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[easttxchick]

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Kinda depends on what color you are looking for. Any idea yet?

 

[purplefrog]

White, Blue Mallards or the Magpies.

 

[easttxchick]

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I have some really beautiful Whites as do a lot of folks that raise White Calls(duckluck-BYC name, Art Lundgren, Lee Morey).

Mrs. Turbo's(her BYC name) son raises the magpies, I believe and possibly Faith Valley Waterfowl.
Now the blue mallards, I'm not sure. I've heard of Blue Fawn, Blue Bibbed and Self-Blue, but not the Blue Mallards-now you've got me curious?????

 

[purplefrog]

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I have some really beautiful Whites as do a lot of folks that raise White Calls(duckluck-BYC name, Art Lundgren, Lee Morey).

Mrs. Turbo's(her BYC name) son raises the magpies, I believe and possibly Faith Valley Waterfowl.
Now the blue mallards, I'm not sure. I've heard of Blue Fawn, Blue Bibbed and Self-Blue, but not the Blue Mallards-now you've got me curious?????

Do you ever sell any eggs from your whites? I saw a pic of a blue mallard ( I think) on a call duck color site.

 

[purplefrog]

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I have some really beautiful Whites as do a lot of folks that raise White Calls(duckluck-BYC name, Art Lundgren, Lee Morey).

Mrs. Turbo's(her BYC name) son raises the magpies, I believe and possibly Faith Valley Waterfowl.
Now the blue mallards, I'm not sure. I've heard of Blue Fawn, Blue Bibbed and Self-Blue, but not the Blue Mallards-now you've got me curious?????

Do you ever sell any eggs from your whites? I saw a pic of a blue mallard ( I think) on a call duck color site.

They are called Blue Fawn or Blue Mallard... very pretty

 

[easttxchick]

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Do you ever sell any eggs from your whites? I saw a pic of a blue mallard ( I think) on a call duck color site.

They are called Blue Fawn or Blue Mallard... very pretty

Check with duckluck on the Blue Fawns-I THINK she has some.
Check out her site.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

There is a list of some breeders at the National Call Breeders of America website: http://www.callducks.org

 

[Robert Blosl]

I dont know if you ever tried to hatch call duck eggs at all let alone eggs shipped by mail. Hatching eggs are very hard to hatch by mail in my view.

You would be better off getting five to six week old baby calls shipped to you. Again the big problem is not many good breeders ship call duck eggs or baby ducks.


There is one lady in the mid west who ships eggs in the spring I will try to get her name for you. I think its Patty. P. bob

 

[easttxchick]

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Her name is Patty Pickard and I have received and hatched eggs from her. She and her family own/operate Faith Valley Waterfowl-she is VERY reputable.
Many breeders simply won't sell eggs due to the,"What might have been" factor. As a matter of fact, one of the premiere Call breeders in the country told me this himself recently.
Everything I have read/heard is that ducks should only be shipped as day olds or adults-not so much in between.
I am very honest with my customers and tell them that Calls are difficult to hatch under the best circumstances-which is an absolute fact.
Had it not been for Patty's willingness to send me those eggs, I would not currently have my beautiful Gray drake. Totally worth it to me.
Shipped eggs of ANY kind are a crap shoot. I'd much rather risk losing eggs than lives that are shipped under less than ideal conditions.
My two cents...

 

[duckluck]

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Actually, I know of several people in the midwest who ship eggs, Robert, of which I am one. I don't personally know anyone who ships Call babies at this time. Call eggs can be hard to hatch in general but I have had luck hatching some that I have had shipped in from an outside line to complement my flock. Hatching shipped eggs can often be a good way for a person to get outside lines in from a far distance and have a good chance of getting show quality babies, because no one can know what quality of duck will hatch out of any given egg until it hatches and few, if any, breeders will sell their best ducks once they know what they have. If a person wants an even chance with a breeder of getting high quality babies, then shipped eggs is about the only way to go unless they can pick them up, and then they can ensure their safe handling without a shipper middle man, which I have also done.

Just as an aside, it was sort of nice karma to have those babies from those shipped eggs at the Portage show...while they were not the ducks that took the Oakford award for me at Portage, WI, this year (it was one of my own homebred babies) I did have them to talk about a bit because they are from Oakford's line that still exists here in Illinois, and I mentioned that I was grateful to Mr. Oakford for his work with Calls and Butterscotches in particular when I accepted the award at the ceremony. I don't know how many other people have Calls from this original line that haven't been crossed out to other lines, I don't know of anyone who could know that, but I think it was really neat that I had some of those ducks there at the show for people to be able to see the living legacy of the man the trophy was dedicated for. Shipped eggs made that possible for me to do, and I have retained both of these pullets for my breeding pens this year.