Search results for query: *

uh, if i was a different person then how could i not be me? Mind twister lol, no i'm not i was just reading along the thread and saw some chatter and thought to give my opinion, sorry i tend to speak my mind lol

the bill looks like the size of a mallard to me.

but mallards wild or domesticated can have different genes right? i mean its rare, like how an apricot wood duck could come from two regular parents. Mallards exhibit more than one color mutations right? so whose to say it isn't a black mallard? in all relativity color mutations happen all the...

no the hen's genes that are passed decide if the offspring is male or female, no it- (The hen) doesn't decide, its the genes like you said, but its the z or w gene that decides what the offspring will be and the hen holds the zw gene if it passes a z its a male, if it passes a w its a female...

Yes :) exactly

i think you just misread the question See i think what kstavert meant was what chromosomes from which parent determines the offspring. In all birds females chromosomes decide the sex of the babies since a females chromosomes are zw and males are zz (Z and W are used as birds sex chromosomes)...

I agree with you robo but did you think about how it could also help the population so the predators could have more food, if that duckling is a female it will have many more babies increasing the population and if it's a male he would go and find a female. But I do see the threat of it getting...

Ok then Yeppers there girls, usually my mallards and rouens curl within a month sa yay there girls!

I think

Just look to see if the tail is curling, it usually does at that age

Nah they're fine , we have a lot of acres and tey hang around the pond especially the mallards and rouens but the muscovies only really sleep down by the pond anyway it's fine we have guard geese and the neighbor has a collie mix that protects the neighbors boredred at night and comes over on...

Yeah I love her so much, she not really a special needs duck nothing messed up her brain or anything she can fly but she doesn't try to leave or anything but I can't tell she misses her old life See I don't have a coop ,my ducks sleep outside except if there injured then they go in the...

Kk because my only full mallard hen was attacked by a hawk, about I want to say a month ago and I saved her she was a wild hen but she became very tame and also lost one of her eyes, I saved her while the hawk was still on her and she had her throat cut really bad , but I wasn't deep enough to...

What does egg bound mean?

I have a mallard Cayuga mix but the Cayuga is twice removed but she's all black and only a bit bigger than a mallard, so here's is my question if a Rouen were to mate with a Rouen would the offspring have a silver lining with black base feathers