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Yes, you could call that drake a Swedish. He does have an enormous bib, but that just makes him a Swedish with a huge bib! :)

She has the right colouring and pattern for a Swedish duck. If she is quacking loudly then she's a she for sure :) Whether or not she is a pure bred is something you could only tell by getting offspring from her (black colur and bibs are dominant, so in single doses they can hide other...

Dare Bear, congratulations on the eggs - I hope your girls turn out to be great layers. Those eggs all look totally normal to me, for young Swedish ducks starting out laying. It's normal to get some tiny little eggs - and, if they are coloured, for them to be darker than big eggs as the colour...

Jess, I went back to look at the pics of your duck and I agree that lavender or lilac are possibilities (lavender and lilac are terms that are not used that consistently to describe colours but in the UK/Europe 'Lilac' is used to describe a bird that is Blue and Chocolate and 'Lavender' is used...

Jess, congratulations!!! With those two parents the different colours in the ducklings shouldn't indicate particular sexes. It's possible that your hen is chocolate though....does she actually look dark brown, compared to your drake? Would love to see pics of your new bubs! Edit since I...

Yeah, I know what you mean. It'd be nice if the Standards at least recognised black and splash/silver, as a start! It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that only Blue is recognised. I'd like to see Lilac, Lavender and Chocolate Bibbed birds recognised here. Whatever they were called. I've seen...

I did reply to this bit earlier but I stuffed it up and BYC ate it, LOL. Brown in the feathers is a fault for showing here. If a bird had brown, it would still be considered to be Swedish, just a Swedish with a fault. Unless it was brown all over... No chocolate Swedish in the Standard here...

You don't see Lilac around much so I am not very familiar with how it appears :-) Here, Lilac is E/E, Bl/bl, d/d (or d/- in females). So, yes, we use different names for different things, which isn't all that helpful :-)

Do you reckon the duck is splash? I'd say she's blue, because she has some black feathers. In Swedish, splash (also known as silver) don't have any black feathers, just white, pale blue and the odd darker blue fleck. She is quite a pale blue though.

Yes, I understand that they are considered different in the US :-) Was just saying that in the Australian Standards any brown is considered a fault. But I think it's good to pursue new varieties and to take advantage of new genes that pop up :-) That is really interesting about your drake not...

PS. Congratulations on the hatches too - what a fabulous result!!! :-)

Can't wait to see some more pics of your new girl. Glad she arrived safely!! It's good to have some size added to your breeding program. Swedish shud be fairly big. In terms of the way Swedish are viewed in Australia, any brown in the feathers (anywhere) is seen as a serious fault. Introducing...

I'm so sorry about your duck What a terribly sad loss.

Sounds like an excellent plan. Black to silver will give 100% blue - the theory works :) I have got nice rich blues out of a black and silver pair. It's definitely good to think of breeding as a 'long game'.

Stormview, I thought she looked like one of Kylie's :) I have three of Kylie's ducks that I had shipped here. Your new blue girl is the one I was taking about with the white eyeliner. She seems to have a white line behind her eye, which may be why Kylie sold her as a duckling. Otherwise she...

Nice bib, Stormview, and a good solid girl. Love her type. Just gotta watch out for that white eye line in the offspring. Try to breed that out of future generations. Your silver girl is very very nice!!! Ps. Can I ask where you are getting your blue duck from?

That's right - the feathers aren't green. They just refract the light which then appears green.

If I'm wrong you can change it to Jacqueline

For my money, the boy is the one on the far left. Often males have the bigger bibs, and more orange feet. We'll see if I'm right! They are a nice blue I hope they lay really well for you. My guys are great layers.

Thanks for the photos, Blkpoodles! Did you breed those or buy them? Hope you have a few girls there!