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I've just enclosed their run with netting; that way everyone can still fly around - I was given a couple of call ducks when I started up and they came clipped. They would still fly around with my mallard but had such poor control that they would land badly or in the wrong place. Crispy would...

Mine hatched her first clutch at the ripe old age of 9 months

There's no real way of sexing from looks (except the look of the vent!) until they get older. Anything that quacks is definitely a girl! I'd say that you have some odd colours is all, another week at most and you should be able to voice sex them all.

Probably a double recessive genetic trait that both parents contributed to. Probably wouldn't have seen half as many if one of parents were different. I have a mallard that bred with a bibbed blue call. I got colours I wouldn't have seen if I'd used a mallard type call instead of an actual...

Sounds a bit early for that! Most birds don't start laying till 5 months or so; my mallard started laying at about 7 months but this was due to going broody. A couple of months later and she had her first young uns:) It's a seasonal thing so they're probably just getting into the spirit of things!

Hello everyone, I'd just like to introduce my little girl Crispy. I came across this thread in July shortly after my girlfriend rescued a day old mallard duckling from our street! The poor bugger had been running around on the hottest day of the year and was in a bad way when we took her in. We...