General information about duck cum fish farming. Masters seminar

1. Faculty of Fishery Sciences ( WBUAFS)
Duck cum Fish Farming
(course - 510)
Seminar
Topic -
Submitted By
Abdul Hannan
Mondal
M.F.Sc. 1st year
Submitted To
Prof. T. Kumar
Ghosh Sir
Dept of AQC.

2. Problems of present scenario
• Decline in agricultural growth rate
• Decline in factor production.
• Static or decline in Food production.
• Increasing malnutrition .
• Shrinkage in net cultivable area.
• Increasing environmental pollution.
• Depleting ground water level.
• Increasing cost of production.
• Low farm income.
Solution :
INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM

3. What Is Integrated Farming System (IFS)??
What is Duck cum fish farming?
What is Integrated Fish Farming(IFF)??

4. What is Integrated Farming
System??
• According to pillay (1990) : basic principle is
utilization of the synergetic effects of inter related
farm activities and conservation, including the full
utilization of farm waste.
• It is based on concept that ‘there is no waste’ and
‘waste is only a misplaced resource.’ which become
valuable material for another product.

5. Types of Integrated Fish Farming
systems:
types of IFFs
Livestock - Fish system
• cattle
• Pig
• goat or sheep
• Duck
• Poultry
• Rabbit
Agri-Fish System
• Paddy
• Horticulture
• musrums
• Sericulture
• Vermicompost

6. What is Integrated Duck-cum Fish Farming
system?
In this system the rearing of duck is combined with fish
culture by constructing duck housing units on the pond
embankment or over the pond in such a way that the
wastes are directly drained into the pond.

7. • Integration of livestock in fish culture is an old age system of
practice. Ducks, poultry, pig, cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat are
common in mixed farming.
• Due to progressive shrinking of farm area or land and increasing
population, so to obtain maximum output from mixed farming
system with livestock and fish become very popular now.
• The by-product utilization of one sub-system e.g. excreta of
livestock becomes an input to a second sub-system i.e. in fish
culture.
• To avoid environmental problems with animal excreta apart from
manure production the animal excreta could be efficiently utilized
as feed for fish and the end product is valuable animal protein,
which is very much needed in India. States like West Bengal. Orissa,
Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and North Eastern states
the demand for fish and fish products along with meat and animal
products are very high.
Introduction

8. Flow of seminar:::
Advantages of duck-cum-fish farming:
This integrated farming of fish and duck can be divided into 2 groups:
1)Fish culture practice
2)Duckery farming practice
1) Fish culture practice : pre stocking management, on stocking
management,post stocking management.
2) Duckery Farming Practice :.1) general 3 duck Farming types, 2)
construction and housing of ducks , 3) selection and numbers 4)
feeding management 5) egg laying management 6) health
management 7) harvesting and lastly production .
Conclusions and references.

9. Advantages of duck-cum-fish farming:
• Ducks are highly compatible with fishes. No additional land is
required for duckery activities.
• Fish utilizes the feed spilled by ducks and eat their droppings
directly by some fishes.
• Ducks called as manuring machine as they fertilize the ponds by
their droppings that are directly go into water providing essential
nutrients to increase the biomass of natural food organisms.
Saving the expenditure involved in labour in applying manure in
the pond.
• Ducks keep water plants in check.
• Save fertilizer cost. The daily waste of duck feed (about 20 – 30
gm/duck) serves as fish feed in ponds or as manure, resulting in
higher fish yield.
• Save supplementary feed cost (account 60%).
• Duck get its required quantity of water from the fish pond.

10. Cont.. advantages .

11. • This integrated farming of fish and duck can be
divided into 2 groups:
• 1)Fish culture practice
• 2)Duckery farming practice

13. • 1 ) Pre stocking management:
4) Fertilizing : first give SSP +urea (
70 kg+50 kg/ bigha ), then after 10
days Raw cow dung ( 1000kg /
bigha) added.
in middle Lime is given
3) After 3 days water
filling
about 3-3.5 ft.
2) ploughing, Sun drying,
Next day- liming for soil
50-60 kg/ bigha ( CaO)
For preparing new fish Farm
After 7 days of giving cow dung -
Fish Fingerling release.

