The Complete Guide to Duck Breeds-PART ONE

I obviously don't own every domestic duck breed out there, but one day I hope to!
In the meantime, if you guys have any questions about other breeds and their uses I would be more than happy to answer!
Enjoy!

[@adamfrank1630]

I don't know why, I just love ducks.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

Me too! They're so cute and entertaining

[@moonlit7273]

@@QuackProductionsChanneli couldnt have said it any better 😭💖

[@toddvincent266]

I live in a gated lame community an hour south of Chicago. Last week i had a blue swedish, magpie, and 2 kahki's show up after work. After feedkng them trout chow, the remained until morning and the entire day as my wife continued feeding them. Next night after work i went to a supply store, got a 50# bag of duck food. Today is 8 days later and i am converting an old 8x4 wood bin into an enclosure. They feed by hand, allow petting, leave at night and arrive back around 5:15, 15 minutes before i leave for work. We are loving these 4 ladies. No sign of eggs yet, so assuming were all chicks this spring.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

awww that’s so sweet! i’m sure they’re so grateful for the food you’re giving them! I wonder where they came from? are you planning on keeping them long term? sometimes stress and malnourishment can keep them from laying so you may see eggs sooner than you think!

[@toddvincent266]

Hope to keep them long term. Have all the supplies to make the coop tomorrow. The swedish likes to be petted, the campbells seem to pick on the magpie, which is my favorite. I tried kale, lettuce, chopped grapes, watermelon, minnows, worms, and peas. Peas so far being their favorite. Any other suggestions?

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

@@toddvincent266 I'd say you're already giving them a gourmet buffet! I like to cut up a watermelon, scrape some of the insides out and fill it with frozen veggies mixed with the scooped out watermelon. It's my duck's favorite summer treat!

[@duckzncatz]

Thank you for giving them a new home. Someone dumped all of them :( for sure

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

I love taking in rescues. They're often very loving and it's very sad to me that someone would just abandon them :(

[@brendabrown5996]

Most of your ducks seem calm when you held them , You must spend a lot of time with your ducks! Great video.Do you sell your fertile eggs for hatching?

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

Honestly it depends on which duck I'm holding😅they're just really well behaved for the camera, and I give them lots of treats afterwards. I actually don't handle them very often because I got most of them in large groups as ducklings and they imprinted on each other instead of me. I'm currently incubating two eggs so that I can have two companion ducks who will be super friendly and who I can film with and take on adventures, so I'm really excited about that. I haven't sold my eggs yet because I'm not an expert at determining fertility yet and I don't want to sell people bad eggs, but I'm definitely considering it in the future when I'm more experienced!

[@gisellemedina2513]

Which would you consider to be the quietest among the females? We want to get egg laying ducks but we are in the burbs and they need to be quieter. I’ve had muscovies before so I’d like to try something else

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

I would say in my own experience my Cayugas have been the quietest, right next to my muscovies. My runners are usually pretty quiet but sometimes when they go adventuring around the yard they make excited squeaking noises lol.

[@TheReviewPigeon]

Awesome video showcasing a good amount of backyard duck breeds. I was looking at combining 1-2 ducks with some chickens as long as everyone got along.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

thank you! I also included a part two of the breeds that I don’t have! I used to have chickens along with my ducks and they never seemed to have any issues with each other. they did sleep in different places but they all free ranged together during the day and I never had any issues!

[@toddvincent266]

I finished a 9x4 house for them, 4' tall at the back, 40" in the front, 8x4 lid opens, with 2 front doors 30" tall, and 46" wide. Has top side vents, Any idea on how to get tbem in there? Tried traing their fav. Veggies and fruit.. Fail.. Tried fencing to force herd them, wouldnt go near the fencing...

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

@@toddvincent266 it's all in the bribe. I feed my ducks in the morning but I don't leave food out all day, they just forage. But they're spoiled and like pellets a lot more so in the evening I toss a couple scoops of pellets in their coop and they all sprint right in. You just have to create scarcity and lure them with treats.

