An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks: Breeds, Feeding, Housing and Care, Eggs and Meat

by Gail Damerow

Overview

This inspiring introductory guide provides all the information beginners need to raise ducks successfully in the yard or on a small homestead or farm.

Ducks are quickly gaining on chickens as popular animals for the backyard homestead or small farm. They are friendly, productive, good at eating pests, remarkably healthy, and easier to raise than chickens in many ways. Plus, they are exceptionally adorable! This accessible introductory guide features original photography tracking the growth and care of a small flock of backyard ducks, and addresses everything the beginner duck keeper needs to know to be successful, including breed selection, housing, feeding, health care, understanding behavior, and egg and meat production. 

This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635865301
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	02/14/2023
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What’s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.
 

Editorial Reviews

"As the title suggests, this helpful resource is aimed at providing all the information necessary to raise ducks, whether for eggs, meat, showing, or as pets. Each topic, from behavior to feeding to breeding, is covered succinctly and illustrated with attractive color photos."—Library Journal

From the Publisher

01/01/2023

As the title suggests, this helpful resource is aimed at providing all the information necessary to raise ducks, whether for eggs, meat, showing, or as pets. Each topic, from behavior to feeding to breeding, is covered succinctly and illustrated with attractive color photos. Especially helpful and complete is the section on different breeds and types of ducks, with each major breed getting a full page of easy-to-reference information on everything from its utility (eggs vs. meat) to whether it flies to how many eggs it lays per year, and much more. While the section on raising ducks for meat covers best breeds, when to slaughter, and even how to cook duck, the topic of how to kill, pluck, and prepare a duck for eating is not included. Sprinkled between the advice are short "duck tales" that provide anecdotes from the author's own life with ducks. VERDICT Buy where there is an interest in backyard poultry.—Eva Mitnick

Library Journal