What we learned raising backyard ducks + why we didn’t choose chickens! 🦆 скачать в хорошем качестве

What we learned raising backyard ducks + why we didn’t choose chickens! 🦆

Welcome back to the Whole Home, today we're talking about our backyard ducks and all the things we've learned raising Khaki Campbells ducks from ducklings here in the South of England. 🔔 Follow for more lower footprint living + garden life on a budget:    / @thewholehome   🦆 When I looked into getting ducks I couldn't find a lot of the answers I wanted (like "what does a Khaki Campbell duck look like at 1, 2, 3 weeks old?") So this is a full run down of why we chose ducks after 6 years of keeping chickens, the pros and cons, and a look at them week by week as they grow! 🦆 I'm also talking through how we found our ducklings, why we chose Khaki Campbells and Cherry Valley breeds, where the lived as ducklings and now, our go to (cheap and simple) water system, our initial journey with chickens and why we chose ducks rather than chickens, and how we've found the first 5 months. 🦆 I didn't say it in the video but I used preloved.co.uk to find our ducklings for sale in the end and it was a the best resource I could find even if still thin on the kind of ducklings I wanted. *We got our heat lamp second hand and it used black bulbs like this: https://amzn.to/3XuVspr in a lamp like this: https://amzn.to/3ARRgat. But you need to be careful about heat and fire safety and getting the right temps at different weeks, it's very specific! 🦆 SECTIONS + TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Welcome back! 0:00 We started with chickens 2:07 The case for ducks 4:44 The drawback I'd heard 5:12 Picking up our ducklings! (1 week old) 6:29 Housing ducklings 7:10 2 weeks old: Going outside! 8:43 3 + 4 weeks old and Foraging 9:35 6 Weeks old, avian flu, and outdoor housing 11:18 Ducks and the garden 12:57 Khaki Campbell Temperament 14:25 Early eggs! 15:14 Conclusion + more watching