Mark I agree with everything you just said. And I'm not saying ruddy ducks are the easiest things to raise, but there are a fare amount of people breeding them over here. Second my point wasn't to say he is one of the best or anything like that, I just wanted to know why Dr. Todd would say he is...
Why thank you destinduck, yea here in michigan we get a thing called snow that kills our grass in the fall....but my geese do fine until it comes back in the spring. I'll be sure to let you know if my cans start breeding on land lol.
I have offered to take some hybrid waterfowl, to keep them from getting destroyed, but while vent sexing them I found little white worms in them! What are they and how do I treat them, as they are not coming to my place with worms!!!
Another factor is space. A breeding pair of swans takes up a lot of pen space! So even when you get the breeding down it's not like you have room for tons of breeding swans anyway.
Dude it's not that hard. Most if not all might be sold out by now, the best time to find them is in early fall when people are selling young bird hatched from the year. Try GBWF.org and go to the forum, they might not have any right now, they usually sell pretty fast in the fall, but every once...