82-Uncastw Farming, Saturday, Ftbruary 18, 1995
Where Ducks
Are Just Like Kids
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
EL VERSON (Chester Co.)
Duck fanners are a bit scarce. If
they are like Luke and Elmeta Hol
linger of Elverson, what they lack
in numbers they make up for in
enthusiasm.
“I love ducks—they’re just like
my kids,” said Luke who with his
wife raises 12,000 Peking ducks
with a new 3,000-head batch rotat
ing every two weeks.
For 30 years, the Hollingers had
raised 30,000 layer hens. When the
equipment and housing became
obsolete, and it became more and
more difficult to contract 30,000
layers, the couple decided against
expanding and updating .their facil
ities. About five years ago, they
quit the egg business.
Luke thought he’d concentrate
on his full-time cabinet job where
he’d been employed for years.
But he missed having something
to tend.
“I get very bored if there’s
nothing to do,” he said.
The Hollingers started checking
out options. The feed company
that had supplied their poultry
operation for years suggested they
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try raising geese.
The Hollingers did try it for a
season, but the geese market did
not pan out like expected.
Ducks were another alternative
for raising in the obsolete poultry
houses, but the Hollingers were
skeptical.
They didn’t want to rush into
anything, especially if the market
wasn’t there. But they found that
cities with a large ethnic Oriental
population provide a steady mark
et. They contracted with a Shart
les ville grower who delivers newly
hatched ducklings, picks up the
finished ducks every two weeks.
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are just like my children. I feel better when I'm sleeping at home with them. If I go away.
I always have the ducks in back of mind Just like they’re my kids. I keep calling home to
see how they’re doing.”.
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