Ducks and Geese

by Harry M. Lamon; Rob R. Slocum

After plucking, the feathers must be cured before they are shipped. This may be done by spreading them out on a floor as described for the feathers taken from slaughtered geese or they may be placed loosely in burlap sacks and hung up in a garret or loft. Hanging in this way and in the loosely woven sacks, they are subjected to a good circulation of air and will dry out without heating. Sacks of feathers should not be piled or packed closely together, on top of one another or even be allowed to lie on the floor until they are thoroughly dry as otherwise they are almost sure to heat and mold.

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INDEX

• A
• Absence of crest in Crested White Duck, [34]
• African Goose, [156], [157]
• Age of
  • breeding ducks, [55], [123]
  • breeding geese, [152]
  • duck eggs for hatching, [72]
  • ducklings for market, [96], [102], [136]
  • green geese, [187]
  • Muscovy duck, [31]
• Amount of feed
  • per pound of market duck, [95]
  • for noodled geese, [197]
• Amount of land
  • for duck plant, [46]
  • for goose fattening farm, [208]
• Arrangement of cars for shipping live geese, [202]
• Arrangement of duck plant, [45]
• Artificial water yards for ducks, [62]
• Aylesbury duck, [23]

• B
• Baby ducks, selling, [78]
• Bantam ducks, [27], [29]
• Bean,
  • definition of, [13]
  • black in, [22], [23], [35]
• Bedding
  • brood coop for goslings, [180]
  • duck breeding houses, [60]
  • duck brooder houses, [87]
  • goose breeding houses, [168]
  • pens for fattening geese, [195]
• Beef scrap, feeding, to ducks, [64]
• Bib in
  • Blue Swedish ducks, [33]
  • Buff ducks, [36]
• Bill,
  • definition of, [13]
  • black in, of Black East India, [29]
• Black East India duck, [29]
• Black in bean of
  • Aylesbury, [23]
  • Crested White Duck, [35]
  • Pekin, [22]
• Black bill in Black East India drakes, [29]
• Black
  • head, greenish, in Buff drakes, [35]
  • head, in Fawn and White Runners, [37]
  • in face of Muscovy, [32]
  • plumage of Blue Swedish, [33]
  • on head of young White Muscovy, [32]
  • tail coverts, greenish, in Fawn and White Runners, [37]
• Bleeding
  • ducks, [105]
  • geese, [206], [209]
• Blue
  • cast in Buff ducks, [36]
  • Muscovy, [32]
  • Swedish ducks, [33]
  • wing bar in Buff ducks, [35]
• Body shape in breeding ducks, selecting for, [19]
• Braining geese, [206], [209]
• Breaking up
  • goose matings, [154]
  • broody geese, [175]
• Breast-bone as index of age in ducks, [56]
• Breeding
  • drakes, securing, [58]
  • ducks, opportunity to produce, [6]
  • ducks, prices for, [7]
  • season for ducks, [124]
• Breeds of ducks, [9]
  • Aylesbury, [23]
  • Blue Swedish, [33]
  • broodiness of, [18]
  • Buff, [35]
  • Call, [27]
  • Cayuga, [25]
  • common or puddle, [9]
  • Crested White, [34]
  • East India, [29]
  • egg, [11]
  • egg production of, [15]
  • Mallard, [10]
  • Mandarin, [10]
  • meat, [11]
  • mule, [9]
  • Muscovy, [29]
  • ornamental, [11]
  • Pekin, [21]
  • popularity of, [14]
  • Rouen, [23]
  • Runner, [36]
  • size of, [14]
  • Wood, [10]
• Breeds of geese, [147]
  • African, [156]
  • Canadian, [159]
  • Chinese, [158]
  • common, [148]
  • Egyptian, [160]
  • Embden, [156]
  • mongrel, [148]
  • Sebastapol, [148]
  • Toulouse, [155]
  • Wild, [159]
• Brood coop for goslings, [179]
• Brooder
  • capacity on duck plants, [47]
  • houses for ducklings, [80-90]
• Brooders for goslings, [180]
• Broodiness of
  • ducks, [18]
  • geese, [152]
  • geese, breaking up, [175]
• Brooding
  • ducklings, [80-90], [131]
  • goslings, [178]
    • by artificial means, [180]
    • with geese, [179]
    • with hens, [179]
    • without artificial heat, [180]
• Brown Chinese goose, [158]
• Brownish color in Cayuga ducks, [26]
• Buff Ducks, [35]
• Button head in Call ducks, [28]
• Buying geese for fattening, [200]

