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Guys, calm down. They were mixed ducks of mixed ducks and it's okay. I'm getting rid of most of them (keeping the tamest, favourite one), because I want purebreds.

I know. I appreciate the suggestions :D Not trying to be rude to anyone if anyone felt that way, I appreciate everyone's help.

It's fine. I don't really wish to spend that amount of money right now and I probably will just get some other pure breeds anyways and use those for hatching.

I may use them for meat, and get 5 buffs that look beautiful- 1 drake, 4 hens. And I would never label mixeds as pures... But the market for pures is HUGE here since there are so few pures, people pay lots.

Here are her adult ducks. Looks like I may have gotten mixed breeds. Mine look so pure, at least the hens: here are my duck hens

I have Holderread's book, and I can't find much for help in there. At least, in regards to this problem. I find it difficult to know what is going on here. Saxony ducks are usually a saxony color, not so much a light tan, right? Hers looked like the Saxony version of a Rouen Claire.

I can get some. And can I breed the drake back to a Rouen and eventually retain the blue fawn gene while basically having an ALMOST purebred Rouen?

Silver grey. Cumberland blue. Yes, that's about right. But if the Saxony x Rouen made a white bird, then how could the same cross make three BFs out of maybe 10 ducklings?

Okay, so one lady had a Saxony x Rouen and it was white, somehow. The lady's Runners were grey (silver grey, not brown grey) and the other had "a little brown on it". The Saxony was light tan. She said that she has never had a Blue Fawn Rouen, either. Who's got any ideas?

I'm sorry everyone. This thread just isn't as simple as I hoped. Let's not fight. Anyways, I just texted the breeder. Waiting for a response....

I don't have a trout phased duck. Also Rouens don't come in trout, and I'm not too keen on cross breeding. In my area there's high profit from pure breds, since there's very few.

Sorry, was that Chinese? :P I don't understand this special talk. I don't go down to specifics. Not all of the ducklings were a silver phase. By silver phase, I mean blue fawn- they had light silver down sections where the others had yellow, and the black markings remained the same.

I can ask the breeder. I can ask her more about the Saxony later too. She had 6 week old ducklings with a Saxony cross, the Saxony hen (may have) brooded those, but she died at least during the hatching period, maybe when they were born. The breeder may have used an incubator, I'm not sure. As...

Lol sorry. I don't pay the best attention to little details! My bad! :P

Lol! No, probably not. My instagram is private. I have 2 Rouens, and 2 (Blue Fawn?) Rouens. Might add Muscovies to the mix and just build them a temporary outside pen for at night, and let them free range during the day. (don't want mule ducks) Off topic, but anyway, nope, no Saxonies. :D

They were picked up as 4 WEEK OLD DUCKLINGS. Please stop assuming. Thank you.

Well, they're not a mix, that's for sure. The Saxony mix is impossible -and they don't stand like a Runner.

Well, I didn't see the parents. I saw the duckling pictures and met the lady on my way to a family getaway. And no, they were laid four weeks after she died. Like I said, a big fat IMPOSSIBLE.

That is another impossibility. I don't know what the lady has for Rouens, but the Saxony hen died 4 weeks before these were even beginning to hatch. And anyway, how did variations even become? I'm sure it's not impossible for a blue fawn to come from two grays if they carry the recessive genes...

At the very least, I'll know when their ducklings hatch in a few months. But I'm 90% certain they are purebred Rouens. Rouens have variations of Black, Blue Fawn, and Pastel, but are normally Gray (Dave Holderread is the source).