Backyard and Outdoor Living

BUBBA DUCKIES

Lots of people adore ducks. They love their daffy behaviour, comical gait and irrepressible delight in water play. Ducks are not for everyone, though, especially people living in densely packed inner cities.

But if you admire their joie de vivre, have snails everywhere in the garden and are lucky enough to have a leafy area in the backyard, away from neighbours, then ducks will bring hours of pleasure.

SMALL IS SENSIBLE

Like fowls, ducks come in varied sizes and shapes. Bantams have no large counterpart but miniatures have been bred down from standard-sized breeds.

Why have a massive Pekin, as impressive as they are, when you could feed and

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