We have fertile hatching eggs available for pickup and mailing as well as ducklings for local pickup! You can email us to let us know how many ducklings to hold for you from our next hatch or order the eggs on the store from the link above. Here’s our email: starwaterducks@gmail.com

Cayuga ducks have an interesting and sometimes unclear history…covered in dozens of other places.

Starwater Farm is more interested in the future of these wonderful ducks. They are more than just a meat or ornament duck to us. We adore them for their unique eggs, their multi-colored sheen, and their hilarious personalities.

Starwater farm’s first baby born on the farm

These black ducks have captured our hearts from the moment our first Cayuga hatched out in our kitchen. We were lucky to get 4 friendly little ducklings from that first hatch, and I mean they were really friendly. Like way more friendly than any ducklings in my past. Well, it turns out it wasn’t just a batch of friendly ducks but is instead every batch of Cayugas. We currently have a batch in the bathroom. Yes we have an outdoor brooder but dang these ducklings are just so friendly and curious that I can’t get enough of them!

If you look hard, you’ll see the small black cause of all the chaos in this picture.

There are a few rumors going on about Cayugas that I would like to help clear up, feel free to comment if the standard changed and we didn’t keep up.

Cayuga duck eggs are not always black. Ducks have multiple periods of laying eggs throughout the year. At the start of every laying season a Cayuga duck will normally lay black or dark grey eggs, however, as the laying season progresses the eggs will get lighter and lighter. Sometimes they end up light grey, sometimes even a creamy color.
As a Cayuga ducks ages, they often get some white feathers on them. This continues as they age until there is a pretty goodly amount of white where there used to be black. This is normal but preferably starts well past a year old.
The graceful white feathers of an aging Cayuga duck are completely different than juvenile white feathers. If they grow into their feathers with much white immediately, then maybe don’t use that duck for egg hatching.

Here’s the quackers:

This is Black Jack. Him and the next three ducks all hatched out of eggs that we purchased from a nice fellow near Tampa, FL. He hurt his leg once and became Flap Jack. He gets along with his brother very well.

Ace always looks happy and proud. I would too if I were as pretty as her. Now that she’s all grown up and through her teenage phase, she is a total girl’s girl and loves to hang out with her Mama again! She lays awesome eggs that look like the moon. It’s like she knew that she lives on the Space Coast. 🌚

These 5 ducks were raised together. Apple and his 5 girls; Cider, Juice, iDuck, Sauce, and Jax. Apple and Cider have moved to the original coop now that they’re all grown up and the other 4 girls have quickly become buddies with the other adult Cayugas. These girls are from Metzer and we can’t wait to see what color their eggs are!

Wednesday is Ace’s sister and closest friend. She absolutely refuses to be banded- somehow always managing to bend and twist her foot right back out through the hole as soon as we walk away. Luckily I could never not know which duck is her since she never leaves her sister’s side as they spend most of their time as near our house as they can get quacking for peas day in and day out.