I tried typing in those links before and the the one after the link to the phtos but I tried and couldn't get it to work!

Genny, thanks for the pics of your "family"....I have four ducks now. A crested Saxony, a Cuyuga, a Rouen and a Swedish Blue.....an owl got my two little hens (a Rouen and a Cuyuga). Just love them. What characters!

Your pic links worked beautifully for me.

Judy

Judy, Thanks! I bet your ducks are beautuful! I'm so sorry about your 2 hens. They are just ducks to some people; but, to others they are special little friends! I really love my ducks!

JudyAG44, I have never heard of those kinds of ducks before that you have. I would love to see pictures of them if thats possible!?

Hello, I see you are sharing duck photo's. So I decided to show off my ladies. These Khaki Campbells are part of a CSA Co-op I have with my neighbors. Campbells lay about 300 eggs, per duck, per year. We should have eggs in a week or so.
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The drakes wanted their picture taken to. Here is one of three drakes we have. Two of the drakes are constantly fighting. We may have to form two flocks.
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Erin, your ducks are pretty. I've never heard of that kind either! They kind of favor Mallards don't they
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gennyn,
Here is some information on Campbells I found on the net.
The Khaki Campbell was developed in England during the early 1900's by Adele Campbell. It was admitted to the American Standard in 1941. Though originally a cross of Indian Runner, Mallard, and Rouen, Campbells exceed all of these and most chicken breeds in egg production, with some strains averaging 300 eggs per year. They do not require special care or artificial lighting to produce a large number of eggs, which are white and weight about 2.5 ounces (not much larger than a Leghorn egg). Thought not usually raised for meat, Khakis make high quality, lean roasters of 3-4 pounds; they average 4-5 pounds as adults. Campbells are extremely hardy, are excellent foragers, and are at home on land as well as in water. They eat large quantities of slugs, snails, insects, algae, and mosquitos from ponds, but do not require swimming water to stay healthy. The ducks are mainly khaki colored and the drakes have greenish-bronze heads with brown-bronze tails, backs, and necks. They have green bills.
Status: Minor. Though still not common, the Khaki Campbell is thought to be growing in popularity as an egg-layer and backyard duck. Exhibition Khakis do not have the same characteristics as production types.

Reference:

The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, Box 477, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312

Eric

They sound so neat! I have 1 mallard and 6 muscovies. They all get along together. One of my muscovies was born deformed and her left leg curls up and she can't stand on it at all. She has a little trouble getting around on it but other than that she is fine! It was great to see pics of your ducks though! Anybody else feel free to post pics of your ducks too! It's fun to see all the different kinds people have!!

So, what do you do with ducks? Are the eggs like chicken eggs? Do you eat them (the ducks)? Do you need a pond? Do they stay home or do they ever fly away?

I have my ducks as pets. I spend time with them everyday and go out and feed them. They stay out in my front yard. My front yard is pretty big so they have plenty of area to run around in and catch bugs. I use to only have 2 female muscovies until just last year. All the eggs wouldn't have hatched so we just threw them away. Now, since we have boy ducks here I'm sure thay'll be having babies. They can have 25-30 babies every time that lay eggs and theres no way I can take care of that many so I'll probably let their babies get big enough and then let them go. There is a little pond near where we live that some ducks already live at.
They do stay at home. Muscovies aren't known to fly away and leave their home. They normally stick around where they live. I use to clip mines wings but I haven't in awhile so they have all grown back out. My females don't fly at all; but, that males have tried to fly and actually have been lately flying around the yard, not away from it.But, the main reason I have ducks is because I really love and enjoy them!

kcchiefsfan,
My Khaki Campbells are part of a CSA (community-supported agriculture) We are a group of five families that share in the expenses and chores.
Campbells out produce most chickens. Campbells lay an average of 300+ eggs per duck, per year. With our 13 females and 3 drakes we will share a lot of eggs. Our first egg was laid today.{{gwi:35158}} A duck egg is about the size of AA grade chicken. Flavor is richer. Yoke is darker. Sense we have drakes, our eggs are fertile.
Campbells don't require a pond, but they need fresh drinking water. I have several little ponds in my orchard. So I just fenced one in for the ducks.
I've never had to clip the wings. Most domestic ducks are to fat to fly. Every once in a while a duck will fly over the three foot fence.
Eric

What time of year do ducks start having babies Is it in the summer??

gennym,
Our ducks are laying eggs right now. Well we've had two know. Khaki Campbells take 17 to 21 weeks before they lay their first egg. Our ducklings arrived from Murray McMurray on August 23rd, two days old. First egg showed Wednesday January 11th. Ducks require about 14 hours of light per day for full egg production. In the winter, short day light hours, you can give them artifical light. So to answer your question they can have babies anytime of the year.

