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Sure does look how I remember mine looking. Lemme go look for some other pics of her

And then we all know how hard it is to take a picture that shows the actual color they are IRL. So there's that too. Lol.

Idk. Seems like when I look at pictures folks say are lilac there seems to be a lot of difference between them. So I'm not sure what they are *supposed* to look like. Here's a pic of mine from 2019 that Pyxis called liliac. She looks nothing like this anymore actually she has a lot of white now.

@WVduckchick Isn't that how you get lilac by blue and chocolate genes mixing?

Yeah.. not quite chocolate enough to be chocolate but not light enough for pastel. 🤪 Maybe liliac? 🤔

Imma LUV LUV LUVIN that silver dux! Hmm. That looks like my chocolate bibbed to me. It just don't have a full bib. 🤷🏼‍♀️ It's not pastel that's for sure.

Hey thanks for the reminder! I'm gonna try that this year.

I like to use a rubber bowl with a brick or rock in it at that age.

You just don't want them to have unsupervised access to any swimming water they cannot very easily get out of until they are fully feathered. The down doesn't waterproof as well as feathers and if they get too tired from swimming and waterlogged... Drowned duckling. With those temps though I...

Like Mare said.. Color doesn't tell ya a whole lot at that age because Drakes typically feather out in female looking plumage first. Then they have a juvinile molt and completely change.

Example of drake sounds (smokers cough)

A small girly quack between peeps while giggling.

Occasionally at that age when you pick one up and giggle it.. (That's what I call it) it will go from making a peep peep peep sound to a QUACK QUACK QUACK and you can be almost 100% sure that's a girl. As far as boys go, I don't throw on the towel until they start sounding like they have...

They are looking good to me!

I use chick grit 💁‍♀️

Oh whoops... 😂🤭 Sorry. Glad you aren't offended. Don't make no difference to me if you is a he she or they. I recon I just grouped you in with the rest of the duck chatting gals here. 😝

Cool! Thanks for the clarification. Yeah.. not all my pastels are as light as the others at hatch. That makes sense.

@WVduckchick I wonder if her "pastel" duckling could be dusky pastel. I don't see an eye stripe and I think that bill is too dark to be a pastel.

The duckling in my avatar picture is a pastel. An adult male pastel will be marked more like a gray.. only the head color will be a dull bluish gray instead of green. Ducklings will be kind of yellow with an eye stripe... And with the females they usually do kind of darken up as they mature.