. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls . UCKS are injuriously affectedby too much sun, lack of a cool place to roost at night, and lack of water in warm weather. Ducks like clean water just as well as a man and will use cool water in preference to warm. Corn three times a day is too often for young ducks unless you are fattening them. Two-thirds of our duck feed is cut grass in summer and cut crab grass hay and corn fodder in winter. If you give your ducks a chance to get water at night with grass or some
. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls . UCKS are injuriously affectedby too much sun, lack of a cool place to roost at night, and lack of water in warm weather. Ducks like clean water just as well as a man and will use cool water in preference to warm. Corn three times a day is too often for young ducks unless you are fattening them. Two-thirds of our duck feed is cut grass in summer and cut crab grass hay and corn fodder in winter. If you give your ducks a chance to get water at night with grass or something in it they will do better than those that have no water from bedtime till breakfast. There is grass that ducks will not eat when running out, that if cut and fed to them they will eat lots of it. Many times a duck is wonderfully pleased to have coarse cracked corn put in a pail of water, so that it can gobble after it, and in this way it will eat only what is needed and no more. Old ducks pre- fer ground grain to whole grain except in cold weather, and a good mixed combination is preferred at all times. There are only two ways of successfully raising ducks, chickens and turkeys. One is to move in with them and stay from start to finish, and the other to take them in with you. Ducks that are never picked will grow larger and have, as a rule, better offspring than those constantly picked. Ducks well raised will begin laying at five and one-half months old, or a little less. I had March ducks lay the last of September, and expect to have it so again. I believe they should be kept off the snow and ice as much as possible. Put them in a good dry place in cold weather, provide nice warm water, and see what they say when you call on them. Ducks are like chicks and turkeys, they like lots of ground bone. I have bought lots of it, more than 16,000 pounds. You can get a duck to market four weeks earlier than you can a chicken, but the price is generally three to five cents lower. T
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