Duck Farming

Duck Farming

Rejissyor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animals. "A Tendor Milk-fed Duck, done to a turn", feather pluckers (funny!), 34 pounds of feed will raise a duck of 5 pounds dressed! ducks to the right of me, ducks to the left of me! Ducks, ducks and more ducks. Great footage of early commercial duck farming practices; large industrial duck farm around 1920s in Long Island, New York. 11:26:50:19 VS Pekin or Peking ducks; hundreds of ducks on farm. 11:27:43:13 VS Muscovy ducks and muscovy chicks. 11:28:27:13 Runner duck. 11:28:49:01 Mallard ducks along chicken wire fence. 11:29:15:02 VS various breeds of ornamental ducks in pond. 11:31:25:26 VS ‘Chicken hen’ acting as foster mother to ducklings. 11:31:55:08 Dozens of ducklings raised in brooder. 11:32:17:08 Large commercial industrial duck farm with thousands of Pekin or Peking ducklings. 11:32:57:25 CU dozens of Pekin ducks crowded close together. 11:33:09:25 Man attends to duckling incubator. 11:33:22:23 Tray of ducklings freshly hatched standing on top of broken egg shells. 11:33:42:11 Great shot thousands of ducklings in a brooder. 11:34:02:06 Dozens of 3 to 4 week old ducklings. 11:34:32:00 Hundreds of ducks come running out of brooder into fenced-off outdoor section. 11:34:53:11 VS Outdoor section of brooder or growing house with thousands of duck; outdoor area of brooding house divided into fenced of sections with each section containing around 300 ducks in several dozens sections. 11:35:22:25 VS Pekin ducks eating out of feeding troughs. 11:38;05:11 LS man slaughtering ducks and hang them up to bleed; ducks are scalded to loosen their feathers; VS ducks scalded. 11:38:44:16 Women picking feathers off duck, room and table covered in duck feathers. 11:39:09:02 Two men pack ducks in barrels with ice. 11:39:42:27 1920s woman in kitchen prepares duck; CU duck on silver platter, platter garnished with parsley. 11:40:26:20 Great high-angle shot over Long Island duck farm, thousands of ducks fenced into various sections.

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