Ducklings: Golden Cascade

Golden Cascades are an all-around backyard duck: calm, hardy and busy foragers that lay well and still carry a good amount of meat. The breed was developed in Oregon by Dave and Millie Holderread in the late 1970s and introduced in 1984, and our hatchery partner's breeding flock came straight from the Holderreads in 2025.

Ducklings are a warm fawn and buff with golden highlights. As they grow, the drakes develop a chestnut chest, a cream to tan underside and a brownish head with a soft green sheen, while the ducks stay fawn to buff with fine brown penciling and a stripe across the face. Both show a green or brown wing speculum. The color difference makes it easier to tell drakes from ducks early. The breeder reports 165 to 240 eggs a year, and Golden Cascades handle both heat and cold well.

Our ducks will fully integrate with all the other breeds that we offer. If you want purebred ducklings hatching from your ducks, make sure you separate your ducks by breed during the mating season. Or you can let your ducks cross and see what different shapes and colors you will get with their ducklings.

Shipping Info:

• Although your waterfowl order will need to be picked up from your local post office, please provide us with your physical address when placing your order. We cannot accept P.O. Box numbers for orders.
• The minimum order of day-old ducklings shipped to Rhode Island is 12 due to Rhode Island state law.
• Waterfowl are hatched and shipped on Mondays through Thursdays of the shipment week that you choose at checkout.
• Unfortunately, due to the importing regulations in those states, we cannot ship ducklings to Hawaii and the U.S. territories.

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