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It's been an interesting spring with my Spots. I lost half of the breeding flock to a fox one weekend (first time in 20 years of poultry that a fox has showed up) and the incubator thermostat went bad on the first batch of eggs....I now have Spots hens that are broody and the latest batch in the...

Hi all-- I have Spots from Holderread's (we're several generations out from the original stock). I'd kept back 18 breeders this past year (6 drakes/12 ducks) and had them free ranging this spring. Sadly, a fox found them and I lost all but 9 (2 drakes, 7 ducks). I have eggs in the incubator...

In my experience with the silverheads the ducks have always had the white background color with faint light markings on the feathers. If you look at a duck from each color (greenhead, bluehead, silverhead) side by side, you can see the dilution gene at work--greenheads definitely have the most...

Hi Duck Drover-- My success with incubating duck eggs is pretty low--do you have anything special that you do? BTW, your descriptions of your Spots and their behavior is exactly like mine. Great little ducks! Hope your surgery goes well!

You might want to try letting them out during the day when you're home--then offer them grain in their night pen so they come back in and you can close them up. Mine are pretty good about coming back into the pen at night as long as I feed them there. They're fun little ducks to work with...

Sorry to hear you've been dealing with owls. Around here it's raccoons by night and Cooper's hawks by day, so I keep mine in a covered run pretty much 24/7. My original stock is also from Holderreads, though I'm several generations down the line from them. In my experience the hens will go...

We've had Spots now for almost a decade--they started as my daughter's 4-H ducks, and we've kept them going ever since. Personally, I do think they have a number of utilitarian qualities despite being classed as a bantam duck. We have found them to be good egg layers during spring and summer...