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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] chicken breeds/ducks
  • Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 13:15:47 -0400

On 05/06/2011 08:19 PM, Barbara Money wrote:
Diane, I have that book! and I find Carol Deppe's insights pretty
interesting, though being in the Northeast, some of her methods won't
work here; winters are too cold for one. I know she favors ducks; but
the folks around here I asked about ducks said they are messy (the, er,
fertilizer is wetter) and they need a pond or pool, and their meat is
greasy. I've actually cleaned chickens as part of a commune run by a
religious outfit, not slaughtered though; the guys did that part, and
the plucking. Anybody have any thoughts about these objections to ducks?

Barbara

Diane, best I can do at the moment is refer you to my article on the home waterfowl flock
http://themodernhomestead.us/article/Waterfowl-1.html
Note especially my version of "pond or pool."

Look for my book in September--lotta good stuff about working with waterfowl.

BTW, Carol Deppe wrote a sidebar for my book: Duck vs Slug. It's hilarious.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
www.themodernhomestead.us

My book, THE SMALL-SCALE POULTRY FLOCK: An All-Natural Approach to Raising
Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers, will be published this
year by Chelsea Green Publishing (www.chelseagreen.com).





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