Blue Swedish ducklings? How to tame?

[QuailQT]

Also forgot to ask what kind of treats are ok for ducklings. Could I sprinkle some oatmeal in the water with them while they are swimming?
Anything that you've found that they just love?

 

[70%cocoa]

The splash is a light silvery grey (lighter than yours) in the ducklings. In the adults it can vary from almost white with a few pale grey feathers to light grey all over (with a slate grey/blueish bill. Drake has a green tinge in the bill).

The splash is a beautiful colour, but only the blue can be shown (only the blue is in the breed standard) so this is the most popular and most marketable colour. Personally I love the splash colour the best. The blacks are very handsome as well though.

Try feeding the duckings slightly squashed green peas (i.e. thawed frozen peas) or chopped up bits of lettuce.

 

[70%cocoa]

Deleted because I managed to post the same thing twice

 

[QuailQT]

Thanks! I'll give that a try!

 

[desertdarlene]

Hi!

One of the sticky topics in the Duck forum lists foods that are good for ducks. Treats for ducklings have a little

next to them and explains how to feed them to the babies.

ETA: Here's the link: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=242460

 

[QuailQT]

Wow, thank you so much! Really appreciate the help everyone!

 

[2txmedics]

Ok, now after some heavy posting, Im told that my babies from TSC is not what I was told. Im new to ducks....

I was sold pekins and mallards....but now after much reading and research....I might have a blue swedish....

Can I ask please what the bill has to do with its sex??? and how can I tell on mine?

 

[AmberH]

I'm not totally sure and I'm no expert. Last year when I got my babies I was told that green bills meant boys and blue bills (like your's) were girls. Good luck!

 

[askjcm2005]

About a year ago I bought 3 pekin ducklings at 2 weeks old and they despised me. It became quite clear after a few months they would never like me so I rehomed them to someone with a huge ranch. Then I got a pair of pekin ducklings when they were 4-5 days old and my husband got admitted into the hospital with a bad staph infection the next day so I put a few silkies in the cage with them and we pretty much.lived at the hospital for 8 days and I saw the ducklings once a day only. They soon grew up and hated us too but not as much as the first 3 I got. But they were literally best friends with the silkies. The pekins grew, starting breeding and laying and there best friends (the silkies) just hatched the first duckling egg. We didnt want the new baby to be lonely so we bought a khaki cambell duckling to keep eachother company. The pekin baby that our chickens hatched we handled from birth (i didnt know u werent supposed to handle them so soon) well this was monday and the dang baby is so attached to us! It loves us to hold it and chases us around outside even though it was just born monday. It cries forever after we put it back in the cage and leave and when we come back it runs up to the door and pretty much says "hold me" lol but the khaki cambell we bought who was 5 days old, we've done all the same things with it and it hates us!! I think the key is handling them asap like in day 1 or 2.

 

[desertdarlene]

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It does look like you have a blue Swedish plus a Rouen (or Rouen hybrid) plus two pekins to me. I don't know if you can sex them by bill color or shape, but someone else might know.