Mini Appleyards vs Australian Spotted Versus Campbells

[cottagechick]

I have bantam chickens. I decided to go with them for a number of reasons instead of lf. I would like to get two ducks. At first I wanted to get Muscovies...but I am not so sure now. Since I already have dwarf chickens I don't know if I want giant ducks.... As with chickens I think that I need EVERY breed when I am reading about it. But since I only want to get two....or was it three? I was leaning towards the Campbells...because they really aren't that much bigger than my Bantys, right? But I think the Australian Spotted are so cute...you get the pictures....so what are the best and worst things about these breeds? Any advice that might sway me either way?

 

[Nava]

my drake did mount my chickens, and he was rough too

 

[cottagechick]

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Hmmm...well I have been going back and forth between just two girls and two girls and a boy...but if I just got two girls...anybody have any thoughts on the breeds?

 

[chickenlisa]

I've got 10 Australian Spotted ducks and love them, all except for 1 very loud female. I have 6 females and 4 males, and only 1 of the girls is persistently quacking. These are this past Spring's 3 hatchlings, their last year's parents, and the original male and female that I hatched a few years ago. They are great little ducks...beautiful to look at and easy to keep.
I don't know about the other kind of duck...other than the large breeds can kill Banty hens...I had a large Black Swedish drake mount and kill a small black Bantam hen years ago....

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

I had 2 female khakis, and 1 male khaki. That khaki boy was the sweetest thing ever, it completly KILLED me to sell him. But they went to a great home

he was a sweety.