An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks: Breeds, Feeding, Housing and Care, Eggs and Meat by Gail Damerow is an introductory guide for beginners waiting to raise ducks in their yard, on a small homestead, or hobby farm.

Ducks are quickly gaining in popularity with backyard poultry keepers, homesteaders, and hobby farmers. Ducks are friendly, productive, good at eating pests, remarkably healthy, and easy to raise. This introductory guide covers the growth and care of a small flock of backyard ducks, and addresses everything a beginning duck owner needs including breed selection, housing, feeding, health care, understanding behavior, and egg and meat production.

Gail Damerow on her newest book, An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks:

“The opportunity to share my many years of experience raising ducks has been an exciting adventure. It has given me the chance to dispel some of the common myths floating around, especially in comparing ducks to chickens, and also to present all the major breeds of North America, including bantam ducks and Muscovies. Even though this book is titled as an absolute beginner’s guide, I included enough essential information to make it useful beyond the newbie stage. As the class clowns among poultry, ducks are a ton of fun to have. I hope this new book helps spread the joy.”

Gail Damerow has been keeping chickens for nearly 50 years and has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock in more than a dozen books, and is a regular guest author on the McMurray Hatchery blog. Her best-selling titles include Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Health Handbook, Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks, and What’s Killing My Chickens. For more about Ms. Damerow, visit her blog at GailDamerow.com.