Microlivestock Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991) / Chapter Skim
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This development could open up vast new markets for duck meat, especially in wealthy countries, where consumers are both concerned over fat in their diet and eager for alternatives to chicken. Ducks are also efficient at converting waste resources insects, weeds, aquatic plants, and fallen seeds, for instance-into meat and eggs.
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Domestic ducks range in body size from the diminutive Call, weighing less than I kg, to the largest meat strains (Pekin, Rouen, and Aylesbury, for example) weighing as much as 4.5 kg.
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Its small body size, large egg weight, and phenomenal egg production make Brown Tsaiya the main breed for egg consumption in Taiwan. More than 2.5 million Brown Tsaiya ducks are raised annually for egg production.2 DISTRIBUTION The domestic duck is distributed throughout the world; however its greatest economic importance is in Southeast Asia, particularly in the wetland-rice areas.
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Although wild ducks normally pair off, domestic drakes will mate indiscriminately with any females in a flock. In intensively raised flocks, 1 male to 6 females, and in village flocks, 1 male for up to 25 females, results in good fertility.
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Ducks have a special fondness for mosquito and beetle larvae, grasshoppers, snails, slugs, and crustaceans, and therefore are effective pest control agents. China, in particular, uses ducks to reduce pests in rice fields.3 Its farmers also keep ducks to clear fields of scattered grain, to clear rice paddy banks of burrowing crabs, and to clear aquatic weeds and algae out of small lakes, ponds, and canals.
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ADVANTAGES Of all domestic animals, ducks are among the most versatile and useful and have multiple advantages, including: · Withstanding poor conditions; · Producing food efficiently; · Utilizing foodstuffs that normally go unharvested; · Helping to control pests; and · Helping to fertilize the soil. Also, they are readily herded (for instance, by children)
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Locking them in at night both protects the birds and prevents eggs from being wastefully laid outside. Ducks do suffer from some diseases, mainly those traceable to mismanagement such as poor diet, stagnant drinking water, moldy feed or bedding, or overcrowded and filthy conditions.
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