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Ducks can be charming companions in suburban backyards.
As someone who never raised so much as a parakeet on her own, the idea that I could look out the window and watch our five full-grown, food-producing, bug-eating, fertilizer-creating waterfowl would have been pure fantasy only two years ago. Actually, it was a fantasy—a dream of my young daughter’s and mine when we moved to comparatively yard-rich Westchester County, New York from the land of tiny lawns, Westside Los Angeles. Like many urban and suburban families,
we saw the cute pictures of folks with their A-frame coops and their adorable hens and said, "That’s what we want!" My husband thought we were flat-out nuts but he loves fresh food and so humored us when we presented my latest eat-local scheme. (I mean, eat really local scheme.) Then, on our way to chicken ownership, we fell in love with another species altogether.
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/7-6/a_beginners_guide_to_ducks_in_suburbia/
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