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MUSCOVY Ducks have arrived! We are now the proud owners of both Black and Silver (Blue) Muscovy ducks! We hope to have our first hatch of ducklings Spring 2009. And our first Duck Thanksgiving dinner this year! They are growing beautifully! What crazy mellow and beautiful ducks!! We are keeping them in the horse Paddock, and the flies went from voracious to almost nill in days!

We just had our first 4 males 'processed'. the smallest weighed 5.6# Cleaned and bagged...and the largest was 6.10#, cleaned and bagged! Huge birds! and next year, when we feed them up properly, I can only imagine! We are excited about these birds! We will be offering a small number of breeding stock, once we establish our flock. Please check back often!

Indian Runner Ducks

This is Romeo, our original Runner Drake. He is Black, and has the most amazing Beetle green Sheen I have ever seen. In the sun, he also has beautiful shades of deep blue and purple. This is not a feather color, it is refracted light.

Prices for Muscovy meat ducks, Indian Runner Ducks and Silver Appleyard Ducks:

Day old to 1 week: $10 per bird (unsexed)

8days to 6 months: $15-50 per bird (unsexed, although older birds will start showing signs of gender)

Adult birds: $ 25-50 per bird

Australian Spotted Banty Ducks: $10 ducklings and $30-75 per adult

Since we are a very small operation, we prefer to sell locally and do at the farm pick ups.

Indian Runner and Silver Appleyard Ducks

Indian Runner Ducks are some of the most comical birds I have ever seen. I literally laughed out loud, when I first saw them in the Holderread's waterfowl catalog! Shortly after, my son did the same. He was in the other room, and I heard him giggle. I asked him what he was giggling about, and he said, "This duck stands up like a human!"; that did it, we had to have some! We called Holderread's, and reserved a pair. We have spent hours watching them run around the paddocks and gobble apples and grass. They stick close to the geese, in a little funny flock. They are a crack up, and a great addition to MoonFire Farm.

Snowy Ducks! Here a group of Runner and our Silver Appleyard Drake Ponder the snow...

Some interesting information about Indian Runners:**These adorable bowling pins on feet, can lay up to 250 eggs per year!!! That is as many as my best laying hens (chicken)!!! **They were first imported into Europe almost two hundred years ago.

**They had been found in the East Indies,(where they get their present name) but were referred to as ‘Penguin Ducks’ by some.

Our Waterfowl flock has changed quite a bit, as some of the neighbor dogs, decided, duck and goose was on the menu. Romeo's original mate was taken by a coyote, and he now has some new girls. We have 2 females and 1 male Runner/Appleyard cross ducks now...Wow are they cute!

Here are our first Silver Appleyard pair. They are just beautiful! and funny, chunky waddlers too!

Our American Geese are with them

These little Duck, are some of our favorites! They came from Holderread's Waterfowl Farm, as many of our birds have. They are personable, friendly and they fly like crazy! We were not prepared for that, so they live in our neighbors huge pond, but come home twice daily, when they hear me in the barn. They get scratch treats, and it keeps them coming home daily. We are really looking forward to ducklings this Spring!!