Tell me about your Swedish ducks! ;)

[newchickmom09]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me about there Blue or Black Swedish ducks. These little ducklings that I am watching I think that they are Swedish ducks, from what some BYC members say and some others I have talked to. They look like the pics of them that I have found online also. So if anyone wants to brag or share pictures I would appreciate it.

Are they good layers, are they friendly, do they like being handled, or left alone, are they a bigger, medium, or smaller size ducks (read they are around 8 lbs)?

 

[Goat_Walker]

My blue drake was and will always be my baby ( R.I.P.) he was such a sweetheart! I could walk right up and pick him up ut of the pool and to the field to be "launched". He would fly back home and wait for me to let him back in the gate.

I have a black swede girl now. She is sweet but kind of rude to the other ducks.

 

[streemers]

they are medium sized and i love mine! i have 2 blacks i got from rainyplace and had a blue but a dog got her. i think they have a lot of personality and my blue layed everyday except for 3weeks in the winter. my new blacks are only like 7 or 8 weeks so they prob. wont lay until spring but i would be shocked if i got less than an egg a day each almost all year. they are always checking things out and are good forigers. they got used to my hubby and i really fast and eat from our hands now. i just ran outside and took these pics

 

[newchickmom09]

Love the pics! They are very cute ducks!

Goat walker sorry to hear about your pride and joy..r.i.p.

 

[froggie71]

We have 4 blue Swedish girls. They are great layers unless broody. Out of all our ducks Swedish, khaki campell and runners, they are the loudest, largest and sometimes the funniest. They definitely are funny to watch them run. When they are broody, they are quite loud and may try to "bite" you. LOL not that it hurts. Where as our runners who are broody quietly sit on their nest and you can pet them. I guess my funniest story about the swedes is when the 2 broodys decided to give up and they moved their entire nest eggs and all over to the runners nest. 2 days later one of the eggs hatched and it was one of the Swedes babies. They are great ducks though. We have had ours for almost a year now. We got them as day old ducklings in August 2008 and they started laying in January. Once laying consistently, they laid an egg a day till the 2 went broody.

 

[newchickmom09]

great story froggie71 silly ducks. LOL

 

[rainplace]

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OMG they have gotten so big! Zac says they look beautiful

 

[Soccer Mom]

They are some of my favorite ducks! They are reliable layers and have bold interesting personalities. My drakes can be bullies sometimes.

How much do I love this breed? I'm reducing my flock and gradually getting rid of the drakes. I intend to have only females and to have just two breeds: Welsh Harlequins and Blue Swedes!

Okay and maybe some Magpies, too. I can't imagine my farm without Magpies. And maybe just a couple Cayuga. (Yes, I have duck fever bad!)

 

[TK Poultry]

i have 5 blacks and 1 splash i just love them the are sweet and calm not flyty and annoying like some very down to earth by far my fav duck wise my close second being buff.... here are some pics

My Big Drake Jethro

Playing in a pool at a Show

Jethro with his Champion Ribbions!!!

 

[Ducklove334]

my little blue swed hen will be a year old this october, a day before halloween actually LOL.

she's a goofy little thing and she does this "horse gallop" thing when she gets excited.

she never grew quite right though, she's very small and kind of bow-legged, and she shakes quite abit, but she layed an egg every day until she went broody, she actually has a total of 5 biological ducklings that I hatched, well she hatched three, only one of those is alive, but had to be taken because her brooding partner pretty much took over the nest and didn't like the ducklings, then Sage just never gt the baby idea, so hopefully next year.