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The hatchery just emailed me back and they believe it to be a Golden 300 Hybrid. I would be ok with that. 300+ eggs a year would be fine.

I'm beginning to have my doubts about it being a Swedish at all. Today there are some belly feathers coming in and they have horizontal black and brown stripe patterns. I'm terribly confused with this bird.

My 1 year old Rouen started hiding hers under the bedding in her personal nesting box and under the sand in the coop. I'm not sure if she was trying to build up a little stockpile or what but i have to hunt then dig them out now.

I just added 2 jersey giants, a cream legbar, a swedish isbar, a marans, a welsummer, a crested duck, a swedish and a cayuga all ranging from 2 weeks to 7 weeks. They are currently free ranging in the back yard with the adult birds. I got very lucky on this batch.

I had a crested and a pekin at 5 weeks, a swedish and a cayuga at 3 weeks and a rouen and a black swedish at 1.5 weeks and a friend called looking for ducklings so we trimmed back to just the crested, cayuga and swedish. I am surprised how quickly the ducks meshed. On the first night together...

Here we are at 3 weeks old.

I've got a crested duckling, a rouen duckling, a black swedish duckling, a peking duckling, a cayuga duckling and this little one. My wife is so upset the Cayuga and this one won't even let her hold them anymore.

So is a splash Swedish still my best bet until feathering sets in a little more? Do these markings look like anything else? I have looked at the list of breeds over and over from the hatchery but keep hearing sometimes there are surpises that aren't listed.

I think you're right with the Splash. I've gone through the hatcheries site and the Swedish is the only duck that matches this one. I will update as we go.

I am fairly confident i have a blue Swedish duckling here. I purposely picked out one with more splotchy coloring similar to an Ancona or something and less like a Swedish. We were just looking for a pal for our Rouen hen and wanted something interesting so we picked up a Cayuga and this little...