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Title: How we make ducks pay ... an illustrated guide to the profitable breeding of our modern Pekin all-white mammoth ducklings; plain and thorough lessons for beginners and others everywhere who write for the details and secrets of our waterless method..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: American Pekin Duck Company, Boston
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston, Mass., American Pekin duck company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e. The food boardsin this second house are larger than in the nursery. Theyare four feet long and nine inches wide or just wide enoughto be cleaned with a shovel. Before each feeding time,scrape off the sawdust, refuse food, etc., from each boardwith a shovel and throw this refuse into the walk of thehouse. Every four or five days this refuse should be rakedinto a pile and carted out in a wheelbarrow. The No. 2 water fountains used in this second house aremade in the same style as the fountains used in the nursery,only larger, and hold twice as much water. When the ducklings are four weeks old, change thisNo. 2 drinking fountain to the larger or No. 3 size. You may ask why would not one size of water fountainbe all right for all ages. The largest, or No. 3, fountainwould be too large for the little ducklings. They wouldget inside of it and drown. They would also struggle toreach the water and would weaken themselves. Thesmallest size is not large enough for the ducklings after they 65
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YOUNGEST DUCKLINGS have grown because the water then would not be deepenough to reach their nostrils. The nostrils of a duck areplainly visible. They are two open holes at the base ofthe bill. The duckhngs need water deep enough for themto souse their bills completely in it so that they can washfrom nostrils any sawdust or food which may lodge there. To the Cold House. When the ducklings are five weeksold, they are taken (on a large plant) from the secondhouse to a third, called a cold house, that is to say, it has noheating apparatus. If the weather is cold when they arefive weeks old, use your own judgment as to putting theminto the cold house. Wait until a warm, sunny day. Itdepends on the season and the locality. Ducks at this agecan be driven in large flocks. Feed and water the ducklings outdoors in the pens ofthe cold house. They do better if fed outdoors. It de-pends on the weather. If you put them into the pens ofthe outdoor house in the morning of an early spring, and anorthe

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