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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] chicken breeds/ducks
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 20:39:53 +0100


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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"Animals Are A Gift"

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