California - Northern

[fowlman01]

"I have hear the small billed ones cant hatch naturally and need to be helped out. I have been scard to hatch eggs. They do seem like funny little things like sleek ponies".

You been reading too many BYC threads. I don't help out any bird that can't get out of a shell....no one I know personally does. They are the funnest birds you will ever own.

Walt

 

[chiqita]

"I have hear the small billed ones cant hatch naturally and need to be helped out. I have been scard to hatch eggs. They do seem like funny little things like sleek ponies".

You been reading too many BYC threads. I don't help out any bird that can't get out of a shell....no one I know personally does. They are the funnest birds you will ever own.

Walt

Roger roger!
I did wonder about that when I saw you raised them last year. I could not imagine you assisting hatching 500 ducks.

 

[casportpony]

I doubt I could tell the difference between the two, but he bought them at a poultry show and claims they're "show quality", but who knows, lol. They are really cute!


-Kathy

If you were around a show quality Call you would know the difference right away. Not only size, but personality. I would doubt that a feed store can can reproduce an exhibition Call. I have trouble with that and I have had them for 50 years. Every bird is cute when it is young, but the test is if they are cute as adults.  lol   Exhibition Calls are extremely cute as adults.

Walt

Not sure they would show any personality given their current living conditions. FWIW, I'm pretty sure he bought them from someone at the Hollister poultry show last year. He bought two breeding trios and since then has produced maybe a dozen?

-Kathy

 

[fowlman01]

Roger roger!
I did wonder about that when I saw you raised them last year. I could not imagine you assisting hatching 500 ducks.

Many years ago I helped babies out of the shell, but then found I wasn't doing anyone a favor by doing that. Some times they are fine, but many times they are not. All of this hard line raising has paid off for me. I don't have problems with my birds because of it. If I sell a bird to someone, I never worry about it getting sick.....the only way it is going to die is if you shoot it or a predator gets it. It really makes life a lot easier and the birds appreciate it too....I think.

w.

 

[chrissyr]

Good Call ducks are extremely difficult to reproduce.....big Call ducks with long bills are pretty easy to reproduce. For some reason the hatchery type Calls don't have the same personality of the exhibition Calls either and the personality of the Calls is what people love.




Walt

All of your stock is quite amazing, Walt. Everything is beautiful!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: X2, adorable!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Survival of the fittest, some peafowl breeders are the same way.

-Kathy

 

[AmyPaperlady]

*closes eyes, covers ears*

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

But they are so. Stinkin'. CUTE.

 

[casportpony]

*closes eyes, covers ears*

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

Calls are too loud for where I live.

But they are so. Stinkin'. CUTE.

Muscovies are quiet, but they aren't cute, lol.

-Kathy

 

[fowlman01]

Thanks ladies.....Call ducks may be louder than a roosters crow...I'm pretty sure they are......and it is the females in this case. Driving to a show in the middle of the night and having the Calls all of a sudden go off is quite thrilling if you don't expect it. Yup, it is survival of the fittest here. It was very difficult in the beginning, but well worth it after a bit. Birds pretty much die of old age here. I have a white Call duck that is 16 years old and some China geese that are over 20 years old and still producing.

Walt