What the Duck?

It all started innocently enough, my Grandmother said, "you know, our duck eggs aren't fertile."

That's odd I thought, we have two pair. Oh well, maybe they haven't gotten into the swing of things yet. 

One pair of khaki Campbell ducks I have had for 5 years. They have had one successful hatching of a clutch.

The other pair is the adult daughter of the first pair.

I recently got her a boyfriend from friends of ours. 

He's an Indian Runner and I named him Emerald.

The daughter duck is young so, my thought was she hadn't gotten 

into mating yet and that was all that was going on.

A few days later I pulled up in the driveway and parked. I stopped still, sitting in the car not sure what I was seeing.

Momma duck was trying to mate with daughter duck, daddy duck was chasing away the boyfriend duck (Emerald) who was trying to stop this odd act. 

"Huh!"

I said aloud to myself in the car.

Now, I have seen sexually frustrated male ducks try to mate with anything, 

(My aunts handbag once)

I have seen girl ducks do a dominance thing and hold down other girls to remind them who was in charge.

But I had never seen a hen trying to breed another hen. 

Obviously, I have some sexually confused ducks.

I could see the look in Emerald's eyes, "What kind of family did you put me with?" he seemed to say to me.

Now, I don't have any interest in anyone's sexual orientation. Keep it to your self and I'm good. 

It's your business.

However when we are talking about ducks that I'm planning on breeding to raise the extra ducks to sell, and have more eggs to sell, 

well then,  we've got a problem!

This isn't going to fly with me.

(no pun intended)

So, what to do?

Well, I'm pretty sure I'm going to get some new ducks.

Some friends of ours raise Appleyard ducks. That is a  dual purpose breed for eggs and meat.

I'm planning on getting a few more Khaki Campbells as egg layers.

But you can bet on one thing, I am not letting my confused crew raise the next batch of babies. 

Nope, I'm going to raise them myself, and maybe they will have better sense.

As for what to do with my messed up duck family? I'm not sure. Should I let them live out their lives on the farm,

or will they end up in the stew pot?

stay tuned to find out.

One thing for sure, I'm going to find Emerald a new girlfriend. I at least owe him that.