Trying again with Ducklings!

[Going Quackers]

Good luck with your adventure! I opted for ducks instead of chickens..

(nothing against chickens, just ducks sounded more suitable and less issues overall) I was cautioned about the eggs not being as plentiful.. omg i have eggs everywhere! seriously, I have way more than I know what to do with. I need to start selling some. It's insane.. i basically got eggs all winter.. with few breaks.

Now they are brooding babies.. i knew of 'chicken math' but apparently this applies to ducks too.

 

[mandelyn]

I've been kicking around the idea of doing just ducks too! Keeping the Serama for fun, but selling the layers. But.. I have a couple favorites, so then I was thinking about building a small coop for 3, and giving the old one to baby ducks for growing them out.

All I've done for now is I stopped buying hatching eggs of layer type chickens. Haven't bought any in a year. May sell them all once they get 2 years old.

BUT.. sometimes my stomach doesn't like just duck eggs, so I cut it with one chicken egg. With the Serama, two of theirs would equal the one... and I can't hatch everything they lay, so I don't "need" the layer group once the itty-bittys start going.