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[drumstick diva]

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[N F C]

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[rjohns39]

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[007Sean]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC! Good luck with all your poultry endeavors!

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[Claires Poultry]

Hello and welcome to BYC!

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[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal community!!!! Best wishes and have lots of fun!

 

[MROO]

Turtles and Gators and Ducks, Oh MY!
Nope, creating a Reptile Swim-Through Window is definitely not a good idea, unless you're a Florida gator! Once you figure out your housing/fencing issue, check out the Livestock Conservancy's Priority List:
https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/conservation-priority-list#Ducks
There are lots of neat ducks there, all of which could use the boost of another breeder. By choosing one of these critters, you'll get your eggs, but you'll also get a marketable product - endangered ducklings and/or hatching eggs. As an important sideline, you'll be helping an endangered heritage breed. That may not seem too important to many people, but if we lose the building blocks of our more "modern" breeds, what will happen to genetic diversity, further down the road.
And yes, I do practice what I preach ... in addition to my small mixed flock, I have a coop of Nankin Bantams ... andbody want an endangered rooster or two? ... or three??? ... or ...???

 

[Cocoanut88]

Thanks for this help on breed selection!

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The Best Ducks for Laying Eggs
Updated on July 9, 2019

Drake Runner
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I am a duck breeder who relocated from urban life in Tampa, FL, to a rural mountainous area outside of Radford, VA.

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What Are the Best Duck Breeds for Eggs?
This is a tricky question. To answer it properly, we first need to determine a couple of things. What do you want the eggs for? Do you live in an urban setting or somewhere rural? Do you like greenish-blue eggs? You need to know what you are looking for before you get started.

In general, Pekin and Campbells produce the most eggs. Runners produce a substantial amount of greenish-blue ones. The Aylesbury, a form of Pekin, produces a good number of eggs, but it is critically endangered according to the Livestock Conservancy.

For this article, I used the duck comparison chart data from Metzer Farms, my personal experience raising ducks, and research data. I hope that all of this information will help you decide on the best duck breed for your egg-laying needs.

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My two pekin hens lay one egg every single day and sometimes theyre double yolk, not to mention the dark orange/red yolks