My new Call Ducks **Pics**

Here are the newest addition to my menagerie 5 Young Grey Calls and a Pair of Adult White.
These are show Quality and the White one in the pic below has been shown and the Grey's are all from show lines.

I got them at a bargain just traded some of my pretty doves for them {:~)

This is a little Male he is so cute with his little bill and he quacks very softly.

I forgot to mention i have 3 females and 2 males in the Grey

The Grey males look just like Little green headed mallards when they are adults and the females are brown

Closeup of his little head

This is the White Male of the pair and the female is on nest she laid a egg yesterday i was shocked i have only had them since Sunday

They are so cute! I had no idea Call ducks were that little. I finally figured out I will have Swedish ducks when I get some. I've talked to several people that have them and Khaki Campells (the other breed I was considering).They are excellent layers/foragers, and I think they are prettier than the Khakis.

I luv the speckles. Very prettiful Harmony.

Closeup of the white male

Here is the dad to my new Grey Calls and yes these are the pics from the show i went to in February.
I never dreamed when i took this pic that i would one day own Ducklings from this very male.

Thanks Dahlia and Loreen i just love them

Loreen good choice on the Swedish or Khaki those are some nice breeds
My Cayuga's range and forage all day they even go in the woods and doodle under the fallen leaves and pine straw.

They are so cute,the white ones look like stuffed animals ,they don`t look real,do you have to have a special place with water for them to swim in?I know nothing at all about ducks.

Green I'm using little containers like dish pans or you can use a large cat litter pan.
I will be moving them to their own pens with bigger swim containers i will get those at the feed store.
It's those large black plastic pans they use for horses and other animals.

They are fun to watch if you give them a deep enough container they will dive to the bottom of it.
We have a great time watching them play in the water :~)

I love the greys - they are just beautiful. I really love the blue stripe on the wing in that first picture. They have a very elegant look to them. I also like their size - my ducks are really too big.

BEAUTIFUL. Love the ducks.

Thanks Claire and Wren i just love them and their size is just perfect pet size.
I want to raise some and give them alot of attention so they will come to me and want some treats.
These have been raised as show ducks and were given very little personal attention.
The breeder had 150 Call Ducks in and array of colors i just wanted to take them all home LOL

I have this one egg and i'm thinking of putting it under a banty hen i have sitting on some fake eggs i was hopeing she would lay another one so i could put 2 or 3 under the hen.
Doe's anyone know if this would work?

I have had a Thai hen raise ducklings from my Pekins and Swedish and it worked perfectly! My ducks seem to lay every day or every other day so I think it should work if you can collect 2 or 3 eggs over a week and pop them all under the banty hen - maybe take out the fake eggs if there are too many eggs under there for her size!

Thanks Claire i hate to waste the eggs and this banty has been on the fakes about a week waiting on me to get some eggs LOL
I broke open the egg the breeder gave me out of the pen and it was fertile had the little white spot on the yolk.
So i know they are fertile i hope she lays one today ;) I guess Calls are like bantys they lay every other day ( I'm new to all this)
Every site i visited they only gave info on the hatching not about how often they lay ........i will keep looking {:~)

Harm I may be able to come see you around Christmas. We are planing to go to my DS in Dallas, Ga. Am Hoping I can come and get pictures of your beautiful creatures.

Okay Wren will do

There is no such thing as a 'too big' duck IMPO. All ducks are perfect.

Oh i agree Dahlia my sons Rouens are big we talkin big and very beautiful.

At my house we have a chorus of different "Quacks" The rouens go "Quwack" very low and loud my Cayuga's go "Quwack" just a regular one now my pet Calls go "high pitched" "Quwack" real fast and finally my little Calls go "Squeeky" "Quwack"
So we hear Quwack Quwack Quwack in 4 different tones.
I told my DH we should train them to do it on cue we could really have a funny song LOL

Quackershop Quartet! Ever Cool Harmony!

It really is a "Quartet" every morning when i go to feed i get all the ones Quacking and the roos are crowing i swear i don't know how my neighbors put up with me LOL

I love them! I want Ducks, but I have no clue how to take care of ducks! :(

Melissa they are great pets and are easier than chickens to take care of really they are more hardier than chickens.
They will keep your yard bug free mine search all day for bugs and they don't scratch like chickens.

I use to have yard chickens but i had to give them away because of all the poop it was everywhere and i have a huge yard and they did it on my porch.
My ducks i can't even find their poop and they come to the house and doodle all around it.

They don't get sick like chickens and they are also way more intelligent than chickens and they will learn quickly to go back into a pen at night.
FUN :~) to watch in a pool just fill it up and sit and laugh as they dive and jump out and fly back in.

But if caged they are very messy and that turns folks off about them but free range they are really cool pets.
I have never had ducks till this year and you know what i kick myself for not trying them sooner ( don't tell anyone but i like my ducks more than my chickens)