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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks

Breeds, Feeding, Housing and Care, Eggs and Meat
By Gail Damerow
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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks by Gail Damerow offers a comprehensive introduction to duck keeping, covering essential information on selecting breeds, creating a suitable habitat, and ensuring proper nutrition. The book also delves into health care and breeding tips, making it ideal for anyone interested in starting their own backyard duck adventure. It's an excellent resource combining both practical advice and insights into duck behaviour.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you're eager to delve into raising ducks for the first time. It provides practical advice and clear steps suitable for complete beginners, making the process of caring for and understanding these charming birds a delightful experience. Whether you're interested in keeping ducks for their eggs, pest control, or simply as pets, this guide offers a wealth of knowledge on nurturing a healthy and happy flock.

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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks

Move over chickens--ducks are joining the backyard flock! This introductory guide is the provides all the information beginners need to raise ducks successfully in the yard or on a small homestead or farm.

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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 behaviour, and egg and meat production.

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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks offers comprehensive guidance for those interested in raising ducks for various purposes such as eggs or companionship. The book is praised for its thorough coverage of topics like duck behaviour, feeding, and breeding, all illustrated with appealing colour photographs.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635865295

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs and illustrations througho

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 176.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 406g

Pages: 160

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Gail Damerow Non-Fiction Science & Nature

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.

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