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Title: Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Fiske, George B. (George Burnap), 1868-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York : O. Judd Co.
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Fig. 86.—DUCK HOUSE, as to strangle themselves. To avoid all danger, thewire fence should have a three or four-inch mesh. Ariiong the most profitable varieties as layers are thePekins. A fair yearly product for a duck in its secondyear is a hundi*ed and twenty eggs, and sixty fo eightyfor a yearling. Their feathers are of the best quality,white, with a creamy shade; and five ducks weighingfive pounds each have yielded, killed in the winter-timewhen fully feathered, more than one pound in all. Itwill be right to pick the ducks when moulting is begin-
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(321) RAISING DUCKS. %2^ ning; the feathers are then loose and are picked easilymid without injury. This will considerably increase theyield of feathers, and will prevent a useless loss; other-wise the loose feathers from twenty ducks will be foundspread over their whole range. It by no means follows because ducks are a water-fowlthat much water is required to raise them. Yet this isa very common im))ression, and multitudes of farmersand villagers deny themselves the enjoyment and profitof a flock of clucks because they have no pond or streamnear the house. It is true that adult ducks will get agood deal of their living out of a water privilege, if theyhave one. It is not true that water to swim in is essen-tial to their profitable keeping. They want some rangeand grass and good fresh water to drink every day.Ordinarily, ducks can be profitably raised wherever henscan be. They make a pleasing variety in the poult 17-yard, and all who have room for them can enjoj them.The first thing i

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