What is the best kind of duck?

[jrleader99]

It really depends on what your personal preference is.

We just got 8 Indian Runners and love to watch them. They are about 4 weeks old, and so cute and funny. I am greeted every morning when I go to check on them in their brooder (they are in a dog crate for now in the chicken coop) with their little voices until I let them out and walk them to their run with their almost finished duck house. At the end of the night, I walk them back to their brooder. I love the fact that they know when I am coming to move them and exactly where to go. I don't have to corral or chase them anymore.

Also my 1.5 yr old chocolate lab loves to help with the moving of the ducks. She is so gentle with them and walks right behind them. She wants to sniff and lick them but they are too fast for her.

 

[jacyjones]

I have had Saxonys and khaki campbells. I love the khakis as they are really good layers and real characters - they are very entertaining and although friendly never let me get near enough to touch them! I have also had cayugas which were really beautiful.

 

[Wifezilla]

I have a khaki drake, a buff hen, a runner hen, a rouen (possibly a drake??), a runner/khaki mix, and a buff/khaki mix.

The buff has a lot of personality, but she is a bit obnoxious. The purebred runner and the khaki are skittish. The rouen is a bit standoff-ish. My runner/khaki is a sweety, but I hatched her so she is a bit imprinted on me. The buff/khaki I hatched out is a lot like mom...friendly but a bit obnoxious. LOL

If I get another duck, I think I will get a welsh harlequin. They are supposed to be a mellow version of a khaki.

 

[Deedee]

I have 3 rouens, 2 buffs and a khaki. i have only had them a month but my favorite is my crested rouen, she is so loving a greets we in the morning with kisses to my leg.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

WELSH HARLEQUINS!

1. They are tied with the best layers the Khaki Campbell (They are very closely related).
2. They can be beak sexed with 90% acccuracy within their first day or so. (If a Silver Harlequin hen has offspring with a Khaki CAmpbell drake they can be sexed with 100% accuracy by the color of their down.)
3. They are great foragers.
4. They tend to be calm and yet inquisitive.
5. They usually don't quack quite as loud or as often as other ducks.
5. They can't fly away.
6. They are a bit more likey to go broody than any other lightweight classified ducks.
7. They are very beautiful!

 

[Wifezilla]

Sooooo......do you have ducklings for sale???

 

[Dances with Ducks]

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Uhh . . do you mean am I selling WH ducklings? No. I know that comes off like a sales pitch, I just looove my Bridgett! Someday I hope to have ducklings, but that's a long range project. I hope to get a young WH drake and one or two more hens this summer. And I'm too lazy to do an incubator so will be limited to whatever broody hens I wind up with.

 

[Luvducks]

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Really beautiful! Good to know.

 

[Wifezilla]

Shucks! I guess I will have to order from Metzer after all

 

[ChickBond 007]

Oh, Debi, I love my flying mallards. (One is an appleyard mix-mallard.) They follow me (the lettuce lady), they beg to sleep in the garage in their baby pool, they dive for peas and they are to hilarious. Mine fly, and I don't cut their wings. They always stay close and never venture far from home.
If I ever get to the point that they are laying FERTILE instead of infertile eggs, I'll send you some. My grand-ducks would love to live with someone "digit-ally enhanced." LOL