"Call" duck with funny color

[StevenW.]

I want Hattie!

She's so cute and pretty!
Beautiful birds by the way!

His coloring just throws me off. I would just call him Pied since he doesn't look like a Grey Pied.

 

[easttxchick]

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I have one that has turned out that VERY color. I bought him as a few month old cockerel so I have no idea what he looked like as a baby. Need to ask the lady who I got him from what his parentage was.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

He is very pretty. We have two gray pied drakes a grey pied girl and a blue fawn girl.

 

[agregg15]

It would be interesting to somehow breed him to have offspring that color. He is a very handsome boy, I must admit, I'm jealous

 

[un-named]

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Yes, Steven, if that's the proper terminology. I am definitely not an expert on Call duck colors. Someone told me at one point that Hattie was a "Mallard Pied" Call duck. These are Mark's biological parents:

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Hattie and Roger in November by elizabeth's*whimsies, on Flickr

I have more pictures of Hattie (his mom) that are bigger/better and other views, too, if that's helpful.

That is one pretty hen there!

 

[AliciaM]

He reminds me of my Squidward.. His mom was either a butterscotch or one of 2 black/white magpies and daddy was a butterscotch..

This is him at about 4 months or so..

 

[duckyfromoz]

He has turned out wonderfully ElizabethinNY. It really is incredible to see them change so significantly. He is a great example of a surprise outcome gentically. I had a runner recently who was almost totally white with the first set of feathers- but then turned into the most magnificently coloured Harlequin by the time of his last molt. I love surprises like that with my ducks.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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you need to show more pics of your birds ducky

 

[ElizabethinNY]

Alicia, that's a handsome ducky! And everyone else, I agree it would be interesting to breed him to see what occurred, but I'm not sure what color to cross him with. His sister is the female version of him--very pretty. Her name is Pearl and she's got basically the same markings but is grey and brown where he is green and red. It would be nice to find an unrelated hen of the same color. If I was going to start breeding them for real, though, I would need more pens and to do a lot more research. The ducks are all the result of the fact that someone just gave me a duckling (the Mallard hen) when I had chicks. She needed friends, so I got two Calls to keep her company and here we are. I let them sit on a few clutches of eggs last spring just to see what we got. The first clutch that Hattie sat on resulted in one all-white male, one grey male and two black-and-white spotted females. The second set that Little Duck (Mallard) sat on hatched three of Hattie's eggs and two Mallard eggs, so I have the three Call young (Mark the pretty one above, Nathan who is all white and Pearl) and two Mallard-Call males (both male, both grey like your traditional Mallard and bigger than either parent). Aren't ducks fun?

 

[duckluck]

Very cute little duck you have there!