Indeed there is what is “right”, then there is what is right for your market and after that there is what is right for the law.

In this case you have the law to adhere to and the market to please, both trump what is good enough for personal use.

Generally the 300 Goldens and the Khaki can be seen as equivalents.

I would say that for a small back yard flock 4-20ish ducks Khaki Campbells make a great choice. But the claim they lay 300 days a year is a bit grayed. If you have a flock you will likely get eggs on average 300 days a year, but that doesn’t’ mean you get an egg per bird 300 days a year. I would if pushed say most Khakis lay about 240-260 eggs a year, which is DAMN respectable but to hold up an exceptional bird as the average has been done a long time with this breed and I find it misleading.

Golden 300s and the White version there of tend to average 280 eggs a year and also will have the exceptional animals reach and exceed 300, hence the name. Yes they are a hybrid but the off spring are just as productive and great birds. The only thing you loose with the F2s is the ability to sex chicks at birth by color of feathers. This soon rectifies itself though! The females still look the same and the males still look mostly like Swedish Drakes.

20 eggs on average is not a lot more but if you run 100 ducks or more for money 20×100=2000 exta eggs a year, in business you plan to the average not to the exceptional. 2000 ÷ 12 = 166 dozen eggs!

I sell at 7 dollars a dozen, so that is about 1160 dollars of profit lost if my girls are 20 eggs shorter on average per year, for a small flock that is hard to swallow if you don’t have to and by that point you are talking money that is all profit. If you are keeping a dozen or two and just selling surplus to pay for feed, it won’t matter. If you are keeping 6-8 for personal consumption it won’t matter.

Next is egg size, the 300s lay a bigger egg and are more consistent with size. Not just Khaki but all my girls will shoot out a huge egg one day, a normal one the next and at times smallish ones. The real small ones Dorothy puts aside for me, as usual the farmer takes for his consumption what is least marketable. My customers do not care if some variation occurs, it is fun and quirky to them.

But we are now selling to chefs they want consistency in size so every dish is similar and looks the same on a plate. So when we sell to chefs we remove exceptionally large or small eggs but once our hybrids kick in and start paying off their feed debt that should change things and make our lives easier.

Basically I see Khakis as great back yard birds for small flocks and the 300 is really an improved Khaki that lays more, lays more consistently, lays more consistent sized eggs, lays bigger eggs and it quite a bit calmer around people.