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For anyone who is looking for an egg laying duck breed I thought I'd share some info on my egg laying machine...
Breed: White Cambell
Age: 8 months
Age we got her: 3 weeks
Location: North England (cold)
Conditions: Freeranges in 230 square meters of back garden
Home: Chicken coup outside with 3 chickens, plus she's house trained and comes inside on an evening to watch TV with us.
Food: Handfull of decent dried dog food and water in the morning and evening, plus whatever critters, grass and my plants she eats during the day
Treats: Dry and live mealworms and tomatos
Egg Size: large, avg 80g
Training: She knows about 10 commands rangining from "In your basket" to "Play Time", learns new command very easily.
Friendlyness: She's very friendly and constantly walks over and demands to be stroked or chased. She does startle easily...she hates sweeping brushes, she thinks they're going to kill her. No idea where this scared reaction has come from.
Water source: Pond. She ignores the fish and is not a massive fan of swimming. She normally goes belly deep so she can still walk on the bottom. I did have pond plants until we got a duck...she's a greedy duck.
She started laying at the start of September and has only missed 3 days where she hasn't laid, 172 eggs in 175 days. UPDATED 28th April 2010: 232 eggs in 235 days!
The month of -5 to -10 and below and loads of snow didn't affect her laying....in fact she loved the snow and nibbled my feet until i pushed her through the deep snow like she was a sledge.
It's now spring, when ducks lay normally. Can I expect this kind of egg laying all year since she kept it up during the harshest of conditions?
So many web posts on the web say campbells get roughly 200 / yr. At this rate my little duck is going to produce 350+. Has anyone elses campbell laid this many?
On the 3 occasions she has missed a day laying the egg she lays the following day is a MONSTER!
Woka
Breed: White Cambell
Age: 8 months
Age we got her: 3 weeks
Location: North England (cold)
Conditions: Freeranges in 230 square meters of back garden
Home: Chicken coup outside with 3 chickens, plus she's house trained and comes inside on an evening to watch TV with us.
Food: Handfull of decent dried dog food and water in the morning and evening, plus whatever critters, grass and my plants she eats during the day
Treats: Dry and live mealworms and tomatos
Egg Size: large, avg 80g
Training: She knows about 10 commands rangining from "In your basket" to "Play Time", learns new command very easily.
Friendlyness: She's very friendly and constantly walks over and demands to be stroked or chased. She does startle easily...she hates sweeping brushes, she thinks they're going to kill her. No idea where this scared reaction has come from.
Water source: Pond. She ignores the fish and is not a massive fan of swimming. She normally goes belly deep so she can still walk on the bottom. I did have pond plants until we got a duck...she's a greedy duck.
She started laying at the start of September and has only missed 3 days where she hasn't laid, 172 eggs in 175 days. UPDATED 28th April 2010: 232 eggs in 235 days!
The month of -5 to -10 and below and loads of snow didn't affect her laying....in fact she loved the snow and nibbled my feet until i pushed her through the deep snow like she was a sledge.
It's now spring, when ducks lay normally. Can I expect this kind of egg laying all year since she kept it up during the harshest of conditions?
So many web posts on the web say campbells get roughly 200 / yr. At this rate my little duck is going to produce 350+. Has anyone elses campbell laid this many?
On the 3 occasions she has missed a day laying the egg she lays the following day is a MONSTER!
Woka
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