Recent content by Bolfreak

Well, I’ve learned then not to ask for opinions formed out of ignorance.

Thanks for making my point, you didn’t have to be a troll to get there. If I have liver spot Dalmatians it’s same species, same breed as black spot so I’d call it a Variety. It’s not a separate breed. The terms are interchangeable and in this case to me not important. In my original post I...

I don’t think that’s accurate here. You have Mallard based and Muscovy, same species, different breeds. Interbreeding isn’t important to color varieties because the offspring are sterile. By this logic Buff ducks would be three separate breeds and they’re not. Buff plus Buff gives any of three...

Like in turkeys, the “breed” is Turkey. The colors are varieties. There are Cayugas that aren’t Black, which genetically is impossible if Cayuga were a breed. So the breed here more represents a body type than a breed. My Cayugas tend to be a bit more body than my Buffs and lay greyish eggs. So...

The last three hatched today, a Buff, a very hopefully Lilac from a Cayuga egg and a Blue from a Cayuga egg (so should be male). Posting pics of the color progression of the Lilac, other than bill color she hatched dark and turned very yellow as she dries. I haven’t found ANY pictures online of...

Definitely a Blue. Keeping until I know if male or female. Dried picture with two Buffs and three Cayugas.

I currently have of breeding age 1 Cayuga and 2 Buff drakes (one light, one standard) as well as 4 Cayuga ducks and 1 Buff (light). The Standard Buff doesn’t seem to get any action as he’s usually muscled off by one of the other drakes, so it’s a possibility but remote. I was trying for sex...

I was answering the question from April 2024 specifically about PT testing. Some things change, like “selling from your farm” didn’t used to be required to test, but now it does for hatching and eating eggs as well as live birds. It’s the NPIP part that’s optional and doesn’t make a lot of sense...

https://tvmdl.tamu.edu/poultry/flock-owner-information/ Price is set by the tester and there is a county map of testers on the site. Looks like all eggs and birds need to be PT tested regardless of where you’re selling from and shows require this at the door. The NPIP program is optional.

Hope this helps. I signed up to train for testing for my own flock and others. Price is set by the tester and there’s a county map link thru this site as well. I believe this is different from NPIP which is optional. Would appreciate thoughts/opinions on the reasons for doing this combined with...

Posting this publicly. I checked the major hatcheries selling Cresteds, but only Metzer talks about breeding. Eggsnatcher’s link shows that Crested plus Crested equals a larger crest vs Crested plus Non. I don’t see how anyone would know that if so many died/had problems. Plus this breeder is a...

Good info @eggsnatcher ! I want to introduce the Crested to my flock and am curious if anyone has real, personal info instead of parroting and repeating the same stuff over and over and judging others who are willing to experiment. I have four Crested ducklings and am hoping for mainly...

Reviving this thread…it took me months to get lucky with a TSC that had them in their assortment. I have Cayugas and Buffs (going for blue and lilac SL ducks) and would like to add the Crest in. White x Cayuga = black bib (chance of crest). Buff x White = Blue Mallard (chance of crest), which is...

A crested blue mallard drake that was sweet (while we’re dreaming…). I have a hard time even finding pictures of colored Cresteds and hatcheries only have White ones (even though the APA only accepts White and Black). I’ve played with the color calculator a lot and might go down a path of...

Did you end up trying these crosses? I have an all Cayuga flock at the moment and was considering adding crested and buffs to get some crests in color.