. Our wild fowl and waders . aring the young ducksin England until the proper food for them was discov-ered. This was invented and made by a well knowndealer in foods for pheasants and poultry, and duck rear-ing at once became common on the preserves and onmany game farms. A number of excellent wild duck meals are now manu-factured in England and in America, and the best ofthese may be obtained from the Spratts Patent (Am.)Limited, Newark, New Jersey, or from at least one gamefarmer, Mr. Wallace Evans, of Oak Park, Illinois. Since young ducks live largely on insects, it was nec-essary to provi
. Our wild fowl and waders . aring the young ducksin England until the proper food for them was discov-ered. This was invented and made by a well knowndealer in foods for pheasants and poultry, and duck rear-ing at once became common on the preserves and onmany game farms. A number of excellent wild duck meals are now manu-factured in England and in America, and the best ofthese may be obtained from the Spratts Patent (Am.)Limited, Newark, New Jersey, or from at least one gamefarmer, Mr. Wallace Evans, of Oak Park, Illinois. Since young ducks live largely on insects, it was nec-essary to provide some animal matter in the food. Thegamekeepers, however, quickly transfer the youngducks to a grass field after they are hatched, where theycan secure some insects, the more the better, no doubt,and the coops in which the hens are confined are movedfrom day to day in order to give the young birds freshground and a better chance to secure insect food. writes: I feed all my young wild geese, ducks and swan, from. ARTIFICIAL REARING OF WILD DUCKS 51 the first day they are hatched until ready for adult fare,on coarse yellow cornmeal alone, and the food I use mostexclusively for all adult wild fowl is corn—corn in thewhole grain, rarely the cracked form—and this fare Ihave adopted after many years of experiment with vari-ous mixtures of grain, wild duck feed, et hoc genus omne. I should add that I do not confine any of the youngwild fowl, but let them go with the parent birds to foragefor themselves, and no doubt they greatly supplementthe ration I give them with the many kinds of insect lifeand the seeds, leaves and roots of the various forms ofland and aquatic grasses and plants that abound in myenclosures. The Canada goslings begin nibbling grasscertainly by the second day of their existence and do notseem inclined to take to the water as early as the youngducks and cygnets, which almost roll out of the eggshell into the water and begin swimming on their natald
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