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This is the reason I picked Magpie Ducks. Very rare & hard to find. Even harder to find one with a good pattern. But when you get a good one, they are stunning!
Here is our top Drake Louie, has won tons at the the shows including the Ohio National, and better yet he is a Blue Magpie!
ERIN!!!! What can I say! I never did the swap thing before, HAD A BLAST!!!! With my other half's other half (Kay) in tow & my chick box boy (Brody) it was awesome. Our neighbors (really our neighbors) Anne & Bob, we laughed & chatted all day! Met so many new folks, talked chicken & sold 89...
Ok so finally got some pics of some of the birds I'll have at the swap. Head cold, single handedly running the entire farm, now falling & pulling/tearing a leg muscle......what a week! But here are a few of the birds coming with me:
Magpie Duck Pair-Blue Duck, Black Drake $40.00 for the pair...
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Will have a pair of Magpie ducks. Blue young Hen & Black young Drake! That is if I can get Brody's hands off of them. lol
PS They are a mated pair & the hen is laying like crazy!
NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!
Brody's Broodello is coming to the swap!!!!!!
Will hopefully have an updated list of birds that will be in tow! But in the mean time:
Started Ameraucana chicks in diluted Silver (thanks Lavender gene) lay BRIGHT blue eggs. No olive drab here.
Silkies tons of Silkies...
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Bad news. I am not having great luck with the eggs I have been setting the past few weeks. Either it's my incubation skills, or fertility stinks. I figure it's about a 50-50 chance of either scenario being plausable... Anyway, if it is fertility, maybe it will get better. And if...