Books about raising ducks?

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And the story goes: the Duck race is a a non-competetive, in aid of charity contest that take place, every year since 2005, in several cities all around the US. You can «adopt» a rubber duck (as the ones shown in this picture) and, if your duck places on the first five positions, you’ll win a prize.
This year, our duck was number 131.254!
As shown in the coming pictures, the huge load is dumped from Columbus bridge into Chicago river from a yellow truck, and then the huge group is pushed from a firefighters boat with firehydrants, till they reach the finishing line, right before the Michigan av. bridge.
The whole thing is about charity, as the money raised (5$ for adopting a duck in the race, and some merchandising that is, indeed, very cool, such as the two ducks shown on the pictures, named Alfredino and Alfredone) go to the Special Olympics. You can learn more on the official website.

Our duck — it goes withouth saying — didn’t win a thing, but our deepest enjoyment of the entire contest.

Great, great idea!

Question by love forever: Books about raising ducks?
We’ve had four pekin ducks since may. they are now big and white. they are quite spoiled as far as pet ducks go. (for christmas, they got watermelon, their favorite treat. they hadn’t had it since summer!) my dad and i built them a pen, and a house connected to the pen for winter. they even have a heated water bucket and hay for bedding. we take care of them really well, but i would like to get a book about raising ducks, any little tips i may have over looked. also, we got them when they were older, already losing their yellow fuzz, and they were afraid of people. we tried our best to get them used to us, but they are still afraid. they won’t come within a couple feet of me, and they come the closest to me out of everybody. are their any books that have a part about socializing them? thanks.
our ducks won’t eat bread, they are too afraid of it. the only treats they will eat is lettuce and watermelon. in the summer, i could sit with the watermelon at my feet and they would happily eat it, but if i moved even a centimeter, they would freak, running away flapping their wings. now thats it winter, its very hard to get near them with all the snow and how cold it is. i was giving them water and the dominant duck Chubby tried to get past me to get out the door. i froze and just whispered encouragement to him, but then his girl Slushie quacked and he ran back to her.

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2 Responses to Books about raising ducks?

  1. Hi, It sounds like you are looking after them really well! I’m not sure theres too much more a book could tell you other than what you can learn from experience.
    I do have one good book though that i got when I first bought some ducks. Its called For the Love of Ducks by Nyiri Murtagh. It has everything from duck anatomy, duck breeds, finding the right breed for you, duck behaviour, management, housing, diet, health, egg incubation and hatching and also how to cross breed ducks. Theres heaps of great info in there, I find the bit on duck health especially helpful for when they get sick.

    Ducks can be pretty timid and it can be hard to get near them. If they are full grown then it can be pretty hard to teach them to come up to you, but you can encourage them a bit with food, like bread. Hold it out to them and see if theyre game enough to come and take it from your hands, if not throw them little pieces but not too far from you. If you keep it up they’ll look to you for treats and wont be so afraid.

    Chell
    December 10, 2011 at 3:34 am
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  2. go to a library and find some books

    cutegagangel
    December 10, 2011 at 4:06 am
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