The khaki-Campbell duck Thread !!!!!!!!

You may want to be patient and just wait it out with them. They may have seen something scary and want safety until they're ready to start ducking around again. My ducks hate being in unless they have to.
 
Sexing a khaki Campbell. We got two kc's March 30th. They are both brown and have the lacing where their back meets their tail, but one has white bands on its wings. Today, the one with the white bands looks like it's getting a curled tail feather. It wasn't that way yesterday and then today, bam. I'll post some pics. It doesn't look like our buffs tail curl, so I'm wondering if it's just the first stage of curling or if it's just a disturbed feather? I tried smoothing it, but it wouldn't smooth and it wasn't loose. I'm also confused because my kids told me this khaki had been on the bottom end of some breeding. Please offer your opinions on whether this Campbell is a drake! Thank you!

That does not look like a drake curl to me at all. It looks like a disturbed feather. The pencilling is wrong for a drake as well. I think you have two girls who are fake mating for pecking order or practice or whatever. I have two boys and three girls and every now and then I see one girl "mating" the other.
 
Nope. Here's a comparison chart from my favorite mail order duck hatcher/breeder.
http://www.metzerfarms.com/DuckBreedComparison.cfm?affiliate=undef&CustID=15805965

But they lay a lot more of them! My oldest girl started laying almost a year ago. She has given me an egg a day, almost everyday. She missed a few days early on but laid consistently all winter. She will have laid 340-355 eggs per year if she keeps it up for the next 11 days. Her eggs are also much bigger now than when she first started laying.

July 23, 2016 first egg
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July 12, 2017 most recent egg
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Meet summer and spring, male or female?
 

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