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The Backyard Duck Book: For the Love of Ducks - Couverture souple

Murtagh, Nyiri

 
9780643106512: The Backyard Duck Book: For the Love of Ducks
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0643106510 ISBN 13 : 9780643106512
Editeur : CSIRO Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The Backyard Duck Book is a revised edition of Nyiri Murtagh’s popular book, For the Love of Ducks, but with colour photographs of the duck breeds. It covers all aspects of duck husbandry, from selecting a breed and buying ducks to housing, breeding, feeding and health. It includes a description of each of the duck breeds currently available in Australia, the standards for each breed, their egg-laying capacity and their potential as table birds.

The book also has a comprehensive section on artificial incubation of eggs that includes step-by-step instructions on how to test eggs for fertility and defects. Crossbreeding, developing your own lines and raising ducks for meat are also covered.

Backyard poultry farmers, small-acre farmers and hobby farmers will find this book an enjoyable and useful reference.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nyiri Murtagh was raised in a semi-rural environment where there was always a chook, duck or peacock wandering past the front door. He remembers being fascinated by his pet Muscovy duck at the age of three, but it wasn’t until the late 1980s that he began to look for another hobby aside from his car, and he discovered the wonderful world of waterfowl.

At that time, books on waterfowl were pretty much the same as they are now, hard to get, and when Nyiri did find some, they never answered his questions. So he began going to shows, purely as an observer, and spending all his free time watching his birds. It wasn’t long before he was travelling all around Australia, purchasing ducks and geese to add to his collection.

While Nyiri doesn’t show his birds, quite a number of the ducks and geese that he breeds are purchased for showing by exhibitors from around Australia.

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Éditeur
CSIRO Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0643106510
ISBN 13 
9780643106512
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
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