NRI oh another greeny picking on someone else's work!!! How would you run this business? Oh wait you prob don't want any animals producing anything? Just lets all eat grass because NRI said so! How's your duck farm going NRI? Oh wait your just some hobo behind a screen telling people what's good and what's not. Do you buy anything from the supermarket?? Because I'm sure you would know that supermarkets are the only disgusting places. Everything is mass produced and sprayed with chemicals, overcrowded, foul smelling living conditions but because it ain't on RU-vid it doesn't open your eyes to it, this guy said he's running at a third of what he could run and you want to pick holes in that? Go buy Some land and start your own duck farm loser
Thank you for the video! We are starting to do this in Michigan, USA. Free range, cage free and have only 100 right now and are increasing in every year. Nice to see others doing it also. Very hard developing a market here for Duck eggs though. Can't believe it.
It is funny, but at same time, not really a surprise. I like to seek out others that are doing the same thing for a greater purpose and the folks at Gold Shaw fit that bill. He hasnt made it over to any of my videos yet, but it is nice to see someone else having some of the same learning curve issues.
Arctic Foxx yea I'm from New Zealand living in Chile now and it's a lot more common to grow your own here. I did 50 Cornish cross and 50 Peking ducks last year winter is just starting now tho sadly. I have 3 Pekins left and they've started laying so may start my own eggs this spring, I had Cayuga ducks when I was in New Zealand and really like them compared with the Peking for meat
Honestly this is a humane way to meet human needs in current times. Yes this isn’t as “organic” as some may like, but you can see they at least put some effort into the animals’ comfort.
I am an Indian & Bengali , any one who had had boiled duck eggs in Bengali curry alongwith chapati/rice /tortilla/ bread will go on a flashback of how tasty it is ! Lol from India .
Wow. I never heard of duck eggs used in Indian cuisine. Although I will say that Indian dishes and flavors are my favorite. Spicy mutton is my favorite.
Another way to do the building would be on rails like a rail road track so they would not be standing in their pop You could plant in the areas that they are not currently in. if it's cold a low green house so it would not be affect by wind to warm to growing temps you could have marked spaces and insulated Below frost line to keep ground at Earth temp or above with use of the a green house
I’d love it if you’d put out a video on your composting regime. I didn’t think using pine shaving was good for composting because of the pine resins and acidity. We live in Eastern Washington State at a high elevation on 20 acres of wooded Forrest. We have heavy clay and rock soil, other then in the forest where it’s loom for several inches. I can make lots of pine shavings as we limb trees. So I’d like to see how you compost your bedding.
@Jacey's POV, If they're sitting on fertile eggs, they get very upset if any are taken The ducks can tell if their eggs are fertile, or not. Ducks do not begin sitting on their clutch until about the 10th day. Once they begin sitting, they will push out any unfertilized eggs from the nest. However, this operation is not producing fertile eggs. Any breeding they permit is being done in another area.
I think the Mitchells care for their ducks humanely. Fresh food, fresh water, fresh bedding, fairly spacious open-air barn that gets natural light, spacious sleeping/laying units with fresh bedding to lay down in. Perhaps a little more outside activities, but other than that, they have it pretty good compared to others. At least here in the United States, many many poultry meat and egg concerns have these poor things living in steel cages in their own filth in windowless sheds. Just horrific. The Mitchells appear to view their ducks as living things rather than inventory. Alas, they're not perfect, but this is not a perfect world.
Ducks obviously are kept in a clean environment and are healthy nutrional wise. However you can see that feather health is definitely not where it needs to be. There is even one shot of the duck taking the drinking water and trying to preen its feathers. So the natural instinct is still there and sadly they are deprived of doing what comes natural to their fullest ability. But for those who worry about the ducks having no pool you must realize these are not considered pets and these farms are not concerned with dealing with the mess that having a duck pool encompasses. Which would be a huge mess with this many ducks. They only are concerned with egg production. After one year a ducks egg count decreases and tapers off slowly. so these ducks are likely replaced often. But lets still be compassionate that they still do a very good job giving these ducks the best quality of life they can without having a pool.
