Ducks Take a Knock
T’S a very complex subject, egg production and marketing, but the Home Front Talk this week gave a lucid explanation which must have been the result of painstaking preparation. I was sad, though, to see ducks out of favour; I have always found them more grateful and friendly than hens, without that cantankerous cruelty to one another that makes the fowl-run a place of horror, It is too bad that while the blame for anything that is wrong with a hen’s egg may be affixed to anyone but the hen, ‘Nature occasionally plants one of her less kindly organisms in the newlaid duck-egg itself, thereby slightly alarming people and discrediting the duck. And so the ducks must not increase too wantonly or we’ll have a glut of duck eggs. "And we don’t want that, do we?" hinted the speaker, Well, I’m not so sure; some of us by now would rather like to see what a glut of any kind
of egg looks like. And how many dozen make a glut? The number that would strain our present marketing system, or the far greater number required to strain the digestive system of every citizen in the country? But as I said at the beginning, it’s a very complex subject.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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213Ducks Take a Knock New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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