Totally unpure! they were feed store babies, so I was curious as to what the black duck had beneath the genetic EE "mask", I was also curious about the drake's genetic make up too (if he was RR or Rr, if he had Chocolate, buff, double blue dilution, etc) which is why I bred them to see what I...
I've found that if I have girls, I will start hearing mystery honks around 2.5-4 weeks during what I like to call "duck puberty". All my drakes have kept their peeps until like 3-4.5/5 weeks when their rasp starts coming in! But I think I know what you mean by whistle, with all of my drakes, I...
They're SOOO cute! All the babies are Runner patterned with bibs so the white on their bellies connects to their neck, so not a "good" runner pattern" but pretty darn cute!
All girls are white and light lavender or lilac (I'm not sure how to describe) and all the boys are white and blue. Oh and...
My girl grew out of the beak right about a month or two after she started laying eggs! Are you looking to sex your ducklings by beak color? I find that doesn't really work as a lot of my girls with blackish beaks turn green before they lay and my boys with green beaks turned green when they...
here they are today at almost 3 weeks! The boy (blue/darker color) is about 4 days older than the youngest girl (with the brownish head)
Legs are all still pink/dusty pink with black and dark gray splash
and the boy’s are starting to yellow a bit
tail feathers are still coming in with the...
My ducklings legs are the same type of color as the silver! I was so curious if pink and gray legs were a thing because I'd never seen them before but they're sooooo cool when they are next to the bright orange and black footed ducks! I'll take some pics tomorrow! I see tail feathers coming in...
UPDATE:
It seems as though this may be a sex-linked combo! Of the three that I kept, two of the light gray/lilac/lavender that have brownish hues in their down are GIRLS and have just learned to quack! The blue (dark color) is a BOY! I've asked the people I gave the rest of their siblings to to...
um those ducks are BEAUTIFUL?!?!?!?! um my eyes are not worthy?!??!?!?!
They are soooooooooooo pretty!!!! I like the way the color looks on troopie's legs! I can't wait for my guys to grow up!!!
How old are the ducklings now? They are too cute, the lavender is precious. Even though I know...
I heard a really good idea somewhere on here that to get them to imprint on you, you should get an old hoodie sweatshirt you don't particularly care about and let them "brood" in the hoodie while you wear it for a little bit each day. I think they said you wear it backwards and put the ducks in...
TREATS, but also they grew out of their friendliness :/ The duck is now scared of me?????? and the drake just is aggressively trying to mate me lol but that was when they were free range and came of age. I built them a pen and now they're less territorial and way sweeter! I literally grew a huge...
the legs are splashed with dark gray and sometimes black. The base color gray may be pink? not sure what the terminology is but they are definitely NOT orange lol curious what breeds people see this leg color in usually!
I think they all might be bibbed! thanks @CaliFarmsAR for the revelation lol
Side note: Just curious, anybody out there have ducks with gray legs? This is a first for me!
Hi All, making a thread because I hadn't seen this particular cross asked before and figured I can't be the only one who is curious!!
So I have a Fawn & White Runner Drake (male) and a Black Runner duck (female). all I know about their genetics is that the American f&w has the double blue...