[@toddvincent266]

Makes sense.. I was hoping to avoid a large meal before bed or in a coup as ive read that just makes for a messy neasty house. Lol

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

@@toddvincent266 Yes definitely. My ducks don't have food or water in their coop. Just one scoop to get them in, and the scoop disappears in roughly 30 seconds so no mess!

[@moonlit7273]

Theyre all adorable :) i hope youre sleeping well with that many ducks! 🦆

[@jaanpakhi1591]

Thank you for your good information. Im from Bangladesh.

[@richardnhimbe5144]

I was more enchanted by the narrating lady than the ducks. Real beautiful, I had to subscribe to get close, and stay close. All the way from Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa. Hello.

[@jase123111]

I kept many ducks, but my favourite every are the Campbell ducks... with the white variety looking the most beautiful. I loved white ducks with yellow bills, but I found the Pekin ducks got too big and too fat and got leg problems when they were older. The smaller Campbell ducks were much more nice to look at in my opinion... and WOW... you will never be short of duck eggs!! They also when broody and raised their own ducklings fine too.. which the Pekin ducks rarely if ever do.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

Yes I LOVE my khakis! They're definitely the loudest, but they're so cute and they lay so many eggs! I have a few Pekins and accidentally ended up with one Jumbo and my Jumbo has really bad leg problems, so I swore I wouldn't buy any of them again because its too sad to see them hurting

[@roslyndrayton6716]

The mystery 2 ducks, I think they maybe Welsh Harlequins? maybe.

[@reedranch7723]

Your ducks are so beautiful!

[@williamconnolly2152]

Welsh Harlequin?

[@WhisperFarm]

My ducks are having green dropping what can I use to treat them

[@oscartheduckwhisperer9724]

Are Indian runner ducks loud? As I was thinking of getting a few

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

my girls are pretty quiet! The only thing they do that is noisy is one of them likes to forage along the fence line of our yard and she'll make a continuous squeaking noise while she's doing that but other than that my khaki campbells are by far the loudest.

[@oscartheduckwhisperer9724]

@@QuackProductionsChannel thanks that’s helpful 👍 and what breeds do you recommend for a back garden?

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

@@oscartheduckwhisperer9724 I would say it depends on how close you are to your neighbors. My quietest ducks are probably my Cayuga females, but I've also heard that Muscovy ducks are the quietest of all the breeds. Hope this was helpful!

[@oscartheduckwhisperer9724]

@@QuackProductionsChannel thanks it was

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

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[@jackzhimo6460]

Lovely. You are perfect for duck 😍

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

Thank you!

[@morehn]

Do pekins really have problems from growing too fast?

[@duckzncatz]

Those 2 babies have the double rouen eye lines.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

😉maybe someday soon i’ll do an adult reveal

[@duckzncatz]

@@QuackProductionsChannel We have a lot of ducks at my apartment complex. I didn't know much about ducks until we moved here 2yrs ago and I had to learn a lot quickly because I had to rehab a duckling

[@lamarcorlis2081]

Really loved this video being a new duck owner, I have 5 and picked 1 of each, I have Pekin, Rouen, Swedish Black, Khaki Campbell and Silver Appleyard, I hope I at least have 1 drake especially the Black Swedish or Rouen, I love the green heads, very informative video thanks😊 EDIT: well I lost my little Appleyard but ended up getting a Blue Swedish and Cayuga, I have 5 boys and 1 girl

[@sandykl]

Wow!! You have so many breeds altogether !!! 💙 how do you distinguish how many eggs each duck lays. I’ve read that they can lay eggs in random spots, just curious how you keep track.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

with so many females (32 I believe), it’s really hard to keep track of who’s laying what. they all pretty much lay their eggs in the coop in the middle of the night, although a few lay them in specific spots in the yard. they’ve dug little nests next to the fence on the sides of the yard and they’ll lay eggs in there. most of them have a favorite laying spot so I just have to make sure to check those every day :)

[@lanarena5485]

Is their anyway you can tell the breed of my two ducklings? Please let me know how I can send you two pictures to know.

