We’re super excited to share our first book with you! The Impractical Guide to Keeping Pet & Backyard Ducks: How to joyously produce the world’s most expensive eggs from the world’s most adorable animals, is now available through Amazon in paperback and digital/ebook formats.
It would mean the world to us if you’d consider purchasing this book for yourself or as a gift for anyone you know who is interested in raising pet or backyard ducks.
More about the book
The Impractical Guide to Keeping Pet & Backyard Ducks provides a better path forward for people who want healthier, longer-lived ducks that don’t require lots of veterinary care — even if that means they produce fewer eggs per year.
Most duck keeping books borrow advice from commercial egg production operations, wherein ducks are raised to produce the most eggs possible before being culled in 18-24 months. For duck keepers who also value their animals as pets, this approach creates both heartbreak and big vet bills since maximizing egg production takes such a high health toll on ducks.
However, this book isn’t just a detailed how-to guide for raising happy, healthy, long-lived ducks. It’s also a humorous and heartfelt rethink on how and why backyard poultry enthusiasts should raise ducks in the first place — and a call to action to do it better, for the sake of people, poultry, and planet. After reading, you’ll have the confidence and knowledge you need to become excellent duck parents!
Best breeds? How many ducks to get – male, female, or both? How to hatch eggs or raise ducklings? Should you get rescue ducks? Best diet for the long-term health of your ducks? You’ll find answers to all these questions and more in this “impractical” guide!
Why “Impractical”?
Our guide to raising ducks is the first of multiple books we have planned in the Impractical Guide series.
These books are designed to help you master fun and interesting new hobbies that provide a deeper connection with the natural world. These “impractical” hobbies might not always make economic sense, but they make life better!
Each guide is authored by subject matter experts with deep, hands-on experience in the fields they write about — and they’ve often learned to do things a bit unconventionally as a result. You’ll learn, laugh, and master new hobbies that enrich your life while making the world a bit better. Come be impractical with us!
We’ll have more Impractical Guide books published in the months and years ahead! Be sure to also check out The Impractical Guide to Raising Geese: How & why to raise the world’s most underrated and unfairly criticized domestic bird, written by MJ Smith of Hoof & Feather Farm (with Aaron at Tyrant Farms serving as the editor).