Category: Ducks
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Abundance Begins
Our first real garden harvest of the growing season is the abundant and lush beauty that washes over our landscape in May. This feast for the senses nourishes us just as much as the fruit and calorie-dense staple crops that come later on. What’s most amazing to me is that before I began homesteading, I…
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Raising Ducklings – Week 3 (with video)
I’d like to start this post by wishing a Happy 70th (day) Birthday to the gorgeous stars of the duckling video in this post and also in my previous posts: Raising Ducklings Week 1 (with video) Raising Ducklings Week 2 (with video). I faithfully took videos of these 13 beautiful Muscovy ducklings every day for…
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Raising Ducklings Week 2 (with Video)
This article is part of a series on what life with ducks is like. It’s intended to give new duck keepers, duck dreamers, and anyone who needs some adorable diversion an inside look at simple ways to keep ducks. Be forewarned, my point in creating these posts is to make you want to keep ducks…
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Raising Ducklings Week 1 (with Video)
Mama Madge, one of my free range Muscovy ducks, hatched out 13 adorable ducklings on August 26. Up until two years ago, we had so little predator pressure on our homestead, that she could have raised these ducklings to maturity on our large pond with no help from me. Unfortunately, the predators finally found us.…
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Must Love Ducks
My love for ducks was instant. After touring a traditional duck farm in France in my mid-twenties, I dreamed of having my own ducks someday. You know… in some distant, alternate future where I could create the life I really wanted. Back then, I mistakenly thought homesteading was only a make believe dream conjured to…
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Brooding Ducklings
If you want to learn how raise your own ducklings more like a mama duck would, then take a look at this post on Morning Chores for more details. Also, if you plan to hatch your own duck eggs, then you may want to take a look at this post. And, use this calculator to…
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Incubating Duck Eggs
Learn how broody ducks incubate their eggs and use that knowledge to hatch your own eggs at home.