How to Raise Ducks in Your Backyard

If you want an economical and steady supply of homegrown eggs that are nutritious and tasty, you’ll need a flock of backyard chickens, right? Well, not necessarily. You might want to consider raising ducks in your backyard. No doubt about it, chickens have proven their worth as fine producers of savoury eggs and should not be discredited. However, during the last decade, a growing number of us North Americans have been discovering what many Asians and Europeans have known for a long time: under many circumstances, ducks have advantages over their cackling relatives as producers of eggs. Here’s the how and why to raise ducks.

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