I had a broody hen reject an egg, kicked it right out of her nest to the ground outside. It sat over night I would guess, in about 45 degree weather. About 16 days along. I brought it inside to my incubator that was running another hatch. The egg was a deep moss olive color, so I couldn't...
I've got 6. To my extremely inexperienced eyes, based off of 5 minutes on google, I think there are 5 gals and a male?
I'll label the pics with numbers.
I believe they are the Pharoah coloring? Are they jumbo or the smaller kind? I got them from rural king, so hoovers. It just said 'quail' lol.
I deleted my original comment in the post, but because of the light chest patch I was also wondering if it could be a splash swedish, but it wasn't mottled enough. I haven't seen a silver Swedish before, so excited to look them up! It's much, much lighter than the blue Swedish I got at the same...
I would say the one on the far left is a khaki campbell. It is quite a bit smaller than the other of the same age, and they are a lighter breed. Also based off the duckling picture of it. I agree the coloring is leaning male.
They are both definitely not welsh harlequins.
I've had a great variety of ducks through the years. But I am not sure on these two little gals.
They are both female. 3 weeks apart in age but the growth spurt on the older one is pretty awesome.
The brown older duck is 4 weeks about. It appeared to be a khaki campbell as a duckling, I...
Thankfully I was able to get everything straightened away with their coops shortly after this post. I also switched to a local made higher quality feed and most of the suddenly started laying all the week that I switched. Pretty wild!
Their coop was 100ft sq, so not tiny but not huge for the...