Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

I have as many ducks as chickens. Reliable layers, delicious to eat. Great 
to patrol around the vegetable garden and keep out slugs.
Only problem to me is that they like to roam farther than any other species 
of poultry I got and that they sometimes meet a fox head on and loose.
john

> 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 M
> Foster, RI
>
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