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    A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks: Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard
    A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks: Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard
    A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks: Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard
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    A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks: Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard

    By Dueep J. Singh and John Davidson

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    A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks - Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard

    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    Raising Ducks in Your Backyard
    Choosing Ducks
    Dabbling Ducks and Diving Ducks
    Incubation of Ducklings
    Artificial Incubation
    Brooding
    Cleaning duck eggs
    Ducks and drakes
    Housing Your Ducks
    How to Make a Grass Run
    Keeping a Small Flock
    Traditional House Dimensions
    Preventing Flight over Netting
    Breeding Ducks for the Table.
    Preparing Ducklings
    Ducks and Water
    Feeding Your Ducks.
    Layers Mash for Ducks
    What is Grass Meal?
    What is Bean Meal?
    Drinking Water
    Conclusion
    Author Bio

    Introduction

    It must have been somewhere, and some time millenniums ago, when man found that the Mallard and Muscovy that he hunted in the marshes, and brought home to his family was a bird which could be domesticated.
    One is not very certain about which particular civilization decided that duck brought up in your own farmyard, was a good source of eating for the whole family. Roast duck, broiled duck, duck with seasonings and herbs, even wild duck, along with their cousins, the geese and the swans made excellent fare especially during times, when other food resources were not so easily available.

    Geese and swans are definitely not considered ducks, though they belong to the same family. The original ancestral species is the same, even though the characteristics differ. Geese and swans are larger in size and can be found in seawater, as well as in freshwater. Ducks are smaller in size, but prefer freshwater habitats.

    In the same manner, you should not confuse ducks with other aquatic birds like divers, coots and grebes. All of them are good eating, but they are unrelated, except for their liking for water.
    Apart from the meat content and eggs, ducks have also been reared for their soft down. Drakes are larger in size, when compared to the female ducks.

    Some of the popular species are Muscovy ducks, Mallards Paradise Shelduck and Aylesbury . The bills are long, broad and sometimes, they are serrated so that the ducks can feed on easily filtered aquatic plant and animal species.

    A duck shoot has always been a popular occupation of people who enjoy hunting for gain, especially when you are shooting these birds on the wing. A duck cannot fly when it is molting, and it normally molts before the duck group’s migration to a warmer climate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateDec 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311941954
    A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks: Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard

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      A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks - Dueep J. Singh

      A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks

      Keeping Ducks in Your Backyard

      Dueep J Singh and John Davidson

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Raising Ducks in Your Backyard

      Choosing Ducks

      Dabbling Ducks and Diving Ducks

      Incubation of Ducklings

      Artificial Incubation

      Brooding

      Cleaning duck eggs

      Ducks and drakes

      Housing Your Ducks

      How to Make a Grass Run

      Keeping a Small Flock

      Traditional House Dimensions

      Preventing Flight over Netting

      Breeding Ducks for the Table.

      Preparing Ducklings

      Ducks and Water

      Feeding Your Ducks.

      Layers Mash for Ducks

      What is Grass Meal?

      What is Bean Meal?

      Drinking Water

      Conclusion

      Author Bio-

      Introduction

      It

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