Silver Call Ducks

These are a particularly colourful breed of duck - perhaps my favourite of the Calls - as I think these photos illustrate.

Group of Silvers A group of 2001 hatched silver Calls preening in and around their pond

We have had a funny breeding season with them this year. The first eggs went into the incubator but unfortunately very few hatched, and those which did were nearly all drakes. We had a good hatch in mid June, with more ducks than drakes so the balance is now fairly even. In the middle of August we were very surprised to see our oldest silver duck, flying down into the Apricot Calls' pen, marching into their hut and promptly laying an egg. She laid nine in total and hatched all of them so we now have plenty of late ducklings!
Father





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Son

On the left, is our original stock drake who won his class at the Scottish National in 2000 and won Best Silver 2001





2000 Hatched silver duck, 2nd in her class at the Scottish National 2001.




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