I don't have house ducks but I do have Cayugas. None of them are the exact same size. Last years ducks range from about 6 lbs up to about 9 pounds. This years ducklings range from about 3 lbs up to about 6 lbs (Just eyeballing these girls. I haven't been weighing them).
Maybe one of the Etsy...
They're awesome pets and layers :). I have 3 hens now and I get between 3 and 6 eggs daily now. My girls are pets/ layers only.
I've never tried their meat. There's a pasture raised heritage breed farm in NY called Arcadian Pastures that raises Cayugas and they ship processed meat. I...
Yes it's true the eggs have a dark gray/black bloom on them. The first eggs are the darkest and it gets progressively lighter.
Here's an example of a first laid egg from my recently-started laying 10 month old hen.
The white scrape marks in the bloom are due to my having to use a garden...
Bo is gorgeous! He looks similar in size to my two largest females. I would so love to hatch ducklings from our girls but I want to go through a few winters before I commit to it.
I have four Cayugas that hatched in May 2015. They're all females. One of the ladies is the hop-on-top favorite...so much so that she had a few places on her neck and head that were missing a few feathers. Instead of the black/green sheen feathers those few places grew back with white...