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 Post subject: Age of sexual maturity
PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:56 am 
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Hope someone can help me........

I was given some ducklings in September (a pekin and two mixed breeds) and some ducks in december (silver appleyard trio) so I think they are about six months old. When they are wandering around during the day, my amorous drake will mount one of the ducks (and any chickens he can catch! :neutral: ). The ducks have just started laying too.

So I am wondering if the eggs would be ferile - my gut reaction is no, but I just wanted to..........check.

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 Post subject: Re: Age of sexual maturity
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Ducks are sexually mature at 20-24 weeks of age but improve fertility after 52 weeks

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 Post subject: Re: Age of sexual maturity
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Crikey, that's quick - I might have to separate them into different pens rather than let them all wander together!!
I thought that I would probably have untiil the spring, where they were about 9 months old.

Thanks for the info!


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 Post subject: Re: Age of sexual maturity
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Ducks mature very quick I have had a duck hatch eggs at 6 months old


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 Post subject: Re: Age of sexual maturity
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So I popped a couple of eggs into the old incubator and lo and behold - a couple of ducklings! Lovingly named Roly and Poly they are very cute! So that answers my question woohoo4


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 Post subject: Re: Age of sexual maturity
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I have had fertile teal eggs from a 5 month old drake and fertile eggs from 3 different call drakes at 6 months so not too rare just depends on the flock and good diet I think


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What breed of teal do you keep tealandcallducks?


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 Post subject: Re: Age of sexual maturity
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The breed is teal? You mean what colours?I have green wing, chestnut, blue wing and a pied in the grey, what colours do you have?


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Your not in australia then? I have grey teal and chestnut.


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Teals&calls how well do your greenwings breed? Mine only had two ducklings this year which was a lot less than that last year, not sure why because the two ducks layed plenty of eggs


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