What's better: Ducks or chickens? (for meat and eggs) - CHICKENS VS DUCKS

What is better, raising ducks or raising chickens, is becoming a far more frequently asked question. Backyard chicken keeping has been popular for many years as more folks became engaged in homesteading in small urban and suburban settings, as well as the more traditional larger scale rural setting. Duck keeping is garnering increased attention because the common myth that you need a pond to keep ducks has been busted.

In this poultry tutorial, we will look at the advantages and disadvantages of raising chickens as well as pros and cons of raising ducks in your backyard or at your homestead or at your farm.

The video will compare ducks and chickens on things like noise, meat production, egg production, disease resistance, natural pest control, water usage (how much water chickens drink per day and how much much water ducks consume per day), economic efficiency in the form of feeding and production costs and much more.

At the end of the video we will look at the possibility of raising both chickens and ducks in the same coop, whether it's possible or not, which ducks breeds can live together with chickens and which ducks should not be made to share a room with chickens.