Duck Breed Focus - Call Ducks

[SmallFarmUSA]

These are some of my white and snowy calls:

And I finally also found an egg comparison picture I'd taken: TL=duck egg, TM= chicken egg, TR= store bought chicken egg. BL= double-yolk duck egg, BM= double-yolk chicken egg, BR= Call duck egg.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

These are some of my white and snowy calls:

And I finally also found an egg comparison picture I'd taken: TL=duck egg, TM= chicken egg, TR= store bought chicken egg. BL= double-yolk duck egg, BM= double-yolk chicken egg, BR= Call duck egg.

That's neat, so similar to a chicken egg but slimmer
Pretty ducks, I have 3 snowy boys

 

[LittleLakePhil]

That's neat, so similar to a chicken egg but slimmer
Pretty ducks, I have 3 snowy boys

I look at all these cute little ducks and it makes me sad that my hatch went so badly

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I look at all these cute little ducks and it makes me sad that my hatch went so badly

next time!!!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

 next time!!! 

, yeah I'm going to try a couple easy hatches first and then I'm going back for it

 

[PINOAK RIDGE]

Call duck lovers live here.

We have loved, bred and raised call ducks in several varieties for almost 30 years.


What made you decide to get this breed? Their amazing personalities. Plus, due to their small size, one can have many of them. They come in a rainbow of colors. Each color seems to make their fellow varieties pop in color. Love when in the "off season" we have the different color varieties together in paddocks and aviaries. One sees a new color and we just have to have some of them as well. Call ducks are worse than potato chips---can't have just one color.

Do you own them for fun? Breeding? Some other purpose? For fun, first and foremost, but we do breed to the SOP, as we strive to improve the breed with each generation.

What are your favorite characteristics about this breed? They are quite talkative, especially the females. Can be clownish with their antics, which is very relaxing and entertaining. Females generally make devoted mothers.



Post some pics of your birds; male/female, chicks, eggs, etc! OK, just remember you asked for it. LOL Call duck palooza!


Butterscotch trio from 20 years ago


Blue Bibbed female from 18 years ago


Blue Fawn trio and Pastel pair


Butterscotch females


Aztec Blue drake


White female


Snowy trio


Grey pair, White female and Snowy drake


Chocolate Bibbed female


Butterscotch drakes molting into nuptial plumage


2 pair Pastels and Blue Fawn female


White drakes



2 Snowy pairs


Pastel females



Grey pair, White drake, Pastel drake and Snowy drake


White Drakes


Snowy pairs


Pastel trio



Babies: Blue Fawn and Grey

 

[casportpony]

What made you decide to get this breed?

I always thought they were cute, then when the guy at the feed store gave me an injured drake, I had to get it a mate.

Do you own them for fun? Breeding? Some other purpose?

Just for fun.

What are your favorite characteristics about this breed?

They are so cute and small, what's not to like?

Post some pics of your birds; male/female, chicks, eggs, etc!

 

[Mogul Moonshine]

i want some so bad but i cant find some resonable eggs to hatch

 

[room onthebroom]

I would love a couple of these cuties! There seems to be some controversy on wether they’re louder than regular ducks, but I have no frame of reference.

What is everybody’s personal experience? Louder? Same? Quieter?

Also, how many do you have?

 

[casportpony]

Great questions!

What is everybody’s personal experience? Louder? Same? Quieter?

My female call is loud, but so are my other ducks. Probably the same, but the pitch or tone is different, kind of the way a small rooster's crow is different.

Also, how many do you have?

I only have two.