. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 218 xz fSt&efe »ttd J^xa'tsrtmu. April 5 POULTRY. Raising Ducks With Profit. Ducks can be kept find raised quite as profitably as chick- ens, with only water sufficient for drinking purposes. Indeed, they become a greater source of profit if limited in their runs. They consume a large quantity of food if allowed access to it, but after a certain amount the surplus food is rather a disad- vantage, and should be kept from them, for it is consumed at a waste. Ducks should be kept separate from the other fowls, as they are apt to create disturbances. Ducks are
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 218 xz fSt&efe »ttd J^xa'tsrtmu. April 5 POULTRY. Raising Ducks With Profit. Ducks can be kept find raised quite as profitably as chick- ens, with only water sufficient for drinking purposes. Indeed, they become a greater source of profit if limited in their runs. They consume a large quantity of food if allowed access to it, but after a certain amount the surplus food is rather a disad- vantage, and should be kept from them, for it is consumed at a waste. Ducks should be kept separate from the other fowls, as they are apt to create disturbances. Ducks are great foragers and will live largely on insects, like other fowls, if kept from the neighborhood of running streams. When once given access to a running stream they become difficult of control. If kept like other fowls they give no more trouble. There are many varieties of ducks, but the common gray duck is about as profitable as any. They are good layers, and the young mature early, and are fit for market by mid- summer, when they bring good prices. A duck will lay from fourteen to sixteen eggs, when she will sit. The period of incubation varies from twenty-six to twenty-eight days, according to the weather and the steadiness of the sitter. Ducklings are not hardy; indeed, I think they are more del- icate than our common chickens, until fully feathered. The growth of young ducks is very rapid where well fed, in which case they are quiet, and are little trouble if given a place of resort where they can do no mischief. They are mischevious if allowed access to the garden, as they will destroy the young vegetables. If given a place by themselves, with a shallow trough of water to bathe in, renewed daily, they will give no trouble when well fed. The mother will lay two, and where well kept, three clutches of eggs, which may be put under hens if it be desired to keep the ducks in laying, which they will do if well fed, and also mother the ducks *of the first hatching. Ducklings th
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