Keeping Ducks
How Comfortable Are You with Duck & Goose Down Production?
When I was a small child back in the seventies we had a family eider down. It was a hand me (eider) down from my
When I was a small child back in the seventies we had a family eider down. It was a hand me (eider) down from my
Ducklings and Goslings will follow the first moving object they find after hatching. They treat it as their mother. So even if it’s a large man with a big hairy beard, he becomes ‘mum’!
Note: This article on how to care for wild baby ducks pertains to wild Mallard ducklings only. Domestic breeds of duck require different types of
Zoe Brodie-James has written several articles on the welfare of ducks for us, some of which have been quite moving but none of them have
Most of us have been aware of High Fernley Whittingstall’s ongoing campaign to raise the welfare standards of British commercially reared chickens, but what about
Zoe Brodie-James investigates the ethics and law of releasing domestic ducks into the wild on the local pond and finds some sad and sometimes illegal scenarios that go on there.