Originally Posted by
Mendip
We used to keep Khaki Campbells when I was a kid. As you say, very good layers. I found that ducks have more entertaining personalities than chickens and would like to keep a few in our chicken run in Korat, but ducks just make too much mess for the size of our land.
Back in Somerset 45 odd years ago we ran a drake (Francis) with the Khaki Campbell ducks so the eggs were fertile. We usually put the duck eggs under broody bantams as the ducks were really bad mothers. Bantams made great mothers and cared not that ducklings hatched from the eggs they sat on.
Occasionally the broody bantams sat on goose eggs for us and could just fit one egg under each wing. The goslings were bigger than their mothers two weeks after hatching but still followed them around. It was quite comical.