what breed to mate with pekin call ducks

claraserena

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Mar 5, 2007
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WE have 2 white pekin call ducks, both female. I'd like to get a male and another female. What breeds would be compatible? We keep them in a barn for winder, with a smal pool. would like to let them free range with the chickens now that it's warming up.
Last sumer fall/ we had five ducks whose wings I did not clip and they would fly once or twice a day but otherwise hang out with the chickens Then 3 flew off. I've clpped the wings the 2 left but still nervous about letting them out.
But my main questins is, what breeds would mate with our girls?
I LOVE these ducks!
 
Do you have calls or a call/pekin cross? If you have calls I'd get another call or another bantam duck breed. Any breed will try and mate with them, but I can't imagine my little call hens survivng being bred by any large breed drake.
 
The person I got them from said they are call ducks. I will try to weigh one then figure how big they are in relation to full size Pekin.
 
Maybe they are white call ducks? There's a BIG difference between pekins and call ducks as far as size. Pekins are a heavy duck (9 lbs+ ) calls are bantam (less than 2 lbs). If they are calls you would need another bantam breed. If you can't find a call drake a mallard or east Indies would work fine. I've bred my call hen to a mallard drake before and it was fine.
 

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