Hi Poultry09 - That is exciting you are getting a dewlap toulouse from Holderreads! 
I have only seen the regular toulouse here at the fair, and they are usually pretty small and not high quality. You'll have to show us some pics when you get him. Also should be neat to visit their farm. I know they don't do farm tours of the actual duck areas, but I bet you can still kinda see what kinda setup they got goin on. Must be huge. I got from them a breeding pair of blue runners - they shipped them to me as adults in the fall/early winter. Supposedly when you cross them you get half blue, quarter silver or silver splash and quarter black offspring. I just hatched a few so I got just blue and silver splash. The splashed ones were actually almost white and turned out to be very beautiful. I also crossed my male with a 'production quality' fawn and white from Metzer's farm just for fun and got some strange colors from that. The offspring layed large white eggs instead of the cool green/blue ones of the Holderread ones. The drake that came out of it though was real pretty (see below in bottom image).
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offspring from blue x blue mating
~week old runner babies
The one in front here is a drake out of blue x fawn and white cross
Thoes guys look great! Ireally like that cross runner drake, he is cool looking!. Indian runners are my favorite breed of duck, they are so active and comical to watch.
Here is another update on Lilly and Daisy. Except I think Daisy may be a daffy, he is getting a raspy little quack but Lilly will blow you over when her quack comes in. LOL When theyre peeping the quacks just kinda come in the background. OH can anyone take a guess not that they are older on their Breed and ages?? The bottom of their bellys no longer have down its thick soft feather like things.
lilly and daisy(daffy) are looking great! I am not to sure what breed they are? your guess is as good as mine.
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I have been stalking this site for days. Getting ideas for our aviary. Wow you all have some amazing enclosures. We just recently finished ours. It was about a 5 day process. I am super thrilled with the great job my husband did for our babies. He put a lot of work into and made it look really really great! It has a tarp over the top with an old ball shoved between the board and tarp so any rain or snow will run right off. There is a doggie door already on the shed from when he used to have a duck that we are going to move their house inside in the winter. We will be working on a different house for everyone later on. This will give them plenty of shade through out the summer and we can worry about a better winter shelter this fall. We will be putting a pool in there after it gets warmer and they get a few more feathers.
I really like that design of coop/covered run!. If you dont mind me asking how much did it cost to build it? and how big is it? great job building it
also please post a couple pictures of the little duckies.
Pair of SQ silver phase Welsh Harlequins, Pair of SQ Saxony Runners, 6 Sebastopol geese & one Dewlap Toulouse Goose
Dont let them take our Guns!! Fight for whats right!
Pair of SQ silver phase Welsh Harlequins, Pair of SQ Saxony Runners, 6 Sebastopol geese & one Dewlap Toulouse Goose
Dont let them take our Guns!! Fight for whats right!
SO, for those of you that have Pekins, do they get along ok without a pond or would it be best to have one? And if so how big should it be? I'd love to see more pics of ponds that have been built/dug/made, however one would say it, lol.
