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First mallard hen egg of the year. Very green colored.

Daniel, Thank you for sharing the photos. I live where it does not snow, but the photos bring back memories. Good memories of ducks on ice, waiting for their corn.

Beautiful mallards, love the hens. If he were over here, I'd guess his leg got caught in a steel trap and cut off, but I doubt traps like that are common in Holland at all. Hopefully he has a good life, seems his hardest time will be to get through summer moult when he loses his ability to fly.

Here's my little Mallard colored drake I'm going to pen with my Metzer Farms Mallard hen with, will have me some flying Mallards next year! Of course they won't be wild Mallards, but they will sure look like wild Mallards.

Thankyou for the link, lots of very beautiful photographs of call ducks.

Very beautiful waterfowl, thankyou for sharing the photos. He looks like he would be a good flyer with his racy build, what exactly do you call that colour pattern in the Netherlands?

My Metzer Farms Mallard hen, she's about 4 months old now, her sister flew away a month ago, but this one prefers to stay home, she is a good flyer, but not as good as her sister was. She's a very large duck, and though she can fly fairly well, she's to big to easily gain altitude. She's darn...

My duckswant to fly away, they are free to, as i already posted, one recently did. Of course most domestic ducks can't fly to begin with, but those that can, i certainly won't be clipping their wings to stop them. If i wanted ducks that don't fly, instead of getting ducks that can fly, i'd...

In 50 years, Ive never yet clipped a wing, I'm all for freedom, if they want to fly away, then that's their choice, I will never ever clip a wing, Edited by Staff

One of my Metzer Farm mallard hens flew away about a month ago and I'm shocked she has never returned home. I went inside the pen to catch some call ducks to cull, and she flew straight up in the air above the trees about top of power line pole height and disappeared into the wild blue yonder...

Domestic mallards always have one or two eye stripes. Rouen ducks always have two eye stripes. Looks like 3 of the ducklings have only 1 eye stripe, so i'd be pretty sure they are mallards. The one duckling with 2 eye stripes, he looks a little bigger than the other 3, maybe he's got some rouen...

Here's proof my ducks are not mutts or impure as has been suggested, they were purchased from Holderread's Waterfowl Farm, one of the most prestigeous and elite waterfowl breeders in the world, and that box is the 6 bird size. Some comments have been made about me and Walt Leonard's age well...

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Originally Posted by Tanichca I have what I was told are mallard/call crosses- do those count? I love them to death! Here is a post from earlier in this thread by WaterfowlWierdo, the guy who started this thread, be says call/mallard crosses are welcome on this thread that he started, so...

All domestic ducks that are Mallard colored are called Mallards with the exception of rouens. They are not called wild mallards, they are called domestic mallards. This is the mallard thread, it is not the wild mallard thread. By crossing Metzer Farm flying mallard bens and a mallard colored...

Beautiful Mallard hen, she sure looks 100% wild type. lovely hen, wish she was mine. :)

Buck Oaks, are you sure that you and Buffgooseguy aren't the same person, just using different name and email address maybe?

Walt LOL, i didn't think to use a Black East Indie because i don't have any! Walt, saw you at the Red Bluff CA show last year, was thrilled! I think You and i are on the same page, those wild mallards are in a class of their own. I remember as a youngster out duck hunting, most mallards we shot...

Buffgooseguy, i never heard of a black mallard before you claimed you had one, and according to the photo she isnt racy enough to be pure strain wild mallard type, her bill isn't long enough. In addition to raising mallards for 50 years, I'v also been a duck hunter on the Pacific Flyway for 50...

Whoah Buffgooseguy! You are way out of line. A gray call is just a dwarf mallard, breed them to a bigger duck and you get a bigger mallard. Metzer farm flying mallard's are not purebred wild strain to begin with. Wild mallards lay maybe 16 eggs a year tops. Metzer Farm mallard lay year round...