An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks: Breeds, Feeding, Housing and Care, Eggs and Meat
| AUTHOR | Damerow, Gail |
| PUBLISHER | Storey Publishing (02/14/2023) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9781635865295
ISBN-10:
1635865298
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
160
Carton Quantity:
42
Product Dimensions:
7.20 x 0.60 x 8.70 inches
Weight:
0.80 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Index,
Price on Product,
Glossary,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Animal Husbandry
Technology & Engineering | Birds
Technology & Engineering | Animals - Birds
Dewey Decimal:
636.597
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022048826
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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.
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Author:
Damerow, Gail
Gail Damerow, author of "The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition", has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen country skills how-to books, including the best-selling "Storey s Guide to Raising Chickens", "The Chicken Encyclopedia", and "Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks". Damerow is a regular contributor to "Backyard Poultry" and "Countryside "magazines. 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.
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