Eric

Whew!! I have been having a time getting on to this site...was about to give up.

Anyway, GennyM, I was just sick when my little girls were lost to the owl! The ducks are really special on our farm....they are such characters.

gennym, I don't have pictures that I can post but will put some links:

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/rouenpage.html - Rouens

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/cayuga.html - Cuyuga

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/swedish.html - Blue Swedish

And my fourth drake is a mix between these two breeds...He is the color of the Saxony but with the crest (Poof on his head....looks like a beret!). His name is "TopKnot"! 8)

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/product/white_crested__1.html

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/Sax/BRKSax.html

Hope this gives you an idea of what my "goof troop" looks like!

JudyAG_44

judyag_44,

I just wanted to let you know that your first three links didn't work for me,but the last two did. Sorry about your loses. Foxes and raccoons got my first flock. I've learned a few things sense then.

Eric

I couldn't see the first 3 either, only the last ones. Again, sorry about your 2 ducks :( We have coyotes around here who have in the last 2 years killed 15 of my neighbors goats! It's really upset me though because I love them and use to go and feed them and spend a lot of time with them. The main thing that messes around my house is opossums trying to get the ducks eggs.

Eric & genn, I believe that the problem that you encountered with the first three links was the way I listed them......the final hyphen and breed name are not part of the links.

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/rouenpage.html

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/cayuga.html

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/swedish.html

Sorry about that.....did not mean to confuse the issue.

Tonight my husband called me to the door to hear a whole chorus of coyotes singing.....pretty surreal! They have never come up to the house but were closer tonight than usual. We have our two Great Pyrenees tied up until we can get them trained to a "radio fence"....it is in place but my hubby and I are suffering from a flu and cannot get the necessary training done so we can turn them loose. We enclosed somewhere around 15 acres in the fence.

We had to tie the dogs up for the hunting season as someone stole or killed our young Border Collie last year at hunting season. Then, this year someone shot a neighbor's dog. The strange guy came roaring over to our house accusing us of shooting his dog.....go figure! He said he heard the shots and that they came from our "direction"......bad scene. I told him that it would make no sense for us to shoot another's dog. We have too much too lose!! He has a tall chain link enclosure around his house and has six dogs in it. Two of them get out on a fairly regular basis and I have called to tell them several times when I have seen the dogs running or have caught them and kept them for his wife to retrieve.

Anyway, now I am not only worried about the hunters but, also, about our crazy neighbor. Sometimes I wish that I could ONLY deal with the animals....they make so much better sense!

The night that the little cuyuga hen was killed the Pyrs were going crazy in the yard. Just a whirling dervish of white flying fur when I opened the door. The ducks were fluttering and squawking loudly, too. When I turned on the flood light I saw her little body....she had a deep hole in her where the owl had hit her. I picked up her little body and put it into our garage and then heard a LOUD "whooo whooo who whoooooooooo" from the direction of a big stand of old hickory trees close by the house. I grabbed our
rifle and fired some shots in that direction....haven't heard him that close since. He had to be pretty disgusted that he had lost his meal and the dogs surely got pretty close to have caused it!!

We got the Pyrs to protect our menagerie and they do a great job....am feeling very unhappy with the present situation. We are penning the ducks and chickens securely each night. The guineas refuse to go in....except for a couple here and there on the very coldest nights. They roost in one or two of the large cedar trees around the yard. The guineas have made a huge dent in our tick population.

Just hate losing ANY of the animals....as I know you all do. We regard them as family members and all are important.

Take care to you all and I wish you all the best with your babies!

Judy

Wow, your ducks are beautiful!

Cool duck photos, thanks! :)

Velvet ~:>