Chicken varieties ok together?

[Krazyquilts]

Just a warning...some people consider chickens a gateway to other types of poultry addition. Ducks may be in your DH's future yet!

Ducks were my "gateway drug!" (Though honestly, if I could only raise one species, it would still be ducks. Thank goodness our new farm has 50 acres so I don't have to limit myself!)

OfChickens, you should get ducks too for your husband! Duck eggs are amazing! They make the best baked goods and my husband won't eat hard boiled chicken eggs any more because duck eggs are so much creamier!

Plus, just look at this face!!!!

And these faces!

And nothing is cuter than baby ducks - nothing!

 

[N F C]

@Krazyquilts love the photos...especially the mud ducky

 

[rjohns39]

Sadly, they grow up too fast... These guys moved to pasture yesterday for their look don't touch start.

 

[rjohns39]

@Krazyquilts love the photos...especially the mud ducky

X2

 

[N F C]

Sadly, they grow up too fast... These guys moved to pasture yesterday for their look don't touch start.
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Cute! And so many...how many ducks do you have there?

 

[rjohns39]

Cute! And so many...how many ducks do you have there?

Haven't counted in a while... 40-50 I think? I'll count them again when they move into winter housing.

 

[OFChickens]

Ducks were my "gateway drug!" (Though honestly, if I could only raise one species, it would still be ducks. Thank goodness our new farm has 50 acres so I don't have to limit myself!)

OfChickens, you should get ducks too for your husband! Duck eggs are amazing! They make the best baked goods and my husband won't eat hard boiled chicken eggs any more because duck eggs are so much creamier!

Plus, just look at this face!!!!

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And these faces!

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And nothing is cuter than baby ducks - nothing!

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OH MY GOSH they are adorable! Is the black baby chick a cayuga? We started out thinking of going with ducks, and thought we'd go with Welsh Harlequins and Silver Appleyards. We then thought chickens might be easier for our little ones to hold and be more mellow. I guess I'm not certain if that's really true. Yep, might have to have both eventually!!

 

[Krazyquilts]

OH MY GOSH they are adorable! Is the black baby chick a cayuga? We started out thinking of going with ducks, and thought we'd go with Welsh Harlequins and Silver Appleyards. We then thought chickens might be easier for our little ones to hold and be more mellow. I guess I'm not certain if that's really true. Yep, might have to have both eventually!!

Yep, the baby duck (called a duckling btw) is a Cayuga. Two of my ducks went broody at the same time, a third liked to pretend to be broody and sit on a nest with them, and the fourth was raising babies she'd hatched out: long story short, no body was laying so I had none of their own eggs (fertilized enthusiastically by Handsome Henry) to give them so I ordered Holderread-bloodline Cayuga eggs on EBay for them. When the hatching date was just a day or two away, I started picking up the eggs and talking to them and once the babies pipped (broke through the shell a bit), they would peep back to me! Such an unbelievable experience.

Here's a pic of newly hatched duckling snuggling inside my shirt.

 

[OFChickens]

Very sweet picture and heart melting experience!