Call Ducks

Call Ducks are very small ducks. Males weigh only 19 to 25 oz (550 to 700g); females 15 1/2 to 21 oz(450 to 600g.)

They are very chatty ducks. They start quacking very early in the day, and practically quack non-stop the rest of the day, with a loud, high pitched quack that travels far. Because of this, they were used by duck hunters as "bait" to call wild ducks in. You'd tether them and set them out to float in a river or pond, and let their quacks invite other ducks to drop in. (This has now been replaced, of course, by plastic decoys and a duck quacker you blow through.)

Their plumage comes in 10 different colours: Apricot, Bibbed, Black, Blue Fawn, Dark Silver, Magpie, Mallard, Pied, Silver and White. Males will have a dark head, neck and tail. White Call Ducks have yellow legs, beak and skin.

Despite their loud quack, they have short bills.

For culinary purposes, they are better for meat rather than eggs. They lay only 50 to 70 eggs a year, and the white-shelled eggs are smallish, just 45 to 50g.

The ducks can start breeding at 7 to 8 months old.
Call Ducks are considered native to Belgium. They have been raised there since at least 1850.

Also called:

Abacot Ranger Ducks, Allier White Ducks, Ancona Ducks, Appleyard Ducks, Australian Spotted Ducks, Aylesbury Duck, Black East Indies Ducks, Bourbourg Duck, Call Ducks, Campbells Duck, Canvasback Duck, Cayuga Duck, Challans Duck, Coast Ducks, Crested Ducks, Danish Black White-Breasted Duck, Dark Rouen Duck, Duclair Ducks, Eider Ducks, Elizabeth Ducks, Estaires Duck, Forest Duck, Germanata Veneta Ducks, Gimbsheim Ducks, Golden Cascade Ducks, Gressingham Duck, Haut-Volant Ducks, Herve Ducks, Hook Bill Ducks, Huttegem Duck, Idegem Duck, Indian Runner Duck, Kaiya Duck, Laplaigne Ducks, Magpie Ducks, Magret, Merchtem Duck, Mini Ducks, Mule Duck, Muscovy Duck, Naked-Neck Ducks, Nantes Ducks, Orpington Ducks, Overberg Ducks, Pekin Duck, Pommern Ducks, Rouen Duck, Saxony Ducks, Semois Duck, Silky Ducks, Swedish Blue Duck, Swedish Yellow Duck, Termonde Duck, Tsaiya Duck, Vouillé Duck, Welsh Harlequin Ducks

Bustards, Chicken, Cornish Game Hen, Goose, Guinea Fowl, Parson's Nose, Poussin, Quail, Turkeys

Affettati, Beef, Goat, Minced Meat, Offal, Pork, Sausages, Sheep, Steak, Steak