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    Minimum space per duck in housing?

    Okay, good to know! Pretty birds! Alright, sounds good. We're going to have electric fencing up around them to make paddocks. I'm thinking about getting a couple of geese as well, but I'm not totally set on that yet. My partner had raised a batch of broiler chickens in the tractors before...
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    Minimum space per duck in housing?

    The tractors are floorless and will just be on grass and get moved daily when the ducks get a new paddock, so cleaning isn't a worry. You'd say 6sq ft even if it's just for nighttime?
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    Minimum space per duck in housing?

    Hi all, how much space per duck would you recommend for pasture-raised Pekin ducks in their housing? We have mobile chicken tractors that are 7X7 (49 sq feet), which would ONLY serve as nighttime shelter - they would otherwise have a pretty huge pasture area to forage during the day. How many...
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    Meat Duck Questions

    Yeah, after doing some looking around I realized most seem to do straight runs only. Oh well!
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    Meat Duck Questions

    Thanks for the input! I have raised ducks before and done a bit of processing, just not in a focused for-sale-project and I wasn't specifically raising meat birds, so I'm less sure of their characteristics (I was given some Khaki Campbell chicks by a friend... and then they all turned out to be...
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    Meat Duck Questions

    Hi all, I'm planning out a meat duck venture for this spring/summer and have a couple questions I'd love input on: What do Pekin ducks usually weigh out to at 9 weeks? Live VS dressed weight? I realized I was doing some of my sale projections based on live weight but obviously there will be...
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