Magpie Ducks

Magpie ducks are friendly, active foragers who lay a very good number of large eggs. In our experience, they use a nesting box more than other duck breeds and lay eggs longer into the fall season than other breeds.

We love the beautiful black and white cap and saddle pattern of the Magpies, their friendly personalities, how well they forage and the large number of eggs we collect from them throughout the spring, summer and even into the fall. Our Magpies lay their eggs first thing in the morning, and often in a nesting box, which is a huge bonus compared to many other duck breeds we’ve raised who either lay their eggs anywhere on the ground so the guardian dogs often find them before we do, or who hide a nest in order to hatch ducklings.

Our Magpies forage throughout the day, often working hard to clean pests from the pasture behind the cows and like all the ducks we’ve raised, they make sure to keep any standing water within their reach free from mosquito larvae – which means no itchy bites for us!

Though the Magpies all look similar to each other, there is variations in their pattern and that has been fun for our children, since they love to name each bird and they can easily distinguish the birds from each other by the color pattern. The pattern is also visible immediately when they hatch since their fluff has the same pattern each duckling will retain into adulthood.