Duck Farming

About

"A Tendor Milk-fed Duck, done to a turn", feather pluckers (funny!), 34 pounds of feed will raise a duck of 5 pounds dressed! ducks to the right of me, ducks to the left of me! Ducks, ducks and more ducks.

Great footage of early commercial duck farming practices; large industrial duck farm around 1920s in Long Island, New York.

11:26:50:19 VS Pekin or Peking ducks; hundreds of ducks on farm.

11:27:43:13 VS Muscovy ducks and muscovy chicks.

11:28:27:13 Runner duck.

11:28:49:01 Mallard ducks along chicken wire fence.

11:29:15:02 VS various breeds of ornamental ducks in pond.

11:31:25:26 VS ‘Chicken hen’ acting as foster mother to ducklings.

11:31:55:08 Dozens of ducklings raised in brooder.

11:32:17:08 Large commercial industrial duck farm with thousands of Pekin or Peking ducklings.

11:32:57:25 CU dozens of Pekin ducks crowded close together.

11:33:09:25 Man attends to duckling incubator.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animals

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