. How we make ducks pay ... an illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings; plain and thorough lessons for beginners and others everywhere who write for the details and secrets of our waterless duck at the rate of one egga day is quite a strain on her system and the corn is fedespecially to strengthen the bird. Clean food is essential. Do not let the food boards getdirty. When the ducks are through feeding turn the foodboards over, face down, so as to keep them clean. It is said that you can get hens and pigeons too fat tolay, but this
. How we make ducks pay ... an illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings; plain and thorough lessons for beginners and others everywhere who write for the details and secrets of our waterless duck at the rate of one egga day is quite a strain on her system and the corn is fedespecially to strengthen the bird. Clean food is essential. Do not let the food boards getdirty. When the ducks are through feeding turn the foodboards over, face down, so as to keep them clean. It is said that you can get hens and pigeons too fat tolay, but this is not true of ducks. By overfeeding a henyou can stop her laying but you cannot overfeed a duckso as to stop her laying. The pens inside the cold house should be bedded whennecessary. For bedding, hay, straw, sawdust, meadowlhay, leaves or baled shavings can be used. The shavingsare best. They are cheaper and more convenient tohandle. A bale of them weighing from ninety to onehundred pounds costs only about twenty-five cents. This bedding should be put down inside the pens inthe house to a depth of one inch to start. The foundationis dry sand or gravel. A new layer of bedding should beput down twice a week on top of the old bedding. It is 33. FOOD-MIXING MACHINE This is really a machine used by bakers for mixing dough, but it is justwhat is wanted for mixing the ration for ducks. This size cost three hundredand twenty dollars, but it saves the labor of two men. There is a smaller sizesold at half that price. The mixer shown in above picture is run by power, agasoline engine. The steel hopper is stationary and the mixing is done bytwo horizontal revolving metal paddles, moving in opposite directions. CARE OF BREEDING STOCK not necessary to clean out the old shavings. If the pensare cleaned out with a fork twice a year, that is enough. The bedding should be changed on some fair day whenthe ducks are outdoors out of the way. Do not changethe bedding while they are inside of the
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