cayuga duck thread

[searlus]

That's good I don't feel good doing it either. I actually only tried once with my gosling and I swore I had a girl.  Ha gander is what he was.  He is going on 10 yr and never tried since. 

Well we ended up having 4 girls, 2 boys and one that couldn't really tell. We kept two females, one of triplets with the white wing tips and the baby brown one. Not sure how we got brown from black and white parents but ok lol. And in good news all the other 5 are sold and the last two are going home tomorrow.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well we ended up having 4 girls, 2 boys and one that couldn't really tell. We kept two females, one of triplets with the white wing tips and the baby brown one. Not sure how we got brown from black and white parents but ok lol. And in good news all the other 5 are sold and the last two are going home tomorrow.

Congrats on a nice mix of sexes, 4 girls wow that's awesome. Great they all have homes too. We actually need some updated pics now that they've been around awhile.

 

[searlus]

Congrats on a nice mix of sexes, 4 girls wow that's awesome.  Great they all have homes too.  We actually need some updated pics now that they've been around awhile. 

Here are the last ones we have left.

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[Miss Lydia]

Here are the last ones we have left.

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They are so precious.. Nice they have each other they will be close sibs for sure.

 

[RouenBud]

Cute

 

[Table4Six]

Are cayuga drakes known to be aggressive? Because my drake behaves very aggressively towards the other ducks most of the time. I think it may be a result of a ratio of more males than females, and I am getting an order of 16 females.

 

[harmesonfarm]

So excited, just placed my order in for a dozen hatching eggs for cayuga ducks! We'll be receiving them near the end of march

right near my birthday, haha happy birthday to me!

The ones that i'm getting lay a variety of darkish / light grey, green- grey, and grey-white. I have read that finding the black layers to be a very rare thing...is there a way to breed into that? Like chicken eggs in a way, you select a drake from the darkest egg and breed it with your duck who lays the darkest egg, etc. ? Anyone have success with this?

Either way, I love their eggs, and their such pretty birds!!

Can't wait to be watching the little ducklings grow

 

[Table4Six]

I'm receiving an order of 16 ducklings and their coming March 13, but it seems like its been a year already.

The order includes a female cayuga and extremely exited too!

 

[ARTic]

Dude! I'm in Idaho too. How cool is that.
How old are your Cayuga ducks?
Mine are 4 1/4 months.
I'm just trying to figure out when my girls may start laying.

my Cayuga's started laying at about 5 months here in New Zealand.

 

[ARTic]

Are cayuga drakes known to be aggressive? Because my drake behaves very aggressively towards the other ducks most of the time. I think it may be a result of a ratio of more males than females, and I am getting an order of 16 females. 

My drakes are aggressive!!!...they rape the chickens and rape there male of spring. I love them but they really do have some seriously ugly qualities!!!
I need more females for them!