Duck Breeder

Tirtamulya (Karin) - It has become a familiar sight, post-harvest many ducks wandering around the fields. However, it was not any muck, this was the duck was escorted by the owner or peternaknya. As in Kertawaluya, Tirtamulya Karawang District. Emptiness of post-harvest agricultural land used by ranchers to treat duck-duck. Besides the availability of the remnants of the harvest for a free feed and straw for many ducks bedding, this was done in the context of the need to duck down the arena in order to grow well.


Irom, middle-aged men who are also citizens Kertawaluya (Waluya) is one of the duck farmer in question. He has as many as 500 ducks tail. According to him, diumur 1 ½ months to get off gelangang duck or in the language down to the water, after 1 ½ months on land previously cultivated in the garden of his house. Therefore, He also makes impromptu duck cages located in the rice fields that have been harvested.

Irom preserved duck this, will he sold at a price of 20 thousand perekor allocated as broiler ducks for market consumption. "Later there's usually a memborongnya middlemen," tells the Irom said Karin.

Before eventually be sold for animal pieces, these ducks were found to produce eggs that additional income Irom. However, admitted that the duck Irom which he maintained is not intended as a duck laying, because it's a different kind.


Because the duck-duck stable lodged in the field, then until later marketable Irom must accompany the duck-duck overnight. According to 'rules' in the morning until late afternoon, these ducks was loose diangon or other languages. The location could be in the field and in the river not far to the stable which he created. That way, duck-duck found freedom to grow normally and look for food in addition to the feed already was prepared.

BebekMengenai breeding land he and his colleagues gunankan, Irom admitted no complex license to the owner of the fields, even if there is only verbally. Because according to him, the farmers and the owners did not object to the fields of land used as breeding sites by the breeder ducks that local residents generally are. However, complaints from farmers rather than none at all, according komplainnya usually associated with drainage water into the fields that he and his friends did for the purposes of duck-duck, when farmers do not irrigate fields intentionally.

For this issue, he and others said the duck breeders as much as possible in coordination with the farmers. As for, hope for farmers is to control the feed price and the selling price to remain under control, considering breeding duck is not easy because many of the accompanying risks. (Dean Andriana) From: http://www.karawanginfo.com