Buff Ducklings

The Buff Duck is calm duck breed often considered a dual purpose breed, laying good quantities of eggs and giving a clean appearing carcass because of their light colored feathers. Our Buff Ducklings are of average show quality.

We have Buff Ducklings for sale from February to November.
American Poultry Association Class: Medium Duck Class
American Livestock Breeds Conservancy Conservation Status: Threatened

Production: Buff ducks lay a white or tinted egg. Buff ducks are for both eggs and meat but they are best at duck egg laying. typically laying about 130-180 duck eggs per year that are between 80-90 grams. Buff Ducks gain weight relatively rapidly, making Buff Ducks ready for market within 8-10 weeks. Many consider the Buff Ducks a good meat bird that dresses out well because Buff Ducks light pin feathers do not show on the plucked carcass. Despite this, Buff numbers languished when industry growers followed consumer interest in cheap meat and focused attention on the faster growing Pekin even though many believe it to be less tasty. Our buff ducks are between 5-6.25 pounds. Buff Ducks do not go broody.
Standard Weights Old Drake 8 lbs. Old Duck 7 lbs. Young Drake 7 lbs. Young Duck 6 lbs.
Color The drake and hen are colored the same with the exception of the drake?s head which is a beautiful seal-brown matched against the soft buff color of the rest of the duck.
History William Cook, the famous poultry breeder from Orpington, Kent, blended Cayuga, Runner, Aylesbury, and Rouen ducks to create a buff colored duck that would allow him to cash in on the early 20th century English fad for buff-colored plumage. This first duck was called a Buff Orpington and Cook went on to develop Blue, Black and Chocolate Orpington versions that had white bibs on their chests. Cook introduced his Buff Orpington to the United States in 1908 at the Madison Square Garden Show in New York City. In 1914, this breed was admitted into the American Standard of Perfection under the name "Buff," which is unusual since in no other instance is a color used as a breed name. A Blue variety of Orpington duck existed in the Americas, but it appears these were absorbed into the Blue Swedish breed. Developed in England introduced to the States in the early 1900s These ducks are also called Buff Orpington ducks because they originated from the famous Orpington Farms in England. This is the same home of the well known Orpington Breed of chickens.