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[purplefrog]

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Me either and I know nothing about call ducks! Mystery continues!

According to my breeding duck color Bible....

I'd agree with Khaki... or chocolate dusky mallard

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html

give it a try... it's held quite true in our breeding programs.

After much research on this cute little duck I am thinking he is a Khaki call duck. How I dont know. When both his parents are snowys. This was proven after talking the owner and the orginal owners of the flock. The fella I got him from purchased what he believed at the time to be appleyards, these where shipped to him. He still beleived this until I told him I thought the little fella was something else. He contacted the owners and they confirmed they only raised two colors.. apples and snowys. The man was sent a trio of snowys by accident and his apples were sent to another buyer by accident. The man is so grateful that I helped him discover his true breed variety that he is giving me another call drake (a full brother to the first one).... he will arrive this evening. The man is new to call ducks as well as myself. So we are now learning together! Thanks to all who helped in this mystery and who are stilling helping!

 

[duckluck]

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According to my breeding duck color Bible....

I'd agree with Khaki... or chocolate dusky mallard

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html

give it a try... it's held quite true in our breeding programs.

After much research on this cute little duck I am thinking he is a Khaki call duck. How I dont know. When both his parents are snowys. This was proven after talking the owner and the orginal owners of the flock. The fella I got him from purchased what he believed at the time to be appleyards, these where shipped to him. He still beleived this until I told him I thought the little fella was something else. He contacted the owners and they confirmed they only raised two colors.. apples and snowys. The man was sent a trio of snowys by accident and his apples were sent to another buyer by accident. The man is so grateful that I helped him discover his true breed variety that he is giving me another call drake (a full brother to the first one).... he will arrive this evening. The man is new to call ducks as well as myself. So we are now learning together! Thanks to all who helped in this mystery and who are stilling helping!

I'm on my way out the door right now but I will look at my varieties book later...what color is the speculum on his wings? You know the little stripe of color...but yes, now that I am seeing his head as brown and not the midnight blue it looked like from here in the other pictures, I'd say a Khaki. The speculum looks brown as well from here.

The National Call Breeders Association has a varieties book in the store section of their site. It makes for fascinating reading and is a must-have for anyone involved with Calls. You might want to get one, I guarantee you'll have fun reading it (even if some of the details on some of the rares will have your eyes crossing after a while!).

Hey MrsTurbo, I think you've had Snowies...have you ever had them throw a Khaki? Is that even possible?

 

[duckluck]

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Pretty cool little ducks! Makes me wonder if there will be a silky variety of Call duck somewhere in the future! One can hope!

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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After much research on this cute little duck I am thinking he is a Khaki call duck. How I dont know. When both his parents are snowys. This was proven after talking the owner and the orginal owners of the flock. The fella I got him from purchased what he believed at the time to be appleyards, these where shipped to him. He still beleived this until I told him I thought the little fella was something else. He contacted the owners and they confirmed they only raised two colors.. apples and snowys. The man was sent a trio of snowys by accident and his apples were sent to another buyer by accident. The man is so grateful that I helped him discover his true breed variety that he is giving me another call drake (a full brother to the first one).... he will arrive this evening. The man is new to call ducks as well as myself. So we are now learning together! Thanks to all who helped in this mystery and who are stilling helping!

I'm on my way out the door right now but I will look at my varieties book later...what color is the speculum on his wings? You know the little stripe of color...but yes, now that I am seeing his head as brown and not the midnight blue it looked like from here in the other pictures, I'd say a Khaki. The speculum looks brown as well from here.

The National Call Breeders Association has a varieties book in the store section of their site. It makes for fascinating reading and is a must-have for anyone involved with Calls. You might want to get one, I guarantee you'll have fun reading it (even if some of the details on some of the rares will have your eyes crossing after a while!).

