We have a lot of breed focuses on specific duck breeds - pekins, runners, cayugas, call ducks, etc... but we're forgetting to look at another cool kind of duck - the mixed breeds! There's a lot of cool looking duck crosses and I'd love to see pictures of all of yours if you have any mixes, whether intentionally or by accident!
To start off, we have 5 cayuga/pekin mixes. They look like swedish ducks, but ours have more green/purple sheens in their feathers, brown eyes, and stand differently. They are noisy, noisier than our pekin female, and seem to have 'obtained' the 'nervous pekin' quack gene. Namely, I threw a small rock at a branch that was lying against the electric fence where the pigs are to knock it down and they all started quacking loudly and running away from me!
They lay really good - from 4 mixed females and 1 pekin female we get 4 eggs a day, sometimes 5, and they're two years old. Never broody so far.
Females:
Drake:
What mixes do you have? What are they like? Do you have a favourite cross?
To start off, we have 5 cayuga/pekin mixes. They look like swedish ducks, but ours have more green/purple sheens in their feathers, brown eyes, and stand differently. They are noisy, noisier than our pekin female, and seem to have 'obtained' the 'nervous pekin' quack gene. Namely, I threw a small rock at a branch that was lying against the electric fence where the pigs are to knock it down and they all started quacking loudly and running away from me!
They lay really good - from 4 mixed females and 1 pekin female we get 4 eggs a day, sometimes 5, and they're two years old. Never broody so far.
Females:
Drake:
What mixes do you have? What are they like? Do you have a favourite cross?
