Product Description

Ducks are one of the easiest-to-care-for livestock. They're very hardy and adapt to many conditions. When allowed to forage, they'll glean a major share of their own feed and replenish the field with natural fertilization. In return for providing minimal care, a part-time farmer can reap a bounty in meat, eggs, and down--not to mention free pest control. Ducks are a true plus-plus asset to any farmer, and Ducks gives all the information hobby farmers need to get started.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171772 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"Ducks is an excellent overview of all aspects of keeping ducks. Written as a primer for someone contemplating keeping ducks, it contains information that may enlighten even a veteran waterfowl breeder. The book is a worthy addition to any bird lover's library." ----Lou Horton, American Poultry Association/American Bantam Association licensed judge

Review
"After having raised and studied more than 80 varieties of domestic ducks, . . . I have found ducks to be possibly the most versatile domestic avian species raised by humans. Cherie Langlois has written an interesting and informative book from her zoologist perspective on these highly entertaining and useful waterfowl."

From the Publisher
About the Hobby Farms(tm) Series: Whether weekend gardeners or dedicated small farmers, readers will gather a bushel of essential information from Hobby Farm and its companions editions. These books help experienced and novice hobby farmers alike realize their own dreams of life on the farm for pleasure and profit.

Customer Reviews

'THE' How-to Duck book for Novices....
This is the duck How-to book that I'd recommend to any novice. Especially, for anyone who wants Ducks for pets. It covers the basics well. Having never raised ducks before, this was just the book I was looking for.

The author Cherie Langlois, writes in a humorous and easy to read fashion. In this book she covers duck personality, choosing the right ducks, housing, dietary needs, breeding, duckling care, flock health, harvesting your duck eggs, endangered duck breeds and duck diseases. There is also a well researched duck resource directory and a nice glossary of duck jargon.

This book is put together on glossy, flexible and thick paperstock. It will easily suvive repeated reading or referencing. It has a multitude of color photographs throughout too.

The few things I would've liked to see in this book were more about pond building and perhaps photo's of all the different breeds. Tho, I know that this information would constitute another whole book! If you also want information on detailed pond building or more information on the individual duck breeds- I'd buy this book along with 'Duck & Geese for Beginners' by Rick Luttmann (has detailed pond building info), and perhaps a copy of Carol Ekarius' 'Storey's Illustrated Poultry Breeds' book. This book along with the aforementioned would complete your duck for pets reference library. If you want to take your passion for ducks further (ie professional breeding or showing), you will want to pair this with the 'Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks' by Dave Holderread.

Highly recommend this one!

The A-Z book on raising and keeping ducks
I found this book to be incredibly informative on making first of all an educated decision on if I should have ducks on my property, to how to know what kind would be apropriate for what I would like to do with them and then making sure I have created the correct environment for my ducks.

I appreciated Cherie Langlois, the authors personal touch and humor throughout the book having raised many ducks of her own. The "Advice from the farm" was very interesting and helpful and I enjoyed the details for example nutritional facts, endangered ducks and first aid disease control. The book was very well researched and will make a great reference for years to come.