The Ultimate Pet Duck Guidebook: All the things you need to know before and after bringing home your feathered friend. Paperback – June 27, 2014

I learned more from reading this book about ducks and have own 3 Pekin ducks for the last three years. She's very informative and goes into detail about every topic you could think of. I would recommend this to any duck lover, duck owner or to a avian vet.

A friend just adopted a rescue duck with little to no knowledge about care. This book is excellent regarding a pet duck. Food, housing, diet, health concerns etc all covered in this book. Highly recommend!!!

It is very clear Kimberly Link LOVES ducks, and her enthusiasm is contagious. Written by the president of a waterfowl rescue who writes extremely detailed descriptions of housing options, predator-proofing, and medical care--to make sure your pet duck has the best chance of living a very long, healthy, and happy life with you. She goes into more detail about ideal pet flock sizes (small!) than some other books, as well as habitat enrichment ideas, and she discusses indoor ducks.This book has THE BEST MEDICAL SECTION, with drug options and dosages, that I have seen (short of maybe a veterinary textbook). It alone makes this book worthwhile. This book has WAY BETTER INFORMATION THAN YOU WILL FIND ON THE INTERNET, INCLUDING VERY POPULAR FORUMS. Save yourself lots of time wading through bad advice online and buy Kimberly Link's book. It walked me step-by-step through wet feather, bumble foot, broken blood feathers, and angel wing diagnosis and treatment (which I needed within the first several months of owning ducks!). Bring it with you when consulting with your vet, in case they don't see ducks every day.The drawback to Kimberly Links method of duck care is that, of course, it comes at greater financial cost than you might expect for a small farm animal. Building a large predator-proof enclosure is EXPENSIVE and time-consuming. At the sign of any problem, she, rightly, suggests a veterinary appointment.I *might* have had trouble with angel wing after following her suggestion of feeding the highest quality Mazuri pellets free choice to my ducklings . . . maybe I misunderstood, or maybe it was something else entirely. Either way, for my second batch of ducklings I leaned towards Holderread's suggestions of blending in more oats and limiting feed a little earlier. My second batch of ducklings grew slower and had fewer little health problems. Is it possible that since she deals mostly in rescued waterfowl that have been starved, she has a little blind spot that allows them to become slightly overfed?If you want a book about breeding, culling, showing, and cooking livestock ducks--look elsewhere.

This is one of the best books and very helpful for ducks! Great beginner book!

Well written book with a lot of good info, but would have liked more practical info for a beginner including duck houses, winter strategies, ideas for water in the winter, optimal layer boxes or in duck houses, if let out to graze will ducks go back in their pen easily? For instance, I have 300 Golden Layers, it's winter and they're not laying, is there anything I can do to promote laying? I discovered that the drake is monogamous. So only one in four eggs will be fertilized. This is the kind of info that would have been very helpful at the start. A large portion of the book is dedicated to pathologies.

I am a new duck owner and I got several books and a magazine to learn about them. I’ve learned from all of them but this one has been the most detailed and helpful to me. Written in a humorous and easy to understand way, the author even made it easy enough for people with no medical background to understand and have available a guidebook generally covering a ducks health and anatomy. One thing though was that the back of the book boasts full color photos and that would have made a big difference but they are black and white. Awesome book though 😁

There are many "ultimate" books out there about every topic you can think of, and they're nowhere near "ultimate." This one lives up to its title. If you're an owner of companion ducks, or are thinking of being one, and buy only one book, buy this one.I own just about every duck book worth owning, and some that aren't. I breed Call ducks, so I like to have a variety of good references. This book and Dave Holderread's Storey's Guide are the ones I go to most often. While I consider the Storey's Guide indispensable, it contains a lot of information a casual owner probably doesn't need, e.g., genetics, butchering, and duck recipes. (I've never read the butchering and recipe chapters.)Kim's guide is more narrative and is easy for anyone to understand. There is information on nutrition, environment, interaction, accommodations, predation, anatomy, illness, and so much more. I actually read books like this cover-to-cover, and it wasn't at all hard to do it with this one even though it's a very large book. It really is that interesting and that easily readable.I'd very much like to see this book in an electronic version so I can have it with me wherever I am. I like to keep all my "must haves" on my phone and tablets, and this one is a definite must have for me!

Wish I had bought this book at the beginning of my pet duck keeping journey! Everything I have previously worried and fretted about is covered in this heartwarming and completely honest guidebook. Realised from all my internet searching for help and advice, that Kimberly Link's Majestic Waterfowl Sanctuary was my 'go to' so made absolute sense to have her extensive reference book physically in my hands.Initially, I had searched for UK based advice, thinking the availability of appropriate feeds and medicines to be widely different, they aren't - only in brand names. Kim has even included a section on UK based brand feed options. Ducks in the USA have exactly the same needs in care as ducks here, the main difference being the predators! I absolutely love KIm's illustrations and friendly manner in which she gives her invaluable advice. If you are thinking of keeping ducks or already have ducks as pets this book is indispensable.