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Can someone please advise on a good, one-stop-shop book as an introduction to the care of ducks please?

[Kate and her Ducks]

Katie Thear's "Starting with ducks" is a good starter book but quite basic. If you are going for one book it has to be "The Storey Guide to Raising Ducks" by Dave Holderread. It is my bible and in my opinion, the best book on ducks there is (and I seem to have most of them).

My copy is completely battered from being read and re-read. It is straightforward for the beginner so you can pick the bits you need and come back to it when you need more indepth info. For instance I always just skipped over the genetics bits until I wanted to know how I had got the colourings I had from my ducklings. 

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That's so weird, they are exactly the two books that I've ordered on Amazon anyway!!!