Golden Cascades

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks Nadine!

 

[rainplace]

I found this old post by Wifezilla, "Found this on the Sand Hill Preservation site...
"Golden Cascade: Drakes have greenish-bronze heads with white neck collars, red chestnut breasts, creamy-buff undersides. Hens are a buff color. Live weight is between 6 and 7 pounds. These were introduced in 1984 by Holderread's Waterfowl. They are top notch layers and are deserving of greater world numbers. Over the past several years they have laid almost 100% from early January through August, have taken a couple of weeks off, and then returned to heavy production through the end of the season. Young that are hatched in April will frequently start to lay by Fall. Ducklings $4.00 each (30)"

Dave Holderread also has a breed bulletin (#7) you can buy from him about the breed for $2 http://www.holderreadfarm.com/literature_page/literature.htm

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have the book Storey's guide to Raising Ducks by DH. but I am assuming the GC is a hybrid of pure breeds? Will have to look at this closely. Thanks

 

[pardygwyn]

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I'm right there with you. And I've had ducks like that before, so I know they exist without much work put into them! Unfortunately, they came from feral mutt stock from a lake in the middle of Sitka, Alaska, so I can't get more. LOL Wish I could, though... as kid, I had no idea that it was unusual for ducks to set clutches of 18-24 and lay for most of the year when they weren't incubating. 8D Golden 300s come close, but the ones I had wouldn't set. That'd be another thing I'd be interested to hear about GCs.

I know there's someone on here who sells GC eggs sometimes, so hopefully we'll hear something.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Yeah, I read the info from Sandhill like what Wifezilla wrote out. I had not thought to buy a brochure from Holderread. If he did not make the variety I figured he would not have a lot of good to say about it. But I could be projecting.
I had not seen anyone selling GC eggs before. That would be neat but I haven't had luck in hatching ducks. Chickens I find easy, ducks not so much.

I would like to raise a few and cross a few but mostly I like layers and then meat. This coming year will be my "duck" experiment year! LOL

 

[desertdarlene]

I saw some photos on Google, they look like gorgeous ducks.

 

[Rosebud 18]

Golden Cascade
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Golden Cascade is a breed of domestic duck developed in the United States. In 1979, David Holderread of Corvallis, Oregon set out to breed a duck that was fast growing, active, laid eggs well, and was auto-sexing. By the mid-1980s, the Golden Cascade was introduced to the market. It is not yet admitted to the American Poultry Association's Standard of Perfection.

The Golden Cascade was so named because of its golden hue, and for the prominent Cascade Range of the Northwest. They weigh 6-8 pounds (2.7-3.6 kilos). Females have buff plumage and black beaks. Drakes have yellow beaks, greenish-brown heads, white ring on their necks, reddish breasts and white underbodies.


Type golden cascade in your search engine and when the box drops down click on each one and maybe you can find what your looking for.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Anybody know if the auto-sexing refers to the ability to tell the ducklings apart at hatch?
Does that ability continue past the first generation?

 

[pardygwyn]

Nope, no autosexing at hatching according to the person who sells eggs here. I just did a quick search and found the thread where they spoke briefly about their ducks: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=181548

That type of personal experience is more of what I'm interested in, rather than an article on how the ducks *should* be. I suppose I should get off my butt and message them. LOL

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are beautiful Ducks, I have heard of them before, but had forgotten about them because They seem to be kinda a mystery. Not many people talk about them on here, I will really have to research them. Wonder what breeds were used to create them. Duck eggs aren't very popular around this area, besides myself and a friend I know of noone who eats them. They are great for baking too, but it's hard to get people to believe me. oh well