thinking of getting ducks

[TSOWOATNKC]

No. Especially get back to us if you find a duck breed with alligator heads.

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[sóley]

thanks for your help, other question, I have been looking up on google info about muscovy ducks, and it says if a muscovy has chicks with other duck breeds the offspring will be sterile, they are called mules.
so if I would have a flock of the alligator ducks (haha just kidding) if I would have a flock of aliducks with females and a male and then have a flock of muscovy ducks females and male, and I would keep them all together, would I have to move them away from each other when I wanted to collect there eggs for incubation so I wouldn't get mules?

 

[TSOWOATNKC]

You would separate them before they start breeding. Ducks mate, then fertile eggs are laid, not like fish spawning where eggs are laid and then milted.

 

[Pyxis]

Yes, the offspring are sterile, since they're two different species, not just two different breeds. As TSOWOATNKC said, you have to have them separate well before you intend to hatch eggs - it can take three weeks for a female to be clear of sperm from a male she was housed with.

 

[sóley]

Yes, the offspring are sterile, since they're two different species, not just two different breeds. As TSOWOATNKC said, you have to have them separate well before you intend to hatch eggs - it can take three weeks for a female to be clear of sperm from a male she was housed with.

okey I thought so also, I read somewhere that someone didn't do that and never had mules but I thought that can't be true, at least that's weary risky to take the risk of that.

also it comes up when you google it that they only breed with each other unless you have a single muscovy male or female, but I don't want to take the risk of getting mules even tho there really beautiful

 

[Tracycakes]

so I'm thinking of getting a duck, not sure tho, I love how beautiful the welsh harlequin duck is, do you like that breed?

here are some questions I have

1. I own chickens and allot of them and few different breeds, haha so I would keep the ducks in the same coop as the chickens, do the welsh harlequin ducks like living with chickens and are the welsh harlequin good egg layers?

2. my ducks would be free range like my chickens so I know they will probly fly away to play somewhere, but do I have to train them to come back home? or do they just learn that on there own

3. I don't have any water for them to swim in, so would it be fine to buy kids pool for them do have outside there coop to swim in or is that to small for them.

4. I hear ducks are messy, is that true and is there any way to prevent that, like maybe have the swimming water outside, do they still make a mess inside with the drinking water?

5. what breeds are good both for eggs and meat? are the welsh harlequin good for meat and eggs? (don't matter tho if there not good for meat, I mostly want egg laying ducks but just curiosity)

6. are the welsh harlequin friendly?

sorry if this are stupid questions, I just have never owned a duck before so I don't know anything about them

 

[sóley]

Okey, I asked this group about the alligator ducks and only one person has answered me right now but anyway he says that there called domestic ducks in English, So a mix breed?

When I google them they are many breeds that are domestic ducks (Domestic ducks are ducks that are raised for meat, eggs and down. Many ducks are also kept for show or as pets)

So I guess alligator ducks are many different breeds that people in Icelandic just breed all together, i’m waiting for more information in this group but this is the only thing I got right now from them.

 

[Pyxis]

Domestic are any breed that has been domesticated, so unfortunately that's not much information. It sounds like they might not really be a breed, but just mixes

 

[sóley]

Domestic are any breed that has been domesticated, so unfortunately that's not much information. It sounds like they might not really be a breed, but just mixes

Yeah I asked if there mix breeds then and I got more information, aliducks are ducks that where mix of
Buff, campbell, welsh harlekin, cayga, saxen, rouen and aylesbury few years ago and are now called aliducks and are really popular her in Iceland