Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[peachncrm37]

But I'm also willing to buy eggs outright!! I don't mind the mixed colors either.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Here's a better picture....

Also, are you selling hatching eggs from your lavenders?

Hard to tell with the shadow across her, but this looks a lot like my silver hen.

 

[SilkieSensation]

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I hatched 3/5 of your eggs last week. 1 was a very early quitter & the other quit about 3 weeks in. Every baby is a different color & 2 have very nice tiny bills. The white's bill isn't bad, but is a bit bigger than the other 2.

 

[peachncrm37]

I hatched 3/5 of your eggs last week. 1 was a very early quitter & the other quit about 3 weeks in. Every baby is a different color & 2 have very nice tiny bills. The white's bill isn't bad, but is a bit bigger than the other 2.

Awe yay Im so glad!!! Sorry you lost the two I hate when that happens. Glad you got three nice ones...did you get any Greys? I've gotten a couple really nice Greys from my SQ pair....hopeful I might be able to show them next year.

 

[peachncrm37]

I also sold off my black hen and blue fawn male. I was waiting to get a couple good babies out of him. She was throwing babies with too long of bills so I sold her, the blue fawn male was a bit too big, but wonderful coloring. I've got a couple really tiny snowy hens that I added. One has a longer bill but I'm going to breed her back to my snowy male to see if I can get her size and his bill.

 

[animaladdictions]

Sorry ya'll! I'm in the midst of cooking dinner and trying to chat at the same time! Not workin out to well...lol. Yes Peaches...from Silkies description of her silver, it looks as though that's what your little hen is. She's really pretty and I love the mate to her as well. It's neat to see a solid grayish head like that. If I were you, I'd put that pair together and your pencilled trio together and then have the rest in your big community pen. That way you'll be able to sell both pure and mixed colors....that is of course IF your silvers are pure. You won't really know until you've separated them and see what colors they throw or ask the original breeder what they came out of.

Sadly, I worked for almost three years on developing my lavender bibbed Calls and in one night a darn coon broke into the coop and killed almost everything I had and injured what was still alive. I now have a single little hen and bless her heart, she only has one eye now. I will be buying a blue bibbed pair off of Matt in the Fall and use her with the pair in order to create more lavenders. Mine needed quite a lot of work as far as SQ goes, but it was still devastating to lose them. Hopefully this little hen can give me a fresh start to a new lavender project and luckily, by using Matts birds, I'll be able to start with good SQ/BQ characteristics this time.

Your pencilled birds are pretty nice and I would definitely advise separating them into a breeding trio. Pencilled calls are quite rare and I am working on my own line of Emery Pencilled and Blue Pencilled as well. I got my start from Jen Cadwell...she has really nice Calls too. Other than the Pencilled, I raise Buff, Khaki, and as a result of the Pencilled project, several babies hatch out Dusky or Blue Dusky. This fall I'll hopefully have solid black, chocolate, blue bibbed, and silver. I also have some really nice little grey hens that I use with my Khaki and Pencilled birds...I'm thinking of getting a drake for one of the hens so I can start on a grey line too. Not sure yet though...if I'm not careful, I'll run my hubby off with all these ducks! Keep in mind I raise geese and chickens too!

 

[peachncrm37]

Sorry ya'll! I'm in the midst of cooking dinner and trying to chat at the same time! Not workin out to well...lol. Yes Peaches...from Silkies description of her silver, it looks as though that's what your little hen is. She's really pretty and I love the mate to her as well. It's neat to see a solid grayish head like that. If I were you, I'd put that pair together and your pencilled trio together and then have the rest in your big community pen. That way you'll be able to sell both pure and mixed colors....that is of course IF your silvers are pure. You won't really know until you've separated them and see what colors they throw or ask the original breeder what they came out of.

Sadly, I worked for almost three years on developing my lavender bibbed Calls and in one night a darn coon broke into the coop and killed almost everything I had and injured what was still alive. I now have a single little hen and bless her heart, she only has one eye now. I will be buying a blue bibbed pair off of Matt in the Fall and use her with the pair in order to create more lavenders. Mine needed quite a lot of work as far as SQ goes, but it was still devastating to lose them. Hopefully this little hen can give me a fresh start to a new lavender project and luckily, by using Matts birds, I'll be able to start with good SQ/BQ characteristics this time.

Your pencilled birds are pretty nice and I would definitely advise separating them into a breeding trio. Pencilled calls are quite rare and I am working on my own line of Emery Pencilled and Blue Pencilled as well. I got my start from Jen Cadwell...she has really nice Calls too. Other than the Pencilled, I raise Buff, Khaki, and as a result of the Pencilled project, several babies hatch out Dusky or Blue Dusky. This fall I'll hopefully have solid black, chocolate, blue bibbed, and silver. I also have some really nice little grey hens that I use with my Khaki and Pencilled birds...I'm thinking of getting a drake for one of the hens so I can start on a grey line too. Not sure yet though...if I'm not careful, I'll run my hubby off with all these ducks! Keep in mind I raise geese and chickens too!

No problem!!! Thank you so much for your suggestions I really do appreciate them! I am very new to this but hoping to get some to show next year. My trio of blue pencilled came from Jen Cadwell as well!!!

I actually just emailed her to see if she had any khakis available. Would you mind if I PMed you the pictures to get your input on which hens I should purchase? The drake is very nice looking, but she has 4 hens and I'm having issues picking, haha.

 

[peachncrm37]

Also very sorry to hear about your lavenders. That is horrible. I had something similar happen to my first flock of Anconas.

 

[animaladdictions]

NO PROBLEM AT ALL! You sound just like me when I was picking mine out! They' all have different qualities and attributes and it's hard to pick! But I'd love to help if you want!

 

[SilkieSensation]

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It looks like I got a white or silver, a blue or blue bibbed & maybe a pastel. No greys. The little pastel is marked like a grey but is a light blue/grey color. Greys hatch out brown & black. I had a bunch of those last year when I had a white drake covering my grey hen.

The pastel of yours looks like 1 I just hatched from mine. I have 1 pastel hen & my drake is pastel, then the rest of the hens are grey, blue fawn, silver & tri-color.