Hey MrsTurbo, I think you've had Snowies...have you ever had them throw a Khaki? Is that even possible?

nope.....we raised both snowys and silver appleyards and never had a khaki. Just goes to show you.....sometimes there are other colors hidden. We do have white magpies sometimes and you wouldn't even know they were from magpies, of course the quality of them is not as nice as our other whites. They go to pet homes or swap meets.

got the call duck site up and running again last night.....hehe a little oversight on the bill. guess the emails were not working.

 

[purplefrog]

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After much research on this cute little duck I am thinking he is a Khaki call duck. How I dont know. When both his parents are snowys. This was proven after talking the owner and the orginal owners of the flock. The fella I got him from purchased what he believed at the time to be appleyards, these where shipped to him. He still beleived this until I told him I thought the little fella was something else. He contacted the owners and they confirmed they only raised two colors.. apples and snowys. The man was sent a trio of snowys by accident and his apples were sent to another buyer by accident. The man is so grateful that I helped him discover his true breed variety that he is giving me another call drake (a full brother to the first one).... he will arrive this evening. The man is new to call ducks as well as myself. So we are now learning together! Thanks to all who helped in this mystery and who are stilling helping!

I'm on my way out the door right now but I will look at my varieties book later...what color is the speculum on his wings? You know the little stripe of color...but yes, now that I am seeing his head as brown and not the midnight blue it looked like from here in the other pictures, I'd say a Khaki. The speculum looks brown as well from here.

The National Call Breeders Association has a varieties book in the store section of their site. It makes for fascinating reading and is a must-have for anyone involved with Calls. You might want to get one, I guarantee you'll have fun reading it (even if some of the details on some of the rares will have your eyes crossing after a while!).

Hey MrsTurbo, I think you've had Snowies...have you ever had them throw a Khaki? Is that even possible?

I will have to look at his wings tonight. And snap a picture.. sounds like we are getting closer to solving this riddle!!??


I just checked the National Call Breeders website... the call duck varieties book is on sell for $10 and it includes shipping. I ordered one for researching this amazing colorful little duck.

 

[easttxchick]

Hope so, purplefrog.
If you have a little Khaki, that is great! Not an easy variety to get your hands on!

ETA: If you are getting his full hatchmate and the breeder is saying both parents are Snoweys, it sounds strange to me...I would love to go look at this guys birds and see what he's got.

 

[purplefrog]

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I am certain he is just as new to the world of call ducks as I am!! He is confused on this too. We talked for about an hour last night. He went back to the breeder and discussed, even sent the picture of the drake that I have posted here. The breeder still says Snowy! I told the man no way, if he was anything near a Snowy, he should have a green head right ? not brown?? Plus the Snowy sports a neck ring as well right?

 

[fowlman01]

I can see khaki...don't know why I didn't see that at first. I had a gray female once that threw all kinds of different colors. Usually grays don't do that, but I could see where some of the other color Calls could depending on how they were originally made.

Walt

 

[19hhbelgian]

So, question for you seasoned duck breeders... My older female silkie laid well for me last year, and the eggs were fertile, but getting those little buggers to hatch on their own was next to impossible. I hatched out only a few ducklings, but none would have hatched with out help. All were very healthy and vibrant, and are in new homes now, doing well. I was "warned" that the silkie ducks are harder to hatch out, but I wasn't quite expecting this. I was letting one girl set, but that didn't work out as a rat stole the eggs

Any secret hints for easier hatching? I was taking the eggs out the last 2 weeks of incubation and letting them "rest" as suggested by someone else, and I was also spritzing them to try and get a bigger air sac. I feel a little dumb asking this, but figured yeah well, I don't want to have to help hatch out every duckling, and I really shouldn't need to do that anyway right?! Trying to prepare for this season - Thanks!!

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

eww eww ewww guess what you guys, I have a butterscotch egg with little veins in it, nursing it like a million dollar IRA certificate, got 55% humidity reading, forgot when I put the darn thing in bator though, darn it, darn it, but It is developing, ew, eww, I hope I am a mommy