Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

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).