[@Ditchbangerboysyt]

hi! i would like to get some ducks in the spring i am getting 2 pekins and a mallard as a chick but mallards and rouen ducks look super simaler and i dont want to end up with a rouen duck. how would i tell the difference between ducklings?

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

If you buy them from an online hatchery, or a breeder, they will clip one back toe off of the mallard ducklings so that if they were to get into the wild, park services would be able to identify it as a domestic mallard. The rouens have both of their back toes intact

[@Ditchbangerboysyt]

@@QuackProductionsChannel thank you i think i am getting them from a place called federated co ops but as a last resort it would have to be tractor supply do they do that?

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

In the spring tractor supply does usually carry ducklings, from what I've seen different locations receive different breeds. For example, the one near me had Pekins, Khaki Campbell, blue Swedish and rouen. Your best bet would probably be to buy them online. Tractor Supply, Purely Poultry, and Metzer Farms all sell ducklings. Some even sell them year round.

[@Ditchbangerboysyt]

@@QuackProductionsChannel ok thank you!

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

@@Ditchbangerboysyt of course!

[@docxy7331]

Neat

[@jbid9999]

Thanks

[@NKellyMullen]

Good job!

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

thank you!!

[@baylee_baby_]

Ordered some assorted ducks from TSC and have 0 clue what they are even after this video the markings say Rouen, but the colors of the 2 types of ducks aren't the same so I dunnnoooo haha

[@basemkaouk7751]

Good video Can we breed different species together

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

If you're talking about the different duck breeds then yes. However, if you breed any domestic duck with a Muscovy, the offspring will be sterile and will not be able to have babies. For example, though, you could breed a Pekin and a Cayuga, or an Indian Runner and a Rouen and you would just get some interesting looking ducks who could still bear offspring

[@alahem23]

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[@thijsstar9707]

The Ducks You Don't Know Which breed of ducks it is The Overberg duck was created by crossing Krombek, Danish Campbell, Streicher, Welsh Harlequin, Gimbsheimer and Orpington ducks. It is still a fairly young variety, a creation of Hans Ringnalda from Overberg. It is a cozy and healthy duck, with its own color pattern. The drake has a light lilac-blue head, which is bordered by a closed white neck ring. The chest and flanks are mahogany. The transom and tail are the same color as the head. The male has a yellow bill. The female is lighter in color and has a blue bill.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

Wow thats really interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[@davemandel9411]

Rouen ducklings, buff crosses,do you have any call ducks?

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

I don't but I would absolutely love to have some one day! I think they're absolutely adorable

[@dr.heiter7002]

Welsh harlequin??

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

Welsh Harlequin is in part 2! the link is pinned in the comments of this video!

[@dr.heiter7002]

@@QuackProductionsChannel awesome!! There one of my favorites!!

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

@@dr.heiter7002 they're so cute! I don't have any but I definitely want a few one day!

[@judylloyd7901]

@@dr.heiter7002 They're*

[@dr.heiter7002]

@@judylloyd7901 Wow u must be very lonely 🖕🤣

[@finallyfriday.]

Nice video. Check out Silver Appleyard duck.

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

I love Silver Appleyards! I have a boy named Apple and he's such a great duck

[@darrinstamand]

Buff breed

[@Tsubahi]

(shudder) 😒

[@youniqueboutique2134]

Your Mallard ducks do not fly away?

[@QuackProductionsChannel]

No! I raised Mouse from a duckling so she recognized our yard as her home and food source so she never flew away

[@youniqueboutique2134]

@@QuackProductionsChannel We want so much to let our Mallards out, but concerned they will fly away. Not for selfish reason. We are understanding they probably will not survive if they do.