Mendip calls

22/01/2024

🐓🐓🐓🐓👀 for a New🏡

Last year a good friend of mine supplied me with a few Gold Top hens.
This particular breed of hen in my opinion are one of the best for hatching call ducks, they sit like rocks and make great mothers. 💪🏻😁
He has just informed me that there are about a dozen up for new post codes this year and available now.
I know these hens won’t be around for long.
Pm if interested and I will pass on the details.
Collection will be from Wells, Somerset, UK

19/01/2024

❄️Brrrrr🥶🥶🥶❄️ it was cold this morning at the pond .
But I was rewarded with one of the Butterscotch drakes giving me his best pose. 🦆🦆
We think, we may of made our new housing for our 🦆🦆 a little bit too comfortable for them 🤣🤣 someone has decided to start laying which is very early, this year 🪺🪺🪺
Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 this cold weather ❄️❄️🥶 will put a stop to them.

06/01/2024

2 appleyard call ducks looking for new post code bs39 area Pm for more details

03/01/2024

Wow we have been blown away with the amount of positive interest in our setup, so I thought I would do a quick post on the new sheds, because we have had so many questions, so here is a quick run through of it.

First of all the water clarity, this is because we are fortunate to have 3 springs that run through our pond.
The nest boxes, we have 5 nest boxes for the ducks and one for the feed but inside the main roof we have individual, lift up lids so we don’t disturb a duck that is sat on eggs.
After she has sat for a period of time and she is settled we put the partitions in the runs, with a slide in door at the front.
This is done, not only to keep the duck in but it stops the drake from hassling her plus keeps the rats out.
Then we have astro turf and a shallow water tray for the duck and ducklings after they hatch.
From there they get transported to a bigger pen.
That's the theory, I hope this has answered some of questions that we have received 😁

Thank you, for your continued support and love for what we enjoying doing 🦆🦆

01/01/2024

01/01/2024

This year Dave and I decided to run ours in flocks rather than having them penned individually, so we gave Cambrook Construction a bit of a challenge.
I told Chris I wanted 6 nesting boxes with partitions which I can put into the sheds as the duck go broody, they needed to be on legs and i would do the rest lol 💪🏻🤣
So here we have the 5 new sheds with the ducks penned and ready for this years season.

28/10/2023

Here we have a few of our young abbacotts , bred this year , looking absolutely stunning and ready for the upcoming breeding season

24/09/2023

Appleyard call ducks this years hatch looking for new pond.pm if intrested
Ba3 bath area

19/09/2023

These young abacot ducks are just starting to show their ginger heads

17/09/2023

Pied calls looking for new pond

10/09/2023

This time of year is one of the best to see the young ducks molting out to reveal their new colours and the older ducks maturing well

17/06/2023

One of the best sights to see is a mother and her young, even the gold tops are proving their worth

15/05/2023

Calls looking for new post codes.
All from show quality blood lines
2 trios of mallard
2 pair of pied
1 pair of black bibbed
Ba3 area Pm if interested

04/05/2023

Not call ducks but we have finally managed to hatch some lovely gold tops ready for sitting next year

23/04/2023

Nice little magpie sat on a clutch, fingers crossed they hatch ok

18/02/2023

This is the best and most exciting time of year to watch the gold tops and calls themselves, they are sitting on eggs now the waiting begins

05/02/2023

Some cracking mallard just chilling out this morning

03/02/2023

First pair of calls just starting to lay and one incubator is on

24/01/2023

Last few pairs and singles looking for new post code.
PM if intrested
BA3 BATH AREA
1 x Pair of whites
1 x Pair abacotts
1 x Pair black bibbed
2 x Pair pied
1 x butterscotch duck
1 x black bibbed duck

23/01/2023

Springs on its way

21/01/2023

Magpie drake showing some maturity now.
Fingers crossed for some shows this year

07/01/2023

Some of our abacots.
Jed Dwight give us the masters thoughts

07/01/2023

Can't resist some nice photos of some ducks just chilling