Wood Duck Hybrids Pictures including Mallard x Wood Duck

[Josh courville6]

Vary nice looking ducks, do yall know of someone with a male wood duck in Louisiana for sale

 

[Selgar]

I won't speak for the birds in the pictures, but it is usually the male Wood Duck chasing the miscellaneous species hen.

My female wooducks drake wasn’t paying attention and she breed with a red head pochard drake. I got one boy and he’s amazing. My question is, are the offspring able to procreate or are they fertile?

 

[ColtHandorf]

@MGG look at these! Not a fan of hybrids, but they are pretty.

 

[MGG]

@MGG look at these! Not a fan of hybrids, but they are pretty.

They are pretty! I don't usually like hybrids either but they're really neat.

 

[Selgar]

My female wooducks drake wasn’t paying attention and she breed with a red head pochard drake. I got one boy and he’s amazing. My question is, are the offspring able to procreate or are they fertile?

I have a drake from a wood duck mom and red head pochard drake. He has several females, but has never produced offspring.

 

[Jjnola]

interesting that wood ducks and mandarin ducks share the same genus but they can’t hybridize but wood ducks can with just about any other species.

 

[Selgar]

interesting that wood ducks and mandarin ducks share the same genus but they can’t hybridize but wood ducks can with just about any other species.

It is interesting. They probably shouldn’t be in the same genus since mandarins have more chromosomes than any other duck. Not sure what the genetic difference is between the wood duck and other species, which does allow for hybridization, but creates infertile offspring (like the mule). All other species of True Ducks (dabbing duck) can interbreed with fertile offspring.

I haven’t found any claims of a hybrid wood duck procreating. I wonder if they could procreate with another hybrid???


I have a hybrid wood duck/ red pochard drake (Kymani). He is two and has never given us a fertilized egg from any of our 5 hens. We recently bought hatching eggs for our broody hens. But, for the first time, we have a fertiled egg from our White-Call, but we also just introduced a White-Call Drake. Chances are it won’t be Kymani’s, but we will know once it hatches. We just canceled 7 more of her eggs and they were all unfertilized.

 

[Selgar]

I won't speak for the birds in the pictures, but it is usually the male Wood Duck chasing the miscellaneous species hen.

My hybrids mother was a wood duck and a red head pochard drake got into the pen and that’s how i got Kymani. He has yet to produce a fertilized egg with any of his hens.

 

[wilwingswaterfowl]

These are 5 Wood duck Hooded merganser hybrids I hatched this year. I wouldn't do this Un purpose but my drake wood ducks weren't doing their job this year.

 

[MGG]

These are 5 Wood duck Hooded merganser hybrids I hatched this year. I wouldn't do this Un purpose but my drake wood ducks weren't doing their job this year.

Wow those are weird looking!!!
I bet a taxidermist would be happy to get them, haha.