Male Mandarin

[LuvDux]

I'm looking for an adult male mandarin duck to pair with my female. I had one but last October it dissappeared. I'm in desperate need of one by July. Please help me out here. If anyone knows where I can get a single male or knows anybody that breeds these ducks please let me know.

 

[simmonspoultry]

You might try looking on eggbid.com. It may be hard to find breeding age birds this time of year. Best of luck

 

[LuvDux]

I've been looking since mine went missing. Nobody wants to sell adults or will only sell as a group. This is so frustrating...

 

[simmonspoultry]

I know what you mean. The best time to buy birds is in the fall and winter. Sometimes you can catch some birds in the spring and summer at swap meets or poultry auctions, but once the birds start breeding and laying nobody wants to sell them.

 

[MikkeyP]

I just lost a male mandarin also. Does anybody else have "crazy" mandarins? They try to kill themselves everytime you approach the cage.
I had two males and one female left as a friend had given my daughter her other male. We had had them since last Oct and they just never settled down. Daughter was really hoping to have some eggs to hatch and raise "calmer" birds. These were nuts!!!! She took my error better than I did. Said it was inevitable as they are bent on killing themselves.
Just wanted to know if everyone's were that nuts.

 

[simmonspoultry]

If you buy full-winged birds that have been raised in a large flight pen, then yes they will be wild and crazy. One thing you can do is clip their wings and by the time they grow back they should be used to you. If you have a smaller pen then you may have to move slow when you enter the pen. When you raise birds yourself from ducklings then you shouldn't have any problems with them being wild. If it was me, I would clip their wings and just be patient as it will take some time for them to calm down. Best of luck.

 

[simmonspoultry]

I forgot to say that with full-winged birds they can fly up, hit their heads on the side or top of the pen and break their necks. I have lost a few birds that way. But once you get them to calm down then it should be smooth sailing.

 

[rbseggs]

I am looking for a female mandarin if any of you cannot find a male and want to give up your female. haha I know but maybe worth asking.

 

[AmeraucanaMD]

I have 2 male mandarins available, possibly a female later once the laying season has ended.
Both males are starting to drop some of their feathers and will soon be going into eclipse plumage.
$20 each plus shipping+box ( $40), $60 total to ship one male, will ship as soon as I get a money order.
Need room for the babies!
Send me a pm on here please, as I will check back soon.


Also just a note since I always see a lot of interest in shipping mandarin/other exotic duck eggs on these forums, they incubate best horizontally and do not do well at all if incubated in a vertical turner the 1st 2 weeks. The very best thing you could do would be to put them under a trustworthy broody hen the 1st two weeks and then put them in a vertical or horizontal turner (or hand turn) and you should have every fertile egg hatch out. Otherwise you tend to get lots of dead embryos ~2 weeks for some reason.
Sorry! had to rant!

 

[LuvDux]

Still looking for a male a little closer to home...anyone?