Cayuga/Appleyard Cross

[Jpat]

i like mixed ducks

 

[Letticethemagpieduck]

i like mixed ducks

Me too

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Mixed Ducks are usually healthier than show-quality birds. Similar with dogs and cats…

 

[Letticethemagpieduck]

Mixed Ducks are usually healthier than show-quality birds. Similar with dogs and cats…

Exactly, these guys are just going to be for roaming around my garden, not showing.

 

[Cayuga momma]

I just got cayugas 2 weeks ago can you show me what yours looked like when they were a baby?

Here is my most recent cayuga.

These are my first 2 Cayugas when they were little

 

[Cayuga momma]

Ah ok, so that means that all my bibbed ones are mixed?? I have some which are a light brown colour rather than black

Yes the bibbed ones are usually a mixed, although I have seen some cayuga ducklings with a little bit of bibbing that turned completely black once their feathers came in.

 

[Jpat]

Here is my most recent cayuga.

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These are my first 2 Cayugas when they were little
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[Somebunnieslove]

just hatched some ducklings, some are pure Cayuga some are cross Appleyard. Does anyone have any Cayuga/Appleyard cross adult ducks? Would love to know what they shall look like!
Thanks
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[Somebunnieslove]

just hatched some ducklings, some are pure Cayuga some are cross Appleyard. Does anyone have any Cayuga/Appleyard cross adult ducks? Would love to know what they shall look like!
Thanks
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So I assume you now know what they look like full grown. Any photos? I bought what I thought was a pure Cayuga (but I think it was a Cayuga/Appleyard cross. All first generations were mostly all black a couple had that somwhat yellow patch like yours (I probably should have known something was up then). Then in my second generation I got this handsome fellow. He was born yellow.

 

[Sierra67]

Yes the bibbed ones are usually a mixed, although I have seen some cayuga ducklings with a little bit of bibbing that turned completely black once their feathers came in.

I hatched a bunch of cayugas (I’ve had 11 ducklings) that were all bibbed but ended up entirely black cayuga colours could mine all be crossed with something else as well??? The first couple I bought as “Cayuga” and then some of them were hatched by me from my “Cayuga” pair but they all had some form of bibbing to them