ng Required
for Breeders--Incubator Capacity--Brooder
Capacity--Fattening Houses or Sheds--Feed
Storage--Killing and Picking House--Resident--Horse
Power--Feeding Track--Electric Lights--Water
Supply--Fences--Labor--Invested Capital--Working
Capital--Profits.
IV. Commercial Duck Farming--Management of the Breeding Stock 55
Age of Breeders--Distinguishing Young from Old
Ducks--Selection of Breeding Ducks--Number of Females to
a Drake--Securing Breeding Drakes--Houses and Yards for
Breeders--Bedding and Cleaning the Breeding
Houses--Cleaning the Breeding Yards--Water Yards for
Breeders--Feeding the Breeders--Egg Production--Time of
Marketing Breeders--Disease--Insect Pests--Dogs.
V. Commercial Duck Farming--Incubation 70
Kinds of incubators used--Incubator Cellar--Incubator
Capacity Required--Age of Hatching Eggs--Care of
Hatching Eggs--Selecting the Eggs for
Hatching--Temperature--Position of
Thermometer--Testing--Turning the Eggs--Cooling the
Eggs--Moisture--Fertility--Hatching--Selling Baby Ducks.
VI. Commercial Duck Farming--Brooding and Rearing the
Young Stock 80
Removing the Newly Hatched Ducklings to the Brooder
House--Brooder Houses Required--Brooder House No.
1--Construction of House--Heating
Apparatus--Pens--Equipment of the Pens--Grading and
Sorting the Ducklings--Cleaning and Bedding the
Pens--Ventilation--Other Types of Brooder Houses--Length
of Time in Brooder House No. 1--Brooder House No.
2--Brooder House No. 3--Yard Accommodations for
Ducklings--Shade--Feeding--Lights for Ducklings--Pounds
of Feed to Produce a Pound of Market Duck--Water for
Young Ducks--Age and Weight when Ready for
Market--Cripples--Cleaning the Yards--Critical Period
with Young Ducks--Disease Prevention--Gapes or
Pneumonia--Fits--Diarrhoea--Lameness--Sore Eyes--Feather
Eating or Quilling--Rats--Cooperative Feed Association.
VII. Commercial Duck Farming--Marketing 102
Proper Age to Market--Weights at Time of Marketing--The
Last Feed for Market Ducks--Sorting Market
Ducklings--Killing--Scalding--Picking--Dry
Picking--Cooling--Packing--Shipping--Coope