Herding Ducks in the Rice Fields

These duck breeders in Indonesia are still actively running their business because they are relatively unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. But they also have to work hard by using the free-range system or herding to reduce the production of duck feed.

This duck anon system has also been carried out by duck breeders since decades ago. They will look for former harvested rice fields and release their ducks in that location to look for food such as snails, pests and others.

With the free system, it turned out to be one of the keys for farmers to survive during the pandemic. Considering that they do not spend too much money to buy duck feed concentrate, which is sometimes high in price. Concentrated feed is only given when it is one to two weeks old. After that, the ducks are diangon in the rice fields.

Duck breeders also have to work hard to find ex-harvested rice fields which are now also getting narrower. No wonder they also have to be ready to take hundreds of ducks out of town to get rice fields where the ducks are free.

Anon Duck's vital capital at this time is to have a cage cart pulled by a motorbike. In this way, ducks can be carried out of town to find food. This is different from before, if you go out of town, you have to stay or look for rental land and take days to return home