Pilgrim geese,The breed is auto-sexing with distinct color differences between males (ganders) and females (geese) at hatching. Newly hatched ganders are light yellow and geese are gray. Adult Ganders are mostly white with some gray on the rump and occasionally with traces of gray on other parts of their bodies. Adult Geese are mostly grey and occasionally have traces of grey in their faces. Both Ganders and geese have a knobless orange bill and orange feet and shanks. Weight of the mature bird is about 13-14 pounds. Pilgrims are fairly docile, quiet birds and good foragers. They are ideal for a home flock and great at weeding. Pricing $20.00 Each
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Duckling Selection
WELSH HARLEQUIN
The Welsh Harlequin are a fairly new breed, developed by Leslie Bonnett in Wales from two lighter colored Khaki Campbells ducklings in 1949. They came to the United States in 1968 and were accepted into the American Poultry Association in 2001 in the Light Duck class. They are becoming a very popular breed due to their multipurpose characteristics. They have excellent egg production abilities due to their Khaki Campbell background yet retain the instinct to sit and hatch a nest full of ducklings. They are calm, inquisitive, and excellent foragers. They can also make an outstanding dressed bird as their under feathers are almost exclusively white making their carcass as pretty as a pure white bird. Interestingly, they can be sexed after hatching with a 90% accuracy by their bill color. Darker bills normally indicate a male and light bills ending in a dark spot a female. They are also a beautiful bird, especially the feather patterns and colors on the females.
$10.00 each
pekin ducks
Pekin duck, is used primarily for their egg and their yummy meat. Fully mature adult Pekin ducks weigh between 8 and 11 at maturity. An adult Pekin will lay an average of 200 eggs per year They will normally only lay one egg on any given day. They will lay their eggs in what they consider to be safe place and will often lay where another duck has already laid. Ducks can be tricked into laying eggs where desired by placing a golf ball or similar object in a place where they might normally lay.
Pricing: $10 each sexed and banded
Rouen Ducks are the heaviest weight breed of domesticated duck, raised
primarily for decoration or as general purpose ducks; since they are not
prolific egg layers producing only 35-125 green tinted eggs yearly. Rouens
are docile birds that are valued for their meat and love to eat slugs
and snails in the garden. Males and females are easily distingiushed
with the females having brown plumage and the males the teal head and
white throat band.
$10.00 each sexed and banded
Black, Fawn & White, Chocolate and Blue Runners. They
are quiet and known for their excellent egg laying production (up to
365 per year, or one per day in one year old ducks. The breed does not
require the same food intake as the larger breeds, and the Indian runner
likes nothing better than foraging for tidbits amongst ground cover and
foliage, this will include a lot of
slugs and worms and insects found in the grass.It will also include
greens, such as grass and duck-weed and with this in mind are also bred
on farms for their natural pest control abilities.
Pricing:$10.00 sexed and banded
KHAKI CAMPBELLS
Khaki’s are known for being one of the best
general-purpose ducks. They are probably the best layers of all of the
domestic ducks. They will have a mature weight of around 4-1/2 lbs. and
their light plumage makes them easy to pick and nice for table use. The
females are seal brown and the males the same with touches of darker
brown and a resemblance to the drake mallard. Khaki Campbells are
excellent foragers and withstand cool climates very well.
