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[Our Roost]

42 years!! Questions? Do you have chickens also? If so, how do chicks and ducks get along. I just got 2 pekin ducklings that are growing very fast! I have chicks arriving mid april. They already know my voice and come to me to be fondled. Amazing! Hoping you have some better news than what I have been hearing from other chick owners.

 

[Our Roost]

Dear duck raiser! You mentioned having chickens also? Just purchased 2 pekin ducks. Dont know much about housing ducks with chickens? Good idea or bad? We live in a pretty cold climate winter wise. I have a good sized coop and run area. I know ducks usually make a shallow nesting in the ground but dont know if they will take to the coop. Can you answer these questions and enlighten me?

 

[ambrose]

This forum and Storey's are my main duck reality at the moment. So I can't say I've tested it, but as an editor I can say I thought it was a good read. Though there are some sections I'm less interested in at the moment, which i just skipped over.
Overall it feels authoratative. The only thing I need that it didn't give me was a really detailed plan of exactly how to build my backyard duck house/run. (It has a something that a more handy person than I could work with, but i need instructions that tell me: go to the hardware store and buy X# of ABC screws.)
But hey, it convinced me that I want ducks eventually!

 

[Oregon Blues]

42 years!! Questions? Do you have chickens also? If so, how do chicks and ducks get along.

I've had chickens in the past. I don't keep any chickens now, I like ducks better.

In a couple of days, I am getting 50 Cornish Cross chicks, but they will be raised in separate facilities and they won't be here long.

 

[billw]

I thought it was not a great source for beginner information, but it has become more useful once I got past that stage.

 

[GrannyCarol]

I got the Storey's guide before I got ducklings, eight years ago. I found all the information I needed to get started in it and still refer to it whenever something new pops up. It's my go-to guide for everything ducky. I'm not so sure what you'd want to know that isn't in that book (for a beginner). Perhaps its lacking some details regarding what's normal, what's not, things he may assume we know, but I didn't find it lacking and I had no experience. It's very much in depth and detail.

 

[ChristineR]

I've found it to be very helpful. I've had ducks off and on as pets since I was a kid (so about 30 years). I don't have the best memory and I don't raise a lot of ducks, so I find myself looking stuff up fairly often as questions arise.

 

[DB_Tex]

The only thing I needed clarification on was breeding color genetics for welsh harlequins... I found everything else to be pretty complete.

 

[TeamRetic]

I find the book to be kind of helpful, but I am a beginner and recently got my first duck.