14. • Pre stocking management Cont.....
Renovation of an existing fish pond :
i) Removal of aquatic weed:
physically, mechanically,
biologically. repeated neeting.
4) Liming (30-
40kg/bigha)
3) Partial replenishment/
restoration of water: 2-2.5 mt
water depth maintained.
2) Removal of weed fishes,
insects, unwanted organisms, - 350
kg/ bigha mohua oil cake added. or
soap- oil emulsion ( 1:3) add
5). first add SSP
70kg/bigha+ Urea 50
kg/bigha Then ,after 10
days Raw Cow Dung add
(1000kg/bigha)
6)After 7 days of giving
cow dung - Fish Fingerling
release.

15. • 2 ) On stoking Management :
• Selection of species, composite fish
culture( example - rohu , catla , silver carp,
mrigala, cyprinus carp, grass carp)
• fast growing rate, goid market value.etc.
• Stocking ratio : 20 Fingerling = 4( catla)+4(rohu)+4(silver
carp)+3(cyprinus carp)+3(mrigala)+2(grass carp).
• size should >10cm.
• per bigha 800 Fingerling.
Soil and water
pH
Lime ( per kg/
bigha)
4.5-5.0 250 kg
5.0-6.0 130 kg
6.0-6.5 65 kg
6.5-7.0 60 kg
water pH is measured
and liming is done as
mentioned: before
stocking Fingerlings

16. • 3 ) Post Stocking Management :
1) Liming. It is done based on the
soil and water pH. also we give
lime 55kg/ bigha/year as
5kg/1month .
2) Fertilization : no need of using
extra fertilizer, cz duck excreta or
droppings is there.
3) Feeding : integration of fish farming with duck
supplementary feeding to the cultured fish is not required.
excreta helps in fertilizing the pond water and produce the
fish food organism like- phytoplankton and zooplankton.
common carp take duck excreta directly.

17. • Post stocking management cont....
4)Water quality management:
1. Depth of water.( 2-2.5 mt.)
2. Turbidity of pond water.( < 30 ppm)
3. Dissolve Oxygen ( 5 - 10 ppm)
4. PH of water ( 6.7- 8.5)
5. Alkalinity and hardness ( 50-300ppm, 30
- 180 ppm)
6. Ammonia content.(< 0.02 ppm)
5) Fish health management : by netting
weekly fish health should checked .
6) Harvesting management :750 gm to 1 kg in weight
fishes are harvested accdn to market demand. equal
number of Fingerling also added for maintaining balance.

18. B) Duck Farming practices

19. • 2)Raising ducks on
pond shore..
• A duck shed is constructed in
the vicinity of fish ponds with
cemented area of dry and wet
runs outside.
• stocking density of duck is
about 4 – 6 ducks/sq.m. area.
• The dry and wet runs are
cleaned once a day. After
cleaning the duck shed, the
waste water is allowed to
enter in to the pond.
• Here duck and fish unable to
take advantage of the
symbiosis,

20. 3)Raising ducks in fish
pond—(most common
method)
• The embankments of the
ponds are partly fenced with
net to form a wet run.
• The fenced net is installed
40-50 cm above and below
the water surface, so in this
way fish enable to enter into
the wet run while ducks
cannot escape under the
net.
• In a large pond, a small
“island” is constructed at the
center of the pond.

21. • In duck farming along with fish the following
management practices are followed:
• 1. Construction of duck house: A low cost house
can be constructed over the pond water surface or on the
pond embankment using locally available materials like-
bamboo, wood, etc. The hole size of the floor should be
around 5 cm sq . Each duck requires 1 to 1.5 sq. feet space
for their comfortable stay. The height of the house should
be around 2.5 m with well ventilation and preferably side
walls is fitted with ironwire or bamboo netting. The entry
and exit of duck into the pond should be like a bridge
pattern made up of bamboo or wooden. Along the
periphery of the fish farm there should be fencing to
prevent the outgoing of the ducks from the fish farms.

22. • Duck house ,

23. 2. Selection of duck :Khaki Campbell and Indian
runner are suitable breed of ducks because of their
disease resistant , faster growth and high egg laying
capacity.
• Mete , Nageshwari, Sylhet are also indigenous sp for
good yield.
Indian Runner
Khaki Campbell

24. 3) Numbers of duck to be farmed:
One duck voided about 125- 150 gms ( yearly 10000-
15000 kg/ hect.). excreta or droppings in a day. So 200-
300 ducks are sufficient for 1 ha pond area.
• Adult male duck weight is about 2.0-2.2 kg. and adult
female duck weight is 2.5 kg.

