New into call ducks

KariBunny

Songster
7 Years
Sep 8, 2016
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Terrell TX
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I'm new into breeding call ducks.
And I have several questions regarding these cuties.
When is the best time to breed call ducks?
Can I put 2 females and 2 males in one pen together. Do the females have to be certain age? How many eggs do they lay? I have an incubator, can I put the eggs they lay in the incubator or just leave the eggs alone with mom? How many times a year do they lay? Anything else I need to know?? Lol

Thanks and I hope is not too many questions lol.
Blessings ❤
 
Welcome to the love of call ducks!

@Pyxis can probably answer the breeding questions better than I can, but it is possible to keep 2 males and 2 females together. Most times, Calls with pick a mate, so your 2 pairs might mate up, or both males could possibly want the same female. So you’ll just have to try it, but be prepared to separate them.

For incubating eggs, they have a tendency to be broody, but there’s no guarantee. I have one that has never been broody, but ones younger than her that have. So that’s on the individual hens. Females usually start laying around 20 weeks or so. The eggs can be difficult to hatch in an incubator, and often require assisted hatching, so if you plan to incubate them, I’d suggest you read up on assisting.

Pretty birds you got. :love
 
We've been talking on Facebook :)

So I told you on there all your ducklings are probably going to be black bibbed and blue bibbed, unless your two hens happen to be split for e+ (mallard base) and aren't homozygous for E (extended black).

Looks like the males you have there are a snowy and a gray. So the ducklings from the gray will be black/blue bibbed, but split to mallard base, and the ducklings from the snowy would also be black/blue bibbed but split to mallard base and split to snowy, too. That means if you kept some to breed back, you could get gray, blue fawn, snowy, blue snowy, etc, from the ducklings.
 
Welcome to the love of call ducks!

@Pyxis can probably answer the breeding questions better than I can, but it is possible to keep 2 males and 2 females together. Most times, Calls with pick a mate, so your 2 pairs might mate up, or both males could possibly want the same female. So you’ll just have to try it, but be prepared to separate them.

For incubating eggs, they have a tendency to be broody, but there’s no guarantee. I have one that has never been broody, but ones younger than her that have. So that’s on the individual hens. Females usually start laying around 20 weeks or so. The eggs can be difficult to hatch in an incubator, and often require assisted hatching, so if you plan to incubate them, I’d suggest you read up on assisting.

Pretty birds you got. :love


Thanks for the reply :)
I did contact pyxis thru Facebook and she did very kindly replied. Hopefully my hens start laying soon. I'll keep you posted.

Blessings ❤
 
We've been talking on Facebook :)

So I told you on there all your ducklings are probably going to be black bibbed and blue bibbed, unless your two hens happen to be split for e+ (mallard base) and aren't homozygous for E (extended black).

Looks like the males you have there are a snowy and a gray. So the ducklings from the gray will be black/blue bibbed, but split to mallard base, and the ducklings from the snowy would also be black/blue bibbed but split to mallard base and split to snowy, too. That means if you kept some to breed back, you could get gray, blue fawn, snowy, blue snowy, etc, from the ducklings.


Yes thank you very much for the information, I appreciate it a lot. I'll let you know when hens start laying, I'm so excited.
Blessings ❤
 

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