38 DUCK DOLLARS 
Figure 1. Figure 2. 
How to Handle Live Birds 
This is the way to pick up and carry the live ducks and drakes which are four 
weeks old or more. (Do not handle the little ducklings just out of the incubator in 
this manner.) Catch the birds by the neck in a firm grasp, as shown 1n Figure 1. 
Never pick up a bird by the body. If you do you will make trouble both for yourself 
and the duck. Carry them from pen to pen, or from pen to killing-house, as shown 
in Figure 2. Do not fear that you will strangle the ducks or break their necks. 
You can carry three or four birds, or more, as Many as you can lift, between two 
hands, in front of your body. 