• C
• Call ducks, 27
• Canadian goose—see Wild
• Capacity of
  • car for geese, [202]
  • farm for fattening geese, [208]
  • incubator for duck eggs, [130]
• Capital,
  • invested, for duck plant, [53]
  • working, for duck plant, [54]
• Care of
  • duck eggs for hatching, [73], [128]
  • goose eggs for hatching, [172]
  • growing goslings, [181]
  • hen sitting on goose eggs, [174]
• Carrying
  • ducks, [39]
  • geese, [162]
• Caruncles on face of Muscovy, [29]
• Cases, shipping, for duck eggs, [119], [137]
• Catching
  • ducks, [39]
  • geese, [162]
• Cayuga duck, [25]
• Celery seed, feeding, to fattening ducks, [93]
• Changing feed for fattening geese, [205]
• Chestnut colored head in Buff drakes, [35]
• Chilling of goslings by rain, [181]
• Chinese goose, [158]
• Chocolate colored ducks from Colored Muscovy, [32]
• Claret in breast of Rouen drakes, deficiency of, [24]
• Classification of breeds of ducks, [11]
• Cleaning
  • brood coops for goslings, [179]
  • duck
    • breeding houses, [60]
    • brooder houses, [87]
    • yards, [61], [97]
  • goose breeding houses, [168]
• Cleanliness of plumage as indication of health, [19]
• Color of
  • duck eggs, [17]
  • goose eggs, [152]
• Colored flights in
  • Fawn and White Runners, [37]
  • Penciled Runners, [38]
• Colored Muscovy, [31]
• Commercial duck farming,
  • opportunity for, [4]
  • distribution of, [42]
• Condition of
  • breeding geese, [169]
  • ducks ready to kill, [96]
  • geese for fattening, [200]
  • geese ready to kill, [206]
• Conditioning exhibition ducks, [38]
• Conditions for duck raising on the farm, [120]
• Confining goslings to yards, [181]
• Considerations, general, in making
  • duck matings,[ 18-21]
  • goose matings, [154]
• Consistency of feed for
  • ducks, [65], [126], [133]
  • fattening geese, [205]
• Construction of brooder houses for ducks, [82]
• Cooking geese to overcome greasiness, [194]
• Cooling duck
  • carcasses, [108]
  • eggs during incubation, [75], [131]
• Cooling goose
  • carcasses, [207], [211]
  • eggs during incubation, [175]
• Coop, growing, for goslings, [182]
• Cooperative
  • feed buying, [101]
  • marketing, [110]
• Copper colored head of Buff drakes, [36]
• Cost of picking
  • ducks, [107]
  • geese, [207]
• Creaminess in plumage of
  • Aylesbury, [23]
  • Pekin, [23]
• Crest,
  • tendency toward, in the Pekin, [22]
  • of Muscovy, [29]
  • of Crested White, [34]
• Crested White duck, [34]
• Crippled ducks, [97], [104]
• Critical period with young ducks, [98]
• Crooked back
  • in ducks, [19]
  • in Runner ducks, [37]
• Crooked crest in Crested White, [34]
• Crooked tail in ducks, [19]
• Crossed feathers on neck of Pekin drake, [22]
• Crossing African and Brown Chinese geese, [157]
• Curing
  • duck feathers, [117]
  • goose feathers, [211], [213]

• D
• Darkening pens
  • for fattening geese, [195]
  • for noodling geese, [196]
• Dewlap in
  • Toulouse geese, [155]
  • African geese, [157]
• Diarrhoea
  • of ducklings, [99]
  • of goslings, [185]
• Diseases
  • of ducklings, [98-100]
  • of goslings, [185]
  • of mature ducks, [69]
  • prevention of, [98]
• Dished bill in Rouen, [24]
• Distinguishing
  • sex
    • in ducks, [13], [135]
    • in geese, [165]
  • young from old ducks, [55]
• Distribution of duck raising, [3]
• Dogs a source of loss in ducks, [69]
• Double crest in Crested White ducks, [34]
• Down, removing,
  • from market ducks, [108]
  • from market geese, [207], [210]
• Drake,
  • definition of, [12]
  • adult, meaning of, [13]
  • young, meaning of, [13]
• Drakerel, definition of, [13]
• Drinking dishes
  • for ducklings, [86]
  • for goslings, [183]
• Driving geese from railway to farm, [202]
• Drowning ducks, [31], [128], [135]
• Dry, keeping goslings, [181]
• Dry land duck farms, [44]
• Dry picking
  • ducks, [107]
  • geese, [206]
• Duck,
  • definition of, [12]
  • adult, meaning of, [13]
  • young, meaning of, [13]
• Duck raising
  • as a side line, [120]
  • distribution of, [3]
  • for egg production, [5]
  • for ornamental purposes, [7]
  • kinds of, [4]
  • on the general farm, [5]
  • opportunities for, [4], [120]
• Ducklet, definition of, [13]
• Duckling, meaning of, [12]
• Ducks,
  • number of,
    • in leading states, [3]
    • in U. S., [3]
  • value of, in U. S., [3]
• Dun colored ducks from Colored Muscovy, [32]

