Homemade Duck Food

How to save the cost of duck food?

Duck food must have the following: -

Carbohydrates

Available from a wheat, rice, soy husks, and other nuts, but do not use coconut husks, palm husks, malt husks, or husks of a hot and oily condition as this may cause damage to the newly formed egg in the duck's stomach.

Protein

A waste from the chicken after slaughtered like skin, fat, intestine, head and others. 

Reject fish, that can be found from the base of a fishing boat, this fish is fresh and  caught by fishermen but cannot be sold in the market as fry and some types of worthless fish. This fish is known by several names such as trash fish, rotten fish, reject fish and others.

All these materials need to be boiled, crushed and mixed with the carbohydrate before given to the ducks.

Minerals / Calcium

Materials needed for the formation of ducks bones and good eggsshell.The easiest material is bone meal that can be bought from the market. Materials such as seashell, fish bones, chicken bones, beef bones (has to be crushed),  also can be used.

Apart from that, the sand also can be used, try to put some sand in the house, look in a few days, the sand will disappear. Why?  sand also is a type  of mineral and ducks will eat it.

Fiber

Plant elements such as grasses, vegetable waste from markets, banana fiber and others are also important in the diet of ducks.

Vitamin

Can be purchased from pet shops. Known as vitamin pre-mix.

Egg Yolk Redden

Known as Carophyll, Xantrophyll or Syntethic Pigment. Functioning as a dye to redden the duck egg yolk. Why? as consumers in the market like a red egg yolks in salted egg. 

Alternatives to Carophyll is fish (protein). For example, for every 60 kg of cooked rice mixed with 40 kg of fish, bringing the total to 60% rice 40% fish. Additionally also add minerals, vitamins and fiber.With this rate, is enough to induce ducks to produce more eggs, larger eggs and turning the egg yolks into  red. You can try it yourself, if the red colour is not enough, add more fish percentage until you satisfied.