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Swedish are a "fancy" dual purpose. The one's I've processed were very lean and tasty, and they still forage and lay a little better than most heavy breeds. A lot of people who keep backyard ducks really want "color" beyond your basic rouen or pekin and swedish fit into that niche. They are...

The mallard is incredibly beautiful... they're all nice ducks in their way. I love the navy blue speckle spots on the bibbed blue. It's not that I *mind* keeping them, but I picked up most of them as clearance hatchery choice peeps at the feed store for $2 and brooded them along with my harlies...

I'm thinking about putting together a starter flock on CL... I've had great luck with my straight runs and I have some colorful excess females. The group I'm looking at putting together are 2 blue Swedish girls (poorly marked, but pretty and good tempered), a mallard hen, and either a golden 300...