MALLARD THREAD...not rouens, Mallards!

[Carcajou]

Well my white mallards hatched out two ducklings. They are a week old now and I had to share this.

 

[fuzziecreatures]

These are my babies when I got them a week and a half ago.



The day we got them, one of the babies!



Curled up in my hubby's hand



My little Cupcake.



Drying off after their bath, they get a warm bath every other day.



Should they get a bath every day? Twice daily? They are starting to get their feathers. I had to make them the milk jug waterers because they couldn't clean their faces well enough out of the chick waterer anymore. I think they were at the store for a week before we got them? How do you figure out how old they are? I noticed on Sunday after bathtime there are prickly feathers starting on their tails and some of them on their bodies.

 

[Amiga]

I gave my runners daily baths. Their tail feathers seemed to come in first, maybe during their second week.

 

[Rhandi74]

Can anyone tell if there are any drakes in my pics? Sorry about all the pics but I cannot tell them apart anymore. I have 3 and they are about 8 weeks old.

 

[Speceider]

Looks like 2 are drakes.

Clint

 

[Rhandi74]

Looks like 2 are drakes.

Clint

Thank you. I have 3 but could only find one pic of all of them together and unfortunately I do not know which one is which.

 

[austinbndr28]

Can anyone tell if there are any drakes in my pics? Sorry about all the pics but I cannot tell them apart anymore. I have 3 and they are about 8 weeks old.

Looks like 2 hens and a drake, by their bill color hens are more orangish and yellow while drakes have a greenish color. You should be able to tell in a week when they grow tail feathers. Also by this age you can start to tell the difference in their voices.

 

[Housemom408]

Are my ducks mallards?

They are 11 weeks old now.

 

[cymbaline]

Are my ducks mallards?


They are 11 weeks old now.

I'd say yes; it's hard to judge size from just one pic, but they don't look very large and their body shape looks more mallard than rouen. It also appears you have a boy (on the left) and a girl (on the right).

 

[DisneyGal25]

We went into the feed store today to pick up our Four Cayuga ducklings 3 girls and a drake... When the store called this morning they said my drake was DOA :'( so.....we picked up a Mallard drake! Boy am I glad we did! He is super super sweet and cuddly and cute as a button! I do however know basically nothing about Mallards! Please any advice would be helpful... We live in the city and we are first time duck owners!