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several times a week. If the ducklings are being 
cared for by a hen, she may be allowed to jump out 
and roam around. The youngsters have no use for 
her, anyway, except as a source of heat, and pay no 
attention when she gets excited over a bug or worm 
and tries to call them to the feast. The hen is 
likely to get disgusted with her charges rather early, 
but that does not matter, for they become large 
enough in a few weeks to dispense with her services. 
Even after the ducks are full grown a low fence 
will confine them and they give much less trouble 
than hens. They may be driven like sheep from 
place to place, as the flock always keep together, 
and suffer little from vermin. 
If given a wide range, the Indian Runners will 
pick up a large percentage of their rations, for they 
are excellent foragers. When confined, it is most 
important that they have green food in abundance. 
Grass clippings and the refuse from the garden 
should go into their pen and it is well to grow let- 
tuce, cress or other vegetables for them. 
The birds of this breed do not dress as heavy or 
as attractively as Pekin ducks, which are the table 
ducks par excellence, but the meat is fine-grained 
and ynsurpassed in flavor, T he Runners make ex- 
