The reproductive characteristics of cannabis duck
August 16, 2024
The local people of the cannabis duck are also known as the horse-duck. The adult drake has beautiful feathers. Its head and neck feathers are black and green, and the female feathers are relatively compact. The plumage is full of feathers, and there are banded white feathers (white eyebrows) above the eyes. Freshly hatched young ducks have dark purple hair and two symmetrical yellow spots (four ducks) on the left and right sides of the back.
Hemp ducks are huge in size. The average weight of adult male ducks is 2.66 kilograms, 2.5 kilograms of female ducks, 3.75 kilograms of the largest male ducks, 4.15 kilograms of the largest female ducks, 22 to 24 centimeters of males and 21 to 23 centimeters of female ducks.
Ducklings can grow up to 2.55 kilograms with compound feed for 70 days, and can grow up to 2.5 kilograms by grazing and feeding natural feeds to feed corn and rice for 90 days. The female ducks began laying eggs in about 150 days. They produced 140 to 150 eggs each year, 80 to 90 grams of egg weight, and green and white eggshells. The egg insemination rate was 95.7%, and the hatching rate of fertilized eggs was 88.5%.
Jingxi cannabis duck has good fat liver function. After 10 to 15 days of fattening, it can be 100% fatty liver. The average fatty liver weight is 288.6 grams. 60 to 70 days old can be slaughtered. The corpus callosum is golden, with less subcutaneous fat, and the slaughter rate of the semi-brown carp is 84.08%. The slaughter rate of the whole net carp is 72% to 77%. The meat is delicious. Processed for duck, beautiful color, rich aroma.
