guck or is it a doose?

[beakkeeper]

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Turkens are Transyvania naked neck chickens developed in Europe in the 1800's for easier plucking for the table as they have a fraction of the feathers of other chicken breeds.

Wouldn't it be cool if they WERE chicken/turkey crosses?

Take a look at these crosses:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKHybrids.html

ETA: the guinea/naked neck crosses are like freaky vultures!!!

 

[Teach97]

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Hey! Sounds to me like the guy should get some sort of award...Nobel Peace Prize for culunary mastery...

I have yet to meet something fried that wasn't good

 

[conny63malies]

But isnt a muscovy actually genetic closer to a goose than to a duck? I know that a goose has croseed with a swan before
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v045n01/p0039-p0040a.pdf
In a zoo in copenhagen denmark in 1947 was a domestic goose x domestic mallard cross
http://www.gobirding.eu/Photos/HybridDucks.php
there are some pics of a Mallard x Egyptian Goose hybrid from the UK.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

It is possible, but EXTREMELY unlikely. There have been only a few precedents confirmed, as the poster before me talked of the confirmed hybrid in the zoo.

Possible, but highly unlikely. You would be better off putting the eggs to better use. I think you would loose countless eggs in the 'bator hoping for a viable hybrid egg.

-Kim

 

[conny63malies]

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i read somewhere before they artifically inseminated ducks/ geese and it had a lot of influence in getting a hybrid egg to hatch depending if the duck or the goose was female. Cant remember whic had better results. But they worked with over 3000 eggs.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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i read somewhere before they artifically inseminated ducks/ geese and it had a lot of influence in getting a hybrid egg to hatch depending if the duck or the goose was female. Cant remember whic had better results. But they worked with over 3000 eggs.

Well, AI raises the chances significantly because the physical barrier of the mating has been overcome, leaving only the genetic differences. I think a lonely chinese gander and four ducks left to their own doing, will have little chance.

Now if the OP began actually using AI, his chances would greatly improve and then I could see sufficient reason to place eggs in the incubator.

If you have the incubator space and see that gander mating those ducks, couldn't hurt by giving it a try. Just remember to share pics if anything comes through!

-Kim

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

do ducks not hatch their own babies?

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Some do, it depends on the breed you have. Just like chickens, some breeds of duck rarely go broody. Usually the commercial breeds are the ones you shouldn't hold your breath for to go broody. I think among them are Pekin, Runner, and Campbells. Now they can and have gone broody, but it's not something you can depend on.

What kind of ducks do you have?

-Kim

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I have 4 sister ducks that are blue swedish/mallard mixes.... one looks like a black swedish, with a little bib, one looks like a blue swedish (greyish with a white little bib), one is pale yellow with grey on her wings, and one is just light yellow.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

their mom was blue swedish, and she hatched them and raised them.