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deb
deb
10 years ago

So funny to see texas with ice…

I wonder if you have any comments or opinions as to geese breeds. Looks like you have all Toulouse? Have you had any experience with the African geese and how they compare? Am ordering a pair of goslings soon, just not sure which breed to get.
ps. Why is Buddy named so? (Since she is a girl)

Lisa
Lisa
10 years ago

Jack, how many ducks do you have and how much feed do they go through? Getting ready to put order in for ducks from Metzger Farms but having a hard time deciding between 30 and 60 ducks. With 60 you get free males. We have have many acres to free range them but a lot of predators.

Steven Harris
10 years ago

I guess The Duck Chronicles has moved away from its daily schedule and gone to a more intermittent one. Can’t blame Jack, now that they are half grown how much can change from day to day. I was looking forward to seeing them in the swale.

I only have one other question in my head. How much feed, that you supply, do you think the 50 ducks will eat when at laying age, what is the price of the feed, how many eggs a day do you expect and what are you selling the eggs for ? I think you said earlier that they were $7 / Dozen.

Steve

Steven Harris
10 years ago
Reply to  Steven Harris

Jack… I think those feed and egg dollar numbers are so important that you should talk about that in The Duck Chronicles. It might really get some people off the fence post and realize how much of a premium these can go for. $145 dollars gross per year per bird, and that’s for 250 eggs, not 300, then 50 ducks will gross $7250 per year. AND you don’t have to mow the grass AND you don’t have to spray for any pests in the garden or yard that are at beak level and below AND you get free fertilizer AND you get aeration of your grass and corps.

Do you get crickets down in Texas… .do the ducks eat the crickets as well. Lord I hate crickets…

Steve

Steven Harris
10 years ago

Wow Jack… did not mean to make you write a book, put everything you just told me into an episode of The Duck Chronicles, I’m not sure if you realize how big of a hit that is going to be on youtube in the years to come. Its an incredible instructional and probably the best lesson on permaculture a person is going to get outside of a PDC or a really good book.

Steve

Steven Harris
10 years ago
Reply to  Steven Harris

Chris… Jack wants to go with what works. He wants to sell eggs. The ducks out perform the chickens, they take the weather better, the ducks don’t destroy the garden, the chickens do, the geese dont lay eggs but for a short season so what’s wrong with this monoculture when the other cultures are destructive or non performing in their own behavior ??

There are so many different things in permaculture I think the best permaculture is what is right and works for YOU.

Steve

MJ
MJ
10 years ago

I can vouch for stink bugs burning and tasting like hell. Unbeknownst to me, one crawled into a glass that I was drinking from. I took it in will a big gulp and couldn’t spit it out fast enough! It left such a nasty taste and burning sensation in my mouth and tongue for well over an hour! Nastiest thing I ever tasted!

Chris
Chris
10 years ago

Aren’t you concerned about “monoculture” risk? If you’re all ducks all the time, something could happen that would wipe you out completely? I thought one primary premise of permaculture was polyculture?

Thanks for all you do
Chris
Imperial, MO