Rouen Duck thread

[ducklover87]

He is extremely loud! My runner sounds like a cricket.. My rouen sounds like a trumpet horn! I will try and get audio-sounds just like my moms female rouen..thats why I am confused-white ring I was told was a definite boy, but is loud like a female.

Where did you get them from? Your rouen could be a possible mix if you got them from someone or if you got them from a hatchery or feed store it could just be bad genetics that would cause it to have that white ring. It's a pretty think ring from what I can see and I remember on my male the ring being a lot thinner. There's also a lot of white on it's wings which makes me believe it's either a mix or is just bad coloring.

 

[naturebound]

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Just thought I'd share a few pics of my 4 month old rouens, I'm enjoying them sooo much, they truly have unique personalities, I was curious about the head vibrating and lunging behavior, but they seem to do that when they're happy or excited, so it must be an ok behavior, any thoughts?

 

[danahud]

Just got my first egg from my rouens!! Of course she flew outside of the the lot to lay it in the leaves... guess we will be going on a daily egg hunt.

 

[Duck mama]

I LOVE my ducks! I have 5 Rouen, 5 Pekin and 4 Kahki. I have been hearing some "unusual quacking" coming from the pond over the last week and at night 2 of the Pekin females have had very muddy heads. This morning I saw the male Rouen mating with one of the Pekins. Is that normal? I guess I just assumed that they would breed within their own breeds????

 

[buff goose guy]

Yeah that's very normal ducks are like dogs , if you put a male lab in with a female border collie in heat is the lab not going to try to mate with the border collie .

 

[WildThang]

I LOVE my ducks! I have 5 Rouen, 5 Pekin and 4 Kahki. I have been hearing some "unusual quacking" coming from the pond over the last week and at night 2 of the Pekin females have had very muddy heads. This morning I saw the male Rouen mating with one of the Pekins. Is that normal? I guess I just assumed that they would breed within their own breeds????

That is very normal, Ducks don't care what breed of duck they are mating.

 

[Amiga]

Is it okay to politely mention that some ducks don't even care what species they are romancing? Sounds kind of funny, but this is a problem some have had with drakes and chickens and that is seriously a risk to the chickens.

 

[buff goose guy]

Yeah my ducks sometimes mate with my gesse or try too

 

[Mrs.H]

I LOVE my ducks!  I have 5 Rouen, 5 Pekin and 4 Kahki.  I have been hearing some "unusual quacking" coming from the pond over the last week and at night 2 of the Pekin females have had very muddy heads.  This morning I saw the male Rouen mating with one of the Pekins.  Is that normal?  I guess I just assumed that they would breed within their own breeds????  

Grrrr this app keeps posting before I'm done!!! Anyway I have 2 male Pekins and 2 female Rouens they had 3 babies last week, guess they are Rou-kins??? Lol

 

[wildsam]

That's what I said they are too! And too cute babies!