When you just get into gardening, the thrill of seeing plants grow, develop, and thrive is hard to describe. From just a tiny seed or a fragment of a cutting all the way to a mature plant, it really is something to see! But sometimes a plant will make it, other times it won’t. When
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There is hardly any image cuter and more innocent than a fluffy, fuzzy and perfectly yellow duckling. Whether it’s sitting serenely in the palm of your hand or a troop of them is diligently following their mother to water, they are so adorable it’s hard to stand it. What you might not know is that
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One of the biggest limiting factors when it comes to keeping livestock of any kind is space, and for some homesteaders, even when you look to a truly small species like ducks you still might not have the room they require in order to thrive and stay healthy. It can be frustrating, even heartbreaking! But
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Ducks are like most other animals out here, in that the many different breeds and species have wildly different physical characteristics: color, build, weight, and of course, height. But just looking at different species of birds and narrowing it down further to poultry like chickens and geese, ducks are surprisingly variable in their overall size
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One of the best things about chickens is their versatility. They can provide us with both eggs and meat, and to that end there are many breeds that have been selectively developed to those ends. Today we have chickens that lay crazy amounts of eggs, and also huge birds that can provide us with loads
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One of the greatest joys about owning poultry and bird watching is spotting all the different kinds and colors of birds that are out there. Truly, they come in every color of the rainbow, but if there’s one color that gets overlooked more often than not, I would say it has to be brown. I
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When it comes to keeping poultry, ducks have advantages all their own. And although you won’t see as many domestic breeds as you will with chickens, there’s still a huge variety out there to consider. Some of the coolest ducks around are those with long necks. These long-necked birds have a graceful, swan-like appearance, but
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If you’ve been doing any research on ducks lately with the hopes of getting your own flock, you might feel a little left out if you’re anything like me. That’s because most of the info out there concerning them is oriented towards production: meat and eggs! But for me and probably also for you, the
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In many ways, goats can be ideal livestock. They aren’t too big, are surprisingly productive, affordable, and they don’t require too much land. You can easily handle a large herd of goats yourself once you know what you’re doing. But just like every other livestock species, picking the right breed counts for a lot. If
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Ducks have been kept as poultry for ages, and that’s a practice that continues today. In fact, many homesteaders are coming around on the advantages of ducks compared to chickens. Ducks are a little bigger, yes, but they also tend to be far healthier, more self-sufficient, and easier to care for overall, while still providing
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