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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 03 2009:
Central Agricultural University (CAU) has made all arrangements to avail a prolific egg laying variety of duck known as Khaki Cambell to interested farmers from February 2010 .
At present, Head of Animal Sciences Department, CAU Prof M Dhaneshwar is rearing 480 ducks of Khaki cambell variety as a part of integrated farming.
In addition to 480 Khaki Cambell chicks, another 140 chicks of another duck variety Vigova M Super have hatched in the department's hatchery.
The eggs were brought from National Avian Research Centre, Bangalore.
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While Khaki Cambell is a prolific layer laying eggs for at least 300 days in a year, Vigova M Super ducks are best suited for meat production.
Usually, a Khaki Cambell duck starts laying eggs on completion of three and a half month.
Saying that the ducks being reared at CAU would start laying eggs from last week of December, Prof Dhaneshwar is expecting 250 to 300 eggs daily from the 480 ducks.
These eggs would be put in incubators to produce chicks.
As it would take around 28 days for the eggs to hatch, chicks can be expected by the first week of February, he said.
The chicks thus produced at CAU would be provided to interested farmers along a week-long training on rearing this variety of chicks.
Saying that necessary measures would be taken up to produce Vigova M Super variety of ducks at CAU, Prof Dhaneshwar said that this variety of duck attains 2.5 kgs in just 42 days.
Three to five months old ducks weigh 5 to 6 kgs.
Nowadays, duck eggs are becoming popular as it contained fatty acids which help in regenerating dying cells, the Professor added.
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