. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls. Ducks; Geese. 3a DUCKS AND GEESE. meal and boot' scraps. Feed ducklings three times a day and be sure to have plenty of fresh water near when feeding and be particular that no food is left in the troughs. Dueklings should never be allowed to swim in water until fully feathered out. as it makes them weak and re- tards their growth. Between feeding hours give them weeds or some green stuff. They should weigh five pounds when ten weeks old if properly cared for. I have
. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls. Ducks; Geese. 3a DUCKS AND GEESE. meal and boot' scraps. Feed ducklings three times a day and be sure to have plenty of fresh water near when feeding and be particular that no food is left in the troughs. Dueklings should never be allowed to swim in water until fully feathered out. as it makes them weak and re- tards their growth. Between feeding hours give them weeds or some green stuff. They should weigh five pounds when ten weeks old if properly cared for. I have had some that weighed a trifle over six pounds at this age. Keep your feed troughs clean. Prepare feed troughs as described elsewhere in this journal. They will keep your young and old ducks out of the troughs and no food is wasted. Do not forget to add bone meal, or dry ground bone to your food regularly. If this is neglected the duck- ling will be lame. Should they become lame, diminish the amount of cornmeal and beef scraps and feed more bone meal. We raise our ducklings in small inclosures, the pens in- side the brooder house being from four to eight feet wide and twelve feet long, the outside runs being from five to twelve feet wide and twenty feet long. These pens accom- modate from twenty-five to forty ducklings. The pens must be well cleaned and aired and kept free from odor. When the weather gets warm the ducklings (when six weeks old) can be kept in pens protected only by a roof. Young duck- lings sometimes get the habit, when setting their feathers, of pulling feathers out of each other. Those thus inclined should be placed in a separate enclosure. If you have the right kind of Pekin ducks they will bo fully feathered at the age of nine or ten weeks and are ready to go to market. If they are not marketed at this time you will have to wait four weeks longer, as they will hegin to shed their first coat of feathers and get pin feathers and cannot be dressed. Well-dress
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