- Dec 16, 2013
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Hi
My mallards have their head feathers green with only one month old, that is normal? They are the males, when they were young, I sexed them but I only found one male, the other I thought that was a female, but it's a male. I can see a very big difference between males and females. The girls altrhough are bigger than the boys, they have the plumule, the males don't have it, when it starts to appear the feathers, the plumule fall.
I see this today when we were at the ravine walking, and I taked some photos with the sun, It's difficult to see but the feathered part of the head is totally green like an adult, and the rump haves green:
Ocurrs the same with the wing feathers, I don't know if that is normal with young males. I need to see that the biggest duckling I have, It's a female and she haven't any feathers in the head yet, and one of the males is one of the smallest I have and he haves feathers in his head.
Thanks
My mallards have their head feathers green with only one month old, that is normal? They are the males, when they were young, I sexed them but I only found one male, the other I thought that was a female, but it's a male. I can see a very big difference between males and females. The girls altrhough are bigger than the boys, they have the plumule, the males don't have it, when it starts to appear the feathers, the plumule fall.
I see this today when we were at the ravine walking, and I taked some photos with the sun, It's difficult to see but the feathered part of the head is totally green like an adult, and the rump haves green:
Ocurrs the same with the wing feathers, I don't know if that is normal with young males. I need to see that the biggest duckling I have, It's a female and she haven't any feathers in the head yet, and one of the males is one of the smallest I have and he haves feathers in his head.
Thanks