We use a month-to-month reservation system. Babies can be reserved here following the announcement of availability via our monthly newsletter. Once reserved they can be picked up on the farm in Accokeek, MD the 3rd Sunday of each month April - September from 9am-2pm.
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Christmas/Chanukkah Harvest: Dec 18
Reserve your fresh birds below. Payment is due at time of pick-up based on the final dressed weight of the birds (see the details below for average weights). You may come by to pick up your birds on Sunday, December 18th from 11am - 4:30pm or Monday between 5pm -8pm. Please do not reserve birds you don't intend to pick up otherwise some families may miss out.
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Muscovy Trio $50
Date of Hatch: 12/2013 (Drake 10/2012)
Point of Lay: 5/2013
Point of Lay: 5/2013
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'Spot' Ancona girl
This is Spot. I adopted this Ancona girl last summer with Houdini Duck when she was about 3 months old. She's a very quiet duck, a bit shy, but still on the sweet side. She also throws just the most beautiful babies! Of all the duck eggs I set in the incubator this year, she and my Welsh Harlequin girl had the best hatch rate (85%!) when bred with Duck Dogers, my WH drake.
She has the cutest black and orange feet! Her eggs are white with a nice large oval shape, hard to tell from my Runners, Campbells and Harlequin.
The Ancona averages 6 to 6.5 pounds and is a bit stockier than its close relative, the Magpie duck. It's a hardy, adaptable, all-purpose duck and an excellent layer of about 210-280 white, cream, or blue eggs yearly. These ducks are well suited for situations where they can forage for some of their food and are capable of eating large "banana" slugs.
"They make excellent pond or yard ducks since they tend to stay close to home, do not fly under normal conditions and are large enough so that they are less likely to be preyed upon by winged predators. Typically they have moderately calm temperaments and make fine pets." (Holderread 2001, 52)
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  This is an example of what he should look like when he's grown |
  This is an example of the egg color of FBCM |
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