Pet & Backyard Ducks
Do you want to produce the world’s most expensive eggs? Have a desire to be enslaved by adorable feathered pigs? Want to fall in love with animals that poop 10 times per minute and sound like broken bagpipes? Then start building a predator-proof coop, because ducks are your dream come true!
Dive (or dabble) into the duck keeping topics you want to know more about:
our book
The Impractical Guide to Raising Ducks
How to joyously produce the world’s most expensive eggs from the world’s most adorable animals
The Impractical Guide to Keeping Pet & Backyard Ducks isn’t just a detailed how-to guide for raising happy, healthy, long-lived ducks. It’s also a humorous and heartfelt rethink on how and why backyard poultry enthusiasts should raise ducks in the first place — and a call to action to do it better, for the sake of people, poultry, and planet.
Meet our flock & supporting characters. What they lack in size they make up for in personality!
pippa
piper
marty
Izzy
Primrose
olive
poppy
thelma
louise
Duck Keepers Corner
Duck Keeper’s Corner is a vodcast dedicated to providing clear, honest, and experience-based information for pet and backyard duck keepers.
Episode 1: Pros and cons of owning ducks – or being owned by ducks.
Featured guest: Melanie from Ducks of Providence (and Hertha the duck, above)
Episode 2: Muscovy Ducks vs. Mallard-derived ducks.
Featured guest: Hannah from Raising Ducks (and Snow the Muscovy, above)
Episode 3: Coming Soon!
Featured guest: TBD
Most Recent Posts
All about henopause (poultry menopause)
All about bird flu / avian influenza with Dr. Maurice Pitesky
How natural sunlight affects pet and backyard ducks
What are crested ducks – and should backyard duck keepers get them?
Beginner’s guide to raising ducks: 17 things you should know
Duck Health Guide: First Aid Kit Essentials, Egg Issues, Tips & Recommended Reading
SECOND interview with Dr. Scott Echols: Duck nutrition & healthcare
Duck nutrition & healthcare: FIRST video interview with Dr. Scott Echols
14 benefits of adding a backyard pond
How to tube feed a duck (with instructional video!)
Interview with Carolina Waterfowl Rescue founder Jennifer Gordon
Rescue ducks vs buying from stores & breeders – which is best?
Need duck coop ideas? Come tour Waddle Inn!
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gardening
Learn no-dig organic gardening, discover rare and unusual edibles, and create a wildlife sanctuary in your yard!
Foraging
Unlock the bounty of nature’s grocery store by learning to safely find, ID, and use edible plants and fungi growing in your bioregion.
recipes
Discover recipes to transform your foraged or garden-fresh ingredients into healthy, gourmet, homemade meals and beverages!
