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

[cosbackyard]

Tough call at that age. The feather coloring is a bit different than mine and it does look similar to the rouens you sent a pic of. Only time will tell.

 

[Jharper]

The other day an spanish duck breeder said that my little and brown duckling could be a rouen duck
And he send me a photo:

Do you think mine is more similar to a rouen or a khaki Campbell??

Rouen.

 

[Mario farmer]

Do you think its a drake??

 

[cosbackyard]

Looks like it. If the head is darker it'll be a boy. I'm guessing around two months old?

 

[heatherscreations1969]

Is there a section for White Campbell's?

H

 

[Britesea]

Whew! I just went through all 22 pages of the KC thread! I can't wait to get my ducklings! DH says I have to build the coop first, at least, so we aren't racing a deadline. I bought all the materials for the projected coop and run this weekend (spending money! Oh Boy!) I'm planning to order 10 Khakis from Metzer, since they are closest to us so hopefully the darlings will be on the road for the least amount of time. It's got to be traumatic for them. I'm ordering straight run, but I hope I get at least half females. Any excess drakes will be butchered and eaten, even though I know it will be very hard to do-- at least as hard as putting down a doe goat that is getting too old to breed and has given you years of service. I'm not sure when the best age for butchering is--(Most of the posts on this thread seem to view their Khakies as pets so please don't flame me because I am considering eating them)

One question I have is about "ponds". I can't afford an in-ground pond; I'm planning on using a combination of kiddie pool and those tough rubber bucket/troughs I've seen at the feed store. How many do you figure I need to keep them happy?

 

[Cailly_Sighs]

Curious, do these fly for anyone? Mine just run....

 

[Cailly_Sighs]

Whew! I just went through all 22 pages of the KC thread! I can't wait to get my ducklings! DH says I have to build the coop first, at least, so we aren't racing a deadline. I bought all the materials for the projected coop and run this weekend (spending money! Oh Boy!) I'm planning to order 10 Khakis from Metzer, since they are closest to us so hopefully the darlings will be on the road for the least amount of time. It's got to be traumatic for them. I'm ordering straight run, but I hope I get at least half females. Any excess drakes will be butchered and eaten, even though I know it will be very hard to do-- at least as hard as putting down a doe goat that is getting too old to breed and has given you years of service. I'm not sure when the best age for butchering is--(Most of the posts on this thread seem to view their Khakies as pets so please don't flame me because I am considering eating them)

One question I have is about "ponds". I can't afford an in-ground pond; I'm planning on using a combination of kiddie pool and those tough rubber bucket/troughs I've seen at the feed store. How many do you figure I need to keep them happy?

I use that too, I also have a 8 x 8 x 2 ft wooden people pond & waterfall I built that they sneak into sometimes... but so long as I clean out the little pool and rubber drinking bin once a week, they mostly stick to them and love it. I havve had all four get into the pool and it is not very big at all, maybe 4 ft wide...

 

[Mommato5]

I thought this would be a good place to post pics of my KC and find out if it's a boy or girl. We have 3 that are 7 weeks old. one quacks loudly so we KNOW she's a girl, no doubt! The other two mumble more than quack....maybe they are still in the window and could start quacking? One is getting a green/yellow bill so I'm fairly sure he's a boy. This is the remaining duck

Obviously we can't keep 2 boys and 1 girl so it will be devastating if that is what we've got.
Also, in the last pic you can see a grey tail. That duck was sold to us as a KC and it does have a khaki patch on it's chest. What do you think it is? At the start of this thread someone said if you crossed a khaki and a black (?) Campbell you would have sex linked offspring with the greys being male. Could that be what this guy is?

Khaki patch

Thanks in advance!

 

[Cailly_Sighs]

My two males and two females venturing out and about the neighborhood. They always come home though.