I've never actually seen one in person before! A lady who brought ducklings off us breeds them and we are due for some new chooks (our girls are getting old) so she has offered us some eggs. She is trying out a new young rooster so once we know they're fertile I'll be popping them in the bator. So excited!!!
I've read they are extremely poor layers. Do you find this?
I find them ok layers. Small sized eggs but not too bad. I lost my first pekin recently she was 9 years old and still laying. Mine lay just about every day only missing the occassional day here and there but the 3 i have now are quite young only been laying a few months. My black rooster and hen are from show winning lines and my buff is just a standard backyard layer but i don't find much difference in the amount either lay. I can't wait too see pics of your babies when they hatch. I have a few eggs in the bator now due to hatch in a weeks and a half or so. My first hatch was only a couple of eggs from these ones and they were both roosters.