Sunday: Ducks /Do you like ducks? / Excellent Pets / THERAPEUTIC PURPOSES IN CHILDREN
Greetings to my beloved community of farms, in my country it is already Sunday and here I am giving thanks to God for this new dawn and for this new opportunity to live. I hope everyone is well and God bless you.
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Yes now! Giving continuity to the themes planned by farms for this week, today I will talk about the DUCKS.
The duck is a species of aquatic bird that belongs to the family Anatidae, it is very beautiful, simple and pleasant, ideal to raise it at home and have it as a pet. There are wild and domestic ducks that live in both water and land. Currently the ducks are raised on farms for consumption and marketing.
Therapeutic Programs with Ducks
Therapeutic Programs with Ducks
Children love them because they are very tender, so much so that nowadays these animals are part of programs for therapeutic purposes for children with autism and Down syndrome, generating physical, psychological and social benefits, which improves their relationship with humans and children. your quality of life.
When the female is stepped on by the duck, she immediately begins to build her nest with branches, leaves and feathers that provide the proper safety and temperature for the eggs. Then the paw puts an egg daily until it reaches 8 eggs approximately, which will be incubated for a period ranging between 25 and 30 days. Afterwards, each duck breaks the shell with his beak until he gets out, from the first day of life they try to swim and procure food on their own. The life of a duck goes from 6 to 10 years.
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Ducks Reproduction
Ducks Reproduction
Physical Structure of the Ducks
Physical Structure of the Ducks
The front legs are well adapted to use water at minimum energy, without sinking into the water because they have the ability to maintain the buoyancy, but they make them walk awkwardly. They have two large wings and can also fly.
Its beak is orange or yellowish, wider at the tip than at the base, it serves to filter the water, retaining the food substances, facilitating the hunting activity of small fish. They also use it to obtain a sebaceous gland located near the tail that produces oily secretion with which it impregnates all superficial feathers until it forms an impermeable barrier. In the upper part of the peak there are small holes that serve to breathe and caw.
Where the Ducks Live
Where the Ducks Live
In relation to the habitat, the ducks live in quiet places where they have easy access to water, we can findthem in fresh waters such as ponds, lagoons, lakes, among others. When they are wild ducks they feed on what the environment offers them, mainly seeds, plants, insects, algae, fish and even in many cases they eat sand grit to be able to grind the food more easily, while when they are domestic ducks they eaten cereals of the type of oats, corn, even rice grain, which provide good nutrition and are found in any establishment.
Types of Ducks
Types of Ducks
There are many types of species which are differentiated by size and color, they have a dense and colorful plumage endowed with many very colorful reflections, of which I will mention some of them:
- Gargantillo duck or pascual gargantillo.
- Colored duck or red teal.
- Half moon duck, blue-winged teal or blue-winged bat.
- Martin duck, piquidorado duck or duck jergon.
- Blue duck or mallard.
- Peking duck white.
- Real duck.
- Jar duck.
- Spoon duck.
- Eyeglasses duck or bronzed wings.
- Crestón duck or juarjal duck.
- Mandarin duck.
- Joyuyo duck, Florida duck, huyuyo duck or Carolina duck.
- Brazilian duck, cutirí duck or duck aliverde.
- Creole duck, mute duck or musky duck; it is the domestic subspecies.
- Duckling duck, collar duck or collar teal.
- Harlequin duck.
- Diver duck, masked duck, hooded duck or iron duck.
- Güirirí duck.
Wednesday: Geese as a farm bird
Thursday: Rearing Turkeys
Friday: Chicken in poultries.
Saturday: Guinea fowl
Sunday: Ducks
Monday: Pheasant
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THEME WEEK
Wednesday: Geese as a farm bird
Thursday: Rearing Turkeys
Friday: Chicken in poultries.
Saturday: Guinea fowl
Sunday: Ducks
Monday: Pheasant
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