They look to be domestic ducks this also explains why they were willingly around your kids. It very sad to think that someone would dump such precious things out into the wild but i happens. They are most likely mixed bred ducks due to colorations which is also why they might have been dumped.
Female cayugas do have white on their chest but from looking at it and the boldness that that white has I'm gonna say that it is a Blacks we dish Cayuga white is dull but get vibrant as it gets older like older
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I know how you feel Nate , I had a Cayuga duckling ( hatched from 2 Cayuga parents that I had hatched myself) and it looked like a black Swedish I'll have the pic up in a sec
Every domesticated duck came from mallards is what most believe . Every domesticated duck but the Muscovy is the same species , just diffrent breeds
The Muscovy duck is a while diffrent species make the babies produces from the in fertil if the other parent is anything but a Muscovy .
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