Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . depend-ing only in winter upon the farmer for their food ; andscarcely more favorably with dunghill fowls,which duringthe summer months require but little food except whatthey hunt for about the farm. The ducks, besides,though some kinds are excellent layers, are heedlessbirds, exposing themsehes, their eggs, and young tocrows, ratp, turtles, and other vermin, dropping theireggs about, shifting their place of laying if disturbed,inconstant as sitters, and chilling their young by takingthem too soon and too ofte
Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . depend-ing only in winter upon the farmer for their food ; andscarcely more favorably with dunghill fowls,which duringthe summer months require but little food except whatthey hunt for about the farm. The ducks, besides,though some kinds are excellent layers, are heedlessbirds, exposing themsehes, their eggs, and young tocrows, ratp, turtles, and other vermin, dropping theireggs about, shifting their place of laying if disturbed,inconstant as sitters, and chilling their young by takingthem too soon and too often to the water. Still, allthese objections may be obviated, in a measure, andducks really pay very well both in flesh and eggs for theamount of food they consume. The duck is an omnivorous animal—eating almosteverything vegetable and animal that comes in its of all kinds, worms, poUiwigs, fish, shellfish(dend or alive), meat, even that which is partly decom-posed, ana many greei- vegetables, grass, seeds, grain,etc. Withal, its appetite is voracious; hence it grows. Fig. 88(a),—ROUEN DUCKS.
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