Ducks vs chickens, or ducks AND chickens?

[lonebluetear]

You provided a lot of great information and I appreciate it tremendously. Thank you!

 

[Duck Drover]

Awesome! I am glad I could help.

 

[Birdydeb]

I thank you too! Lots of good comparisons....good review. I should print it out and give it to everyone who keeps telling me I will regret getting ducks.

 

[Duck Drover]

One benefit I forgot to mention is that ducks can be sexed at a younger age and the hens start laying at 4 months old.

They also produce down if you like quilting and you eat your drakes. We ate our Muscovy drakes years ago but we don't have meat ducks now.

 

[gaylittleswan]

Goodness, has anybody ever seen a chocolate muscovy? They are gorgeous! If only they weren't so hard to find!

 

[Duck Drover]

The chocolates are what I raised and mine were beautiful. So many chocolates, and other colors as well, end up with the pied gene which destroys the solid colors. I replaced my drakes and kept my hens but it got too hard to find nice drakes without any white markings so I moved on.