For families cooped up at home, birds can be a low-maintenance pet, and farms across Canada have been busy supplying them
At top, Ben and Jerry waddle after their foster mother, Karen Johnson, shown with the rest of her family in the middle picture: Husband Matt and daughters Everleigh, Karly and Maddy. Three-year-old goldendoodle Stella is also learning to live alongside the birds.
It costs $140 to foster ducks under the program. Families receive a bag of food, a bag of shavings for the ducks to snuggle in and a manual outlining health and safety issues.potential health issues related to bringing home ducks or chicks, according to the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. “Poultry can carry diseases that are easily transmitted to humans.
“It just blew up around the end of March,” says Mr. Wickens. “A lot of people are getting chicks just to have something to do with the kids and teach them something while they’re out of school.”
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