25. 4)Housing of ducks: 3- 4 months aged ducklings are
introduced into the duck house after 1 month of stocking
the pond with fish seed. They are brought to the duck
house after giving all prophylactic treatments against viral
diseases of ducks and after disinfecting the duck house and
the materials that are going to use in the duckery practices.

27. • Feeding management cont...
• Generally 2 - 3 months ducklings are mostly preferred.
• It should remember first 5 - 6 weeks aged ducklings should not put in pond
water. After 6 weeks ducklings are allowed to go pond only in day time. In
this time ducklings should required above mentioned feeding chart as well.
After 8 week they go pond and take their food from pond as small amount.
Then feeding chart should different.
Age (week) Feeding in week (gm) per duck
1 115 gm/ duck
2 255 gm / duck
3 430 gm / duck
4 620 gm / duck
5 720 gm / duck
6 770 gm / duck
7 790 gm/ duck
8 820 gm / duck

28. Age ( week) external feeding /
week/duck
9 690 gm
10 730 gm
11 760 gm
12 790 gm

29. • Remember- age 12 week to 18 week duck should feed
80% of their requirement , otherwise they would fatty
and laid egg late .
• After 13 weekof their age their daily feed requirement is
150 to 200 gm / duck.
• It is estimated that external supplementary feeding is
required / duck / year is 50 to 60 kg.
• Dont give dry feed to duck cz it will stuck .

30. • 6)Egg laying management: Duck start laying
eggs when they become 6 months old.
• After age 20 week there should make a modification
for egg laying, like we can make a palce made with
bamboo or wood or tin inside paddy straw or hay of
12*12*18 inch/3 ducks , so they are ready to lay egg
in that place .
• One duck gives 150—200 numbers of eggs in every
year.
• They lay eggs in night or very morning.So they are
allowed to go into the ponds after 9 a.m.
• When the ducks become 18 months aged then there
egg laying capacity is reduced and they are sale out
and a new stock of ducklings are introduced into the
duck house.

32. •7)Health care: The main diseases of
ducklings and ducks are- duck cholera, duck
hepatitis and duck virus disease etc.
• Ducks should be vaccinated against all viral
diseases.
• A disease infected duck becomes listless,
exhausted, less bright eyes and also watery
discharge comes out from the eyes and the nostrils.
• Sneezing and coughing sound from the duck house
is warning tone for the coming disease.
• Treatment of diseased ducks should be given with
discussion with veterinary expert.

33. 8)Production. From the integration of duck-
cum- fish culture from a pond of 1 ha water spread
we gain profit as below:
• 1 duck voids about 125-150gm/day. so in 1 hectre
pond we will reared 200-300 ducks so they
droppings 10000-15000kg/year ,and that will rotate
circulatory( calculated).
• Neeting should done after 4 monts of releasing
fingerling and after 12 month all fish should be
caught and new fish will release again. so we can
get 3000-4000kg fish/ hectre.
• we can get 150-200 egg/ duck / year, and 2.0-2.5 kg
meat form one duck.

34. Production. : FISH +
EGG + DUCK MEAT.

35. Conclusion:
• From the view point of input-output relationship, integrated fish
farming with ducks is considered to be the best model in
integration of fish, livestocks and poultry. The economic
efficiency of fish-cum-duck practice is so high.
• Integrated management of fish-cum-duck farming can be further
developed to achieve higher economic efficiency by utilizing the
natural water body to cultivate high-yield aquatic plants as
vegetable feeds of ducks and by utilizing the wastes of
integrated fish farming and from city proper to grow earthworm
as animal-based feeds for ducks. At the output end, the
products such as fish, ducks and eggs could be further processed
before marketing, thus, the economic efficiency and income can
be considerably raised either from the angle of energy and
nutrient source or economy.

36. References
• Integrated duckCum Fish farming System journal ,
kvk - Meghalaya.( ICAR project )
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287595
864 , fish cum duck Farming
• Google.com search fish cum duck Farming.
• Class notes(by prof.T.K.Ghosh sir ,dept AQC)
• Training material , General culture of fish and
integrated fish farming.