Aggressive Pekin or First Attempts at Mating?

[tanaBanana]

My photos posted funky and some didn't post at all. Anyway, here's a better view of Abu:

 

[GitaBooks]

Lovely ducks!

Nuck could be a Rouen, but I've heard that you can buy Mallards from hatcheries as well.

 

[tanaBanana]

Thank you! I'm at a loss with poor Nuck! He's having this major identity crisis and I can't help set him straight! Lol! So, by saying you can get mallards, are you suggesting he might be that? I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding. If I'm understanding right, Nick got him to accompany a baby mallard and Nuck was much different in coloring (solid brown), and he was larger. Anything's possible, but I don't really think that. Of course with his head turning green almost over night, nothing would surprise me!

 

[GitaBooks]

I think he's probably a Rouen. They are larger and meatier than mallards. He could be a cross breed though.

 

[tanaBanana]

Ahhhh....that makes more sense now! Thank you! Do feed stores frequently sell ducks by the wrong name? As I said, Nuck was supposedly a Khaki Campbell and Phantom was supposedly a Pekin. Seeing as how we've only bought 5 ducks from feed stores and two were improperly named, those make the odds pretty bad. And Nuck came from a different place than Phantom, making feed stores look even worse!

 

[GitaBooks]

I don't want to give feed stores a bad name, as we got some wonderful chickens from them, but they do often mislable the gender and it wouldn't surprise me if they did the breed as well. Also, they often have poultry that are sick.

 

[tanaBanana]

I know they often have sickly poultry. It's sad!

I just sorta researched Rouen ducklings and khaki Campbell ducklings. Nuck definitely looks like KC when he was a baby. Here's a picture of him at about two weeks old:

The Rouens look more like mallard ducklings as far as I know. This is my first experience with pet ducks. I think I've had pretty much every farm animal except them, so I'm truly ignorant about them but slowly learning!

 

[GitaBooks]

I hope to get ducks soon myself. I've never owned them and would love the experience. Do you have a favorite breed?

 

[Amykins]

I hope to get ducks soon myself. I've never owned them and would love the experience. Do you have a favorite breed?

I am 100% partial to call ducks, hehe! they're just so dang cute, and they've got great personalities. Think the big, silly, loveable personalities of Pekins, but in a tiny, round, stubby package!

I'm also rather fond of Muscovies, because they seem to be demure, quie and very affectionate - at least the ones I've seen (mostly hens, admittedly). But they have faces only a mother could love, and since they're so big, they can be a handful if you do get an aggressive one or have to physicatlly move them if they aren't imprinted on people. Those claws are serious business.

 

[GitaBooks]

I like how pretty the Cayugas color is. It shines so green!