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Title: 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 method..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: American Pekin Duck Company, Boston
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston, Mass., American Pekin duck company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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. Hewants them for seed. Our ducks have no lice or other vermin. They are notbothered by hawks. They have no diseases. Good,strong points, those three. Lice are a terrible nuisancein general poultry raising and have dissipated many adream of profits. When we say that our ducks have novermin on their bodies of any kind, we mean just that, andwe say it emphatically. Why it is exactly, we do not know.One would imagine that a louse would live on any animal.Still, there are others (rabbits, for instance) which have novermin. Hawks are an ever-present pest in many parts of ourcountry. They will not touch the youngest duckhng. By no disease, we do not wish to give the impressionthat ducks resist all ill-treatment. Fed improperly, theywill have diarrhoea. Kept in the sun constantly whenlittle and given no shade, they will be sun-struck. Givena chance when very young to eat certain bugs, they willbe killed. Allowed to become crowded and panic-stricken, they will get lame and otherwise injured.
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DUCKS FOR BUSINESS Starved, they will die like any animal. But these mattersare absolutely under the control of the breeder, with verysimple and sure arrangements. There will be no lossesfrom what is commonly known as disease. No medicinesor pills or drugs of any kind are of any use in the duckbusiness. The beautiful white feathers picked from the ducklingsbefore marketing are worth good money, forty-five tofifty cents a pound. Every twelve ducks will give a pound.Generally this revenue will pay the picking. The following food is given (See further chapters inthis book for details.): Rolled oats, bread-crumbs, bran,corn-meal, flour (low-grade), beef scraps, green stuff,vegetables, grit, ground oyster shells. The rolled oats cost in New England ^3.25 to ^5 abarrel (one hundred and eighty pounds). This is themost expensive item in the ration. They are fed only tothe youngest ducklings and to them only a brief period. The bread-crumbs are made from stale bread givenaway (or sold for litt

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