Whether you are doing it for pleasure or for practical reasons (a.k.a. meat and eggs), ducks are awesome animals to raise. But despite their cute and innocent appearance, ducks need specific care and attention to thrive. And while raising them is something that has definitely been growing in popularity in recent years, the unfortunate reality […]
Portable Duck Coop Ideas
If you are looking for an effective way to keep your ducks safe and secure while allowing them the freedom to roam around your property without being confined to one area, a portable duck coop is what you need! A portable duck coop allows poultry owners flexibility in where they can place their ducks without […]
Duck Housing And Duck Coops
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 […]
7 Best Books On Raising Ducks
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 […]
Magpie Duck Breed: Everything You Need To Know
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 Everything You Need To Know About This Duck
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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