• E
• Egg class of ducks, [11]
• Egg production,
  • duck raising for, [5]
  • of breeds of ducks, [15]
  • of breeds of geese, [150]
  • of Pekins on commercial plants, [66]
  • selection of breeders for, [21]
• Eggs, duck,
  • color of, [17]
  • for hatching,
    • age of, [72]
    • care of, [73], 128
    • frequency of setting, [72]
    • packing and shipping, [40]
    • prices of, [7]
    • selection of, [73]
    • washing, [130]
  • marketing, [118]
  • size of, [16]
• Eggs, goose,
  • care of, for hatching, [172]
  • color of, [152]
  • size of, [151]
  • washing for hatching, [172]
• Egyptian goose, [160]
• Electric lights
  • for breeding ducks, [67]
  • for duck plants, [51]
  • for ducklings, [94]
  • for fattening geese, [205]
• Embden goose, [156]
• Equipment of pens in duck brooders, [86]
• Examining
  • geese to determine sex, [165]
  • fattened geese for market condition, [206]
• Extent of
  • duck industry, [3]
  • goose industry, [141]
• Eye as indication of health in ducks, [19]

• F
• Faded gray in Brown Chinese geese, [158]
• Fading of color in
  • Buff ducks, [35]
  • Cayuga ducks, [27]
  • Gray Call ducks, [28]
  • Rouen ducks, [25]
• Fasting geese before fattening, [203]
• Fattening farms for geese, [199]
• Fattening geese,
  • by noodling, [196]
  • methods of, [194]
  • on farms in the east, [200]
  • on farms in the middle west, [199]
  • on large fattening farms, [199-208]
  • pen, [195]
• Fattening houses or sheds for ducklings, [48]
• Fattening summer geese, [202]
• Fawn and White Runner, [37]
• Fawn colored breasts in Rouen females, [25]
• Fawn on neck, too much, in Fawn and White Runner, [37]
• Feather eating in ducklings, [100]
• Feathered legs in ducks, [19]
• Feathers,
  • saving duck, [117]
  • saving geese, [207], [211]
  • plucking from live geese, [212]
• Feed, cooperative buying of, [101]
• Feed cooker
  • for ducks, [49]
  • cutter for ducks, [49]
  • last, for market ducklings, [103]
  • mixer for ducks, [49]
  • storage for duck plant, [49]
  • troughs or trays for ducks, [66]
  • troughs for fattening geese, [205]
  • wagon
    • for ducks, [65]
    • for geese, [205]
• Feeding
  • breeding ducks, [63]
  • breeding geese, [169]
  • Call ducks, [27]
  • ducklings, [92], [132]
  • fattening geese, [195], [196], [203]
  • geese during shipment, [202]
  • goslings, [183]
  • growing and fattening ducklings, [92-94], [132]
  • noodles to geese, [198]
  • show ducks, [39]
  • show geese, [161]
  • supply geese on fattening farms, [202]
  • track on duck plants, [51], [65]
• Fences
  • for ducks, [52], [128]
  • for fattening geese, [203]
  • for geese, [168]
• Fertility of duck eggs, [20], [77]
• Fireless brooding goslings, [180]
• First feed
  • for ducklings, [92]
  • for goslings, [183]
• Fish, feeding, to ducks, [63], [92], [134]
• Fits in ducklings, [99]
• Flat breast in Aylesburys, [23]
• Flatiron shape in Call ducks, [28]
• Folded feathers on neck of Pekin drake, [22]
• Foreign color in back of White Runner ducks, [37]
• Free range
  • for ducks, [120]
  • for geese, [168]
  • for goslings, [182]
• Freezing of ducks to the ground, [62], [128]
• Frequency
  • of plucking live geese for feathers, [212]
  • of setting duck eggs, [72]
• Frightening
  • breeding ducks, [67]
  • ducklings, [94]
  • fattening geese, [205]