162 EGGS AND POULTRY 
DUCKS NEED SPECIAL QUARTERS 
Does it pay to keep ducks with chickens? 
No, unless you have a sufficient range of the 
proper kind that the little ducks can be 
grown for about six weeks without supplying 
them with much bought feed, and then fur- 
nishing them for three weeks. Ducks eat 
four to five times as much feed as growing 
chickens. | While they grow much faster, 
still if you have to supply all the feed from 
hatching to selling time you will find they 
do not pay for the trouble, when kept with 
chickens. There is plenty of work to do in 
spring and summer if you expect to succeed 
with chickens, so you need to avoid any more 
work and detail other than absolutely neces- 
sary. Ducks would mean extra work as they 
have to be fed more often and differently 
from the chickens. 
I had eight ducks and two drakes last year. 
While I raised 100 little ducks, I sold young 
and old as I found that dividing my time and 
energy did not pay. Of course, these re- 
marks do not apply to the keeping of a few 
for one’s personal use, but only to the raising 
of a quantity for market, in conjunction with 
‘chickens. If you must try, however, let me 
say that growing ducks are cute. They are 
