The Quack Shack

[Jenbirdee]

Down to twogosling’s I sold the two big boys and kept the little girl and little boy named them Evangeline and Earl.
The first three ducklings I hatched in my incubator are almost 4 weeks old and there are seven more eggs set to hatch in a week
Will be moving things around for sure

 

[Supercow]

So, um... The half of our young Welshies that are XXL size ... Ahem...

It's a very good possibility that they are actually Silver appleyards. They are huge, they have the eye-to-bill dark stripe.

I don't mind the Appleyards, they seem like a very solid breed and good layers too. But we really wanted Welshies so I wrote to the breeder.

If it were me in his shoes I would tell the customer sorry, my bad, here is another batch of true WH eggs at no cost. No idea what will actually happen.

 

[Jenbirdee]

So, um... The half of our young Welshies that are XXL size ... Ahem...

It's a very good possibility that they are actually Silver appleyards. They are huge, they have the eye-to-bill dark stripe.

I don't mind the Appleyards, they seem like a very solid breed and good layers too. But we really wanted Welshies so I wrote to the breeder.

If it were me in his shoes I would tell the customer sorry, my bad, here is another batch of true WH eggs at no cost. No idea what will actually happen.

Wow, yeah you’re right. I just went back a few pages and looked at your pictures. I have Welsh Harleys and I also have a Silver Apple Yard so duhhhhh I should have seen that right away, but I was just thinking that your Harley‘s looked kind of odd lol

 

[Jenbirdee]

Wow, yeah you’re right. I just went back a few pages and looked at your pictures. I have Welsh Harleys and I also have a Silver Apple Yard so duhhhhh I should have seen that right away, but I was just thinking that your Harley‘s looked kind of odd lol

I thought it was because you’re overseas lol foreign Ducks

 

[Supercow]

I thought it was because you’re overseas lol foreign Ducks

Haha
Le duck!
Are you happy with your Appleyards as layers?

 

[Jenbirdee]

Haha
Le duck!
Are you happy with your Appleyards as layers?

Actually, she’s a great duck, but she does have a laying problem when my chickens used to be in with my ducks, and they scared the bejeebers out of them every dayshe had a prolapse last year. I got it to stay back in with colloidal silver and Manuka honey. and now I still occasionally give her extra vitamins, and calcium gluconate, and infant vitamin D drops to help her egg shells look normal again again they were very thin shells with large calcium deposits on them. at one point when she had the prolapse, I tried to get her to stop laying, and it was practically impossible and then she laid all winter long when the other stopped. She’s only just two years old now.

 

[Supercow]

Sorry to hear that

Lower protein food would maybe help in a brute-force way? Since there would simply not be enough "raw materials" to form the egg.

 

[Jenbirdee]

That’s Blossom the silver apple yard with her best friend sugar, the white layer

 

[Jenbirdee]

Sorry to hear that

Lower protein food would maybe help in a brute-force way? Since there would simply not be enough "raw materials" to form the egg.

Yeah, and I had her in a dark crate in my basement for like a week, but it was so sad. I let her back out. She’s OK now though.

 

[Jenbirdee]

In my opinion from experience I think the best all around duck is the Golden 300 .