I have two ducks around 3 months old and recently found out my swedish is a female and my Peking is a male. Is it possible for them to breed? Does anyone have pics? Thx!
Swedish x Peking cross?
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Yes they can breed. I don't have any pics but I imagine the offspring will be a mix of white and black.
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I have a Pekin drake and had three Swedish ducks. I had one duck each in black, blue, and splash. When bred to my drake, the black duck produces 100% black ducklings with white markings, the blue produces 50% black and 50% blue with white markings, and the splash produces 100% blue with white markings.
In April, I hatched three Swedish/Pekin ducklings (along with one pure Pekin) and all of the mixes looked like Swedish ducks with slightly larger white bib and wing tips. Now that they've grown and feathered in, they are larger than pure Swedish (this is most noticeable with the only female) but slightly smaller than Pekins, and one of the boys has a blocky head that looks very much like a Pekin but the other boy and the girl have a more Swedish shape. Their coloring is exactly like a Swedish, except for the black drake that has some very faint brown stripes on his head and slight barring on his wings - I think the father is hiding some Rouen/Mallard coloring under his white.
(This duckling's bib shrunk as it grew and is now normally-sized for a Swedish duck)
In May, I hatched six ducklings who are just starting to feather out. These ducklings have much more white than the first hatch, but they have the same parents, so I'm thinking it's coincedence. One of the black ducklings is marked somewhat like a magpie, with a black cap, white throat, neck, and breast, and white wings. Three other ducklings have fully white breast/abdomen and white wings. Two ducklings are marked like a standard Swedish.
The last duckling is the one with the least white markings. She was shrink-wrapped and had to be assisted after several hours, and that photo was taken in ducky ICU. Her color appears darker due to staining from drying out, but as new fuzz grew in, she became a normal blue. Also, the head injury on the second black duckling was due to being pecked by a nervous first time mother at hatch. She healed quickly and is now quite healthy.
If you'd like to see more recent photos, especially of the older ducklings, I can try to take some.
In April, I hatched three Swedish/Pekin ducklings (along with one pure Pekin) and all of the mixes looked like Swedish ducks with slightly larger white bib and wing tips. Now that they've grown and feathered in, they are larger than pure Swedish (this is most noticeable with the only female) but slightly smaller than Pekins, and one of the boys has a blocky head that looks very much like a Pekin but the other boy and the girl have a more Swedish shape. Their coloring is exactly like a Swedish, except for the black drake that has some very faint brown stripes on his head and slight barring on his wings - I think the father is hiding some Rouen/Mallard coloring under his white.
In May, I hatched six ducklings who are just starting to feather out. These ducklings have much more white than the first hatch, but they have the same parents, so I'm thinking it's coincedence. One of the black ducklings is marked somewhat like a magpie, with a black cap, white throat, neck, and breast, and white wings. Three other ducklings have fully white breast/abdomen and white wings. Two ducklings are marked like a standard Swedish.
The last duckling is the one with the least white markings. She was shrink-wrapped and had to be assisted after several hours, and that photo was taken in ducky ICU. Her color appears darker due to staining from drying out, but as new fuzz grew in, she became a normal blue. Also, the head injury on the second black duckling was due to being pecked by a nervous first time mother at hatch. She healed quickly and is now quite healthy.
If you'd like to see more recent photos, especially of the older ducklings, I can try to take some.
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. That'd be great!!!I have a Pekin drake and had three Swedish ducks. I had one duck each in black, blue, and splash. When bred to my drake, the black duck produces 100% black ducklings with white markings, the blue produces 50% black and 50% blue with white markings, and the splash produces 100% blue with white markings. In April, I hatched three Swedish/Pekin ducklings (along with one pure Pekin) and all of the mixes looked like Swedish ducks with slightly larger white bib and wing tips. Now that they've grown and feathered in, they are larger than pure Swedish (this is most noticeable with the only female) but slightly smaller than Pekins, and one of the boys has a blocky head that looks very much like a Pekin but the other boy and the girl have a more Swedish shape. Their coloring is exactly like a Swedish, except for the black drake that has some very faint brown stripes on his head and slight barring on his wings - I think the father is hiding some Rouen/Mallard coloring under his white.
(This duckling's bib shrunk as it grew and is now normally-sized for a Swedish duck)https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/7009299/ In May, I hatched six ducklings who are just starting to feather out. These ducklings have much more white than the first hatch, but they have the same parents, so I'm thinking it's coincedence. One of the black ducklings is marked somewhat like a magpie, with a black cap, white throat, neck, and breast, and white wings. Three other ducklings have fully white breast/abdomen and white wings. Two ducklings are marked like a standard Swedish.
The last duckling is the one with the least white markings. She was shrink-wrapped and had to be assisted after several hours, and that photo was taken in ducky ICU. Her color appears darker due to staining from drying out, but as new fuzz grew in, she became a normal blue. Also, the head injury on the second black duckling was due to being pecked by a nervous first time mother at hatch. She healed quickly and is now quite healthy. If you'd like to see more recent photos, especially of the older ducklings, I can try to take some.
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This post is old, but the only thing I can find regarding a pekin and swedish cross. What I'm really interested in, is how good of layers are they? Presumably somewhere in between a pekin and a swedish, but not sure if the cross breed messes with this and they produce significantly fewer eggs.I have a Pekin drake and had three Swedish ducks. I had one duck each in black, blue, and splash. When bred to my drake, the black duck produces 100% black ducklings with white markings, the blue produces 50% black and 50% blue with white markings, and the splash produces 100% blue with white markings.
In April, I hatched three Swedish/Pekin ducklings (along with one pure Pekin) and all of the mixes looked like Swedish ducks with slightly larger white bib and wing tips. Now that they've grown and feathered in, they are larger than pure Swedish (this is most noticeable with the only female) but slightly smaller than Pekins, and one of the boys has a blocky head that looks very much like a Pekin but the other boy and the girl have a more Swedish shape. Their coloring is exactly like a Swedish, except for the black drake that has some very faint brown stripes on his head and slight barring on his wings - I think the father is hiding some Rouen/Mallard coloring under his white.
In May, I hatched six ducklings who are just starting to feather out. These ducklings have much more white than the first hatch, but they have the same parents, so I'm thinking it's coincedence. One of the black ducklings is marked somewhat like a magpie, with a black cap, white throat, neck, and breast, and white wings. Three other ducklings have fully white breast/abdomen and white wings. Two ducklings are marked like a standard Swedish.
The last duckling is the one with the least white markings. She was shrink-wrapped and had to be assisted after several hours, and that photo was taken in ducky ICU. Her color appears darker due to staining from drying out, but as new fuzz grew in, she became a normal blue. Also, the head injury on the second black duckling was due to being pecked by a nervous first time mother at hatch. She healed quickly and is now quite healthy.
If you'd like to see more recent photos, especially of the older ducklings, I can try to take some.
Thanks!
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My Pekin/Swedish ducks lay just as well as the purebred Pekin and Swedish parents. Their eggs aren't quite as large as the pure Pekin, but most are pretty close. One girl did lay a smaller egg-roughly the size of a large chicken egg. They lay on the same schedule as their purebred parents-an egg a day from mid-January until July/August, then sporadically or not at all. One of my crossbred girls (Swede mother) went broody this year, as did my pure Pekin, who is a year older. Both were terrible at keeping track of eggs and won't be allowed to brood again, although they did manage to hatch one baby out of 16 eggs (with the help of a broody hen that took over for the final week after both girls abandoned the nest to play in the rain). The crossbreed is raising the baby, but mostly just ignores it while it follows her around.
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