. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 159 they should be as dry as possible, hence a good roof is desirable. A house used by many of the large duck raisers is i6 feet wide, 20 feet long and 6 feet on the side and 8 to 9 feet in the middle. Through this house runs a passage way two and a half feet wide, and the house is divided off so as to accommodate a number of pens at one time. The fences for yards should be of wire. A fence two feet high will keep ducks in. A good plan is to make temporary fences, driving short stakes into the ground and at- taching the wire fe
. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 159 they should be as dry as possible, hence a good roof is desirable. A house used by many of the large duck raisers is i6 feet wide, 20 feet long and 6 feet on the side and 8 to 9 feet in the middle. Through this house runs a passage way two and a half feet wide, and the house is divided off so as to accommodate a number of pens at one time. The fences for yards should be of wire. A fence two feet high will keep ducks in. A good plan is to make temporary fences, driving short stakes into the ground and at- taching the wire fencing to these with staples, using only two or three at each stake, and not driving them in tight. Ducks foul the ground very badly, and it is desirable to move them fre-. Pekin Ducks. quently and turn over and plant the ground they have been run- ning on. As drakes are not as combative as cocks are, flocks large enough to require a number of drakes are generally kept together. Twenty-five or thirty ducks can be kept in a flock. For this number of ducks five or six drakes are needed. Successful breeders have found that ducks do best on soft food, and most of the largest breeders are feeding both their young and old birds on soft food exclusively. We give below the rations fed the breeding stock by four of the leading duck breeders in the United States: I. "Equal parts of cornmeal, wheat bran and low-grade flour, with about twelve or fifteen per cent, of animal food. One fourth of this food should be composed of vegetables cooked— say, small potatoes, turnips, etc., with all the green rye and re- fuse cabbage they will eat. Feed this mixture mornings and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burbridge, Mabelle A. (Mabelle Antoinette), b. 1872. [Los Angeles? Cal. ]
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