 1-60 days. Because at the age of tillers are still quite vulnerable then the need for separation with indukannya, usually using a box enclosure given warmers. For the breeding of saplings there is a special food that has a protein content of about 20%. With the growth period of 61 to 150 days, at that time we have started preparing male and female ducks that have superior quality. The selection of male and female Ducks is placed in special enclosures, with spawn kits, stables and waters such as ponds to suit their habitat.
DOD Peking Duck
DOD Peking Duck
There are 3 Peking Duck Maintenance Systems
Intensive
Semi Intensive
Extensive
In general, the three systems are the type of intensive system that is chosen because it is considered more profitable. Intensive system that is maintenance in dikandangkan. All activities are in the cage starting from feeding and without releasing the food source area.
Dod duck cage example
Dod duck cage example
Peking Duck Feed
Provision of nutritious feed intake is necessary. Common types of feed given are bran or bran, flour shell, snail, corn flour, fish meal and so on
