Avian Production Management

HOUSING

• In general, ducks do not require elaborate houses. The house should be well ventilated, dry, and rat proof.
• In semi intensive system of rearing, the house should have easy access to outside run as the ducks prefer to come out during the day time, winter and rainy time.
• The run should have slope away from the house to provide drainage.
• In the house of semi intensive system, a continuous water channel of size 50 cm wide and 15-20 cms depth should be constructed at the far end, on the both sides, parallel to the pen in the grower and layer house.