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Identifier: turkeysducksgees00nour (find matches)
Title: Turkeys, ducks, and geese
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Nourse, H. A. (Harold Alvah), 1875-
Subjects: Turkeys Ducks Geese
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Webb Pub. Co.
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ers are given a green run in a largeorchard where they receive the best of care, and are notforced in any way. They are gradually broken into eat-ing whole corn. Weber Bros, get their breeding stock tcrlaying by December 15th. They are fed a mash morningand night, and at noon one quart of whole corn to twenty-five ducks. The mash consists of the following: fifteen percent (by weight) meat scraps, twenty-five per cent (byweight) bran, one bushel cut clover or alfalfa, three pailsof boiled carrots, one-half pint of salt to a thirty-pail mix-ture, enough flour to make it sticky, and the balance ofcorn meal to make a thirty-pail mixture. EXTENSIVE DUCK RAISING 93 The breeding ducks are all shut in at night, both inwarm and cold weather, so that their eggs will be laid in-side of the house. They are let out of doors at eightoclock in the morning in good weather. The house isheated in cold wreather to take out the chill and to keep theeggs from freezing. Lanterns are hung in all of the pens
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Double Brooding House on Weber Bros. Duck Farm. to prevent the ducks from stampeding and to keep themquiet at night. Five drakes are allowed to a pen of twentyducks. Incubators Do the Hatching. Incubators are used exclusively for hatching. Theyare operated in a separate building, built underground withoverhead and end ventilation by means of muslin curtains.All windows wrere whitewashed so as to shut out the directrays of the sun and to assist to keep the air within at aseven a temperature as possible. To further help, and alsoto afford more entilation, shutters are used on the win-dows. The ground floor is cement, and it is the practice 94 TURKEYS, DUCKS AND GEESE to keep the floor wet down constantly as it keeps the airmoist and does away with some adding of moisture in themachines. Hatching is commenced in January and is continueduntil the latter part of July when the fertility runs low.The average of fertile eggs hatched runs very high. Themortality is very low. The eggs are put i

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