Duck housing, coops, and runs often resemble chicken coops or rabbit hutches without stilt-style legs. While ducks can often live harmoniously with chickens in the same coop and run (in my personal experience), some keeps prefer to create a duck house – coop and run designed specifically to house only the water-loving poultry birds. A […]
Reading the best books on raising ducks can help make your husbandry efforts far more successful and foster the keeping of far healthier and happier ducks. Whether you are keeping ducks for their meat, and eggs, to rid your garden of bugs, or merely as pets, learning how to take care of them properly is […]
Ducks are far more vulnerable to duck predators than their barnyard poultry peers, chickens. There is an excellent reason the phrase “sitting duck” was coined. These meat and egg birds have no natural means of self-defense against common duck predators. Their beaks are rounded, their toenails are not sharp enough to cause harm, and nearly […]
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Ducks are most commonly kept as egg and meat birds on homesteads or even in large backyards, but they can also be raised as entertaining and pleasant pets, as well. These adorable poultry birds can make excellent pets, as long as keepers do not expect them to behave like a pet store bird or a […]
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Keeping the best meat duck has been on the rise in the United States for several years. While factory farms have long supplied gourmet chefs with the best duck meat, more folks are starting to raise these fabulous birds not only for the large and creamy eggs they produce but for their tender beef on […]
Duckling winter care involves diligent but not complicated or overly time-consuming husbandry techniques. The cute little fuzzy ducklings that you hatched or bought will depend on your care to survive their first few days to weeks of life. While ducks are incredibly more winter cold hardy than chickens, they can only comfortably tolerate 45-degree temperatures […]
You should carefully consider the pros and cons of duck raising before investing in the purchase and husbandry set up for these adorable meat and egg birds. Even if you plan on raising ducks as “farm pets.” Failing to look at both the plus and minus scale associated with raising ducks could easily result in […]
Magpie ducks are not necessarily as popular or well known as the Pekin, Khaki Campbell, or even the Indian Runner breeds. Still, they do have an extremely devoted keeper and breeder community. The hens of this breed are proficient layers of quality eggs. Both hens and drakes (mature male ducks) are excellent meat birds – […]
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Welsh Harlequin ducks are known for both their quality egg production and their avid desire to procreate. So much so in fact, that you only need one drake (male duck) to service an entire flock of hens. – female ducks. This popular duck breed is a relatively young one. Welsh Harlequin ducks were created after […]
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Ducks do not just love water. They need it. Ducks need water and must not be left without clean water to bathe, swim in, and drink. Ducks in such a scenario will suffer ill health effects and become emotionally distressed and exhibit anxious and even destructive behavior. It does not matter if you are keeping […]