Waterfowl Books
Mute Swan
( .... initial mating to the hatching of the cygnets....)
Author: Janet Kear. Soft cover, 24 pg., color & b/w photos. Booklet describes a year in the life of a Mute Swan. Covers the initial mating to the hatching of the cygnets. Also has info on feeding and appropriate food for swans.
Covatutto 40 Egg Incubator
Brinsea Octagon 20 Incubator - Manual Turn
Chicktec Vision 30 Automatic
New Duck Handbook
(.... housing, care, feeding, disease, and breeding....)
Author: Hienz-Sigurd Raethel. Soft cover, 2005 Edition 135pp., color photos & b/w illustrations. A very informative book on ornamental and domestic ducks. Tells everything about housing, care, feeding, disease, and breeding. Also covers commercial uses of ducks.
Octagon 20 ADVANCE EX digital egg incubator
Chick Chalet Brooders
Gamebird Incubators
Poultry & Waterfowl Problems
( .... most common diseases and health problems of chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, and turkeys...)
Author: Michael Roberts. Soft cover, 89 pp., b/w photos. Book has good, easy to understand explanations of most common diseases and health problems of chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, and turkeys. A lot of good, useful information is in this small book.
Octagon 20 ADVANCE EX digital egg incubator
1550 Hatcher Incubator
1536 & 1527 Horizontal Rotation Incubators
Raising Ducks & Geese
(.... Basic information on incubating, brooding, feed, shelter, sanitation...)
Author: John M. Vivian. Soft cover, 31 pg., b/w illustrations. Basic information on incubating, brooding, feed, shelter, sanitation, and controlling your ducks & geese.
Octagon 20 ADVANCE digital egg incubator
Basic Incubators for School or Home
PRM Octagon 20 Rearing Module
Rearing & Restoring Canada Goose
( ...Talks about history, propagation, establishing free-flying flocks, management, breeding ...)
Author: North Dakota Game & Fish Department, Bismarck, ND. Soft cover, 79 pg., b/w photos & illustrations. Talks about history, propagation, establishing free-flying flocks, management, breeding and many other topics.
YFXF-15 Tunnel Style Setter
MG 100/150 Egg Incubator
Sussessful Duck & Goose Raising
(... Description on breeding, hatching, rearing, sexing, housing, feeding ...)
Author: Darrell Sheraw, co-author: Loyl Stromberg. Soft cover, 204 pg., b/w photos, paintings, & diagrams. Description on breeding, hatching, rearing, sexing, housing, feeding and penning both young and adult stock. Also a section on dealing with special problems, ailments and diseases of waterfowl. Some specific breeds are talked about.
Maino MPS12A Incubator
Covatutto 120 Egg Incubator - Auto Turning
MG 100/150 Egg Incubator
Swan Breeding & Management
(.... Also covers care, breeding, incubation, pinioning, feeding, sexing, diseases...)
Author: Loyl Stromberg. Soft cover, 95 pg., color photos and b/w photos, illustrations. Description of various species of swans. Also covers care, breeding, incubation, pinioning, feeding, sexing, diseases and transporting.
Brinsea Polyhatch - 42 hen egg incubator
Maino ME3A Egg Incubator
Fiem Mercurious 144 egg incubator
Swan Keeper's Handbook: A Guide to the Care of Captive Swans
( .... Practical info on feeding, breeding, behavior, habitat development, & maintenance...)
Hardcover 152 pages. A very beautiful book with many, many color photos through-out. This book is designed for the layman who will be managing swans in a captive setting. Practical info on feeding, breeding, behavior, habitat development, & maintenance. Healthcare and genetics also included.
Maino MPS 18 Egg Incubator
Maino PioPio Cabinet Incubator
Maino ME3A Egg Incubator
The Wood Duck & The Mandarin
( .... Covers the history, habitats, and conservation ...)
Authors: Lawton L. Shurtleff and Christopher Savage. Hard cover, 232 pg., many color photographs. Lengthy chapters on each species. Covers the history, habitats, and conservation.
Octagon 20 ADVANCE EX digital egg incubator
1550 Hatcher Incubator
Chick Chalet Brooders
Waterfowl - Care, Breeding & Conservation
( .... covers many topics including nutrition, nesting, incubation, rearing, ailments and remedies, ....)
Author: Simon Tarsnane. Soft cover, 277 pg., color photos. Book covers many topics including nutrition, nesting, incubation, rearing, ailments and remedies, predator control, and pinioning & sexing. Also specific breeds are talked about.
Brinsea Octagon 40 DX Digital w/Cradle
Covatutto Eco 24 Egg Incubator Semi-Auto Turn
Maino IMX004 - I40 Full
Wildfowl at Home
( ... guide to keeping and breeding ornamental waterfowl ...)
Author: Alan Birkbeck. Soft cover, 63 pg., color photos, b/w photos & illustrations. This is a good beginners guide to keeping and breeding ornamental waterfowl. Tells how to set up your first collection, pens, aviaries, pond construction, nesting, rearing and more. Specific descriptions of ducks & geese.
Octagon 20 ADVANCE EX digital egg incubator
Chick Chalet Brooders
Gamebird Incubators