Can a drake be colored like this?

[Happy Hill Farmstead]

Hi I am very new to ducks and one of our young ducks is colored like a female, but sounds like a drake...so my question is, can a drake be colored like this? Thanks in advance for everyone's knowledge He is supposedly a runner duck/silkie/welsh harlequin mix.

 

[Everose]

Hi I am very new to ducks and one of our young ducks is colored like a female, but sounds like a drake...so my question is, can a drake be colored like this? Thanks in advance for everyone's knowledge He is supposedly a runner duck/silkie/welsh harlequin mix.

Right now the boys look like girls. I believe they are close to molting into mating plumage. @Quatie, are they going to molt soon?

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Hi I am very new to ducks and one of our young ducks is colored like a female, but sounds like a drake...so my question is, can a drake be colored like this? Thanks in advance for everyone's knowledge He is supposedly a runner duck/silkie/welsh harlequin mix.

He’s beautiful! Yes, that’s a male and as he molts he will get his male coloring in!!

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

I have a Mallard Indian Runner drake and this is what he looked like for awhile! But now he has his beautiful drake color in!

 

[Happy Hill Farmstead]

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I have a Mallard Indian Runner drake and this is what he looked like for awhile! But now he has his beautiful drake color in!

Oh wow! He looks very similar to ours! Do you have a picture of what your Indian Runner duck drake looks like now as an adult?

 

[Happy Hill Farmstead]

He’s beautiful! Yes, that’s a male and as he molts he will get his male coloring in!!

Great! Thanks

 

[Happy Hill Farmstead]

Right now the boys look like girls. I believe they are close to molting into mating plumage. @Quatie, are they going to molt soon?

He is 7 weeks old today

 

[Everose]

He is 7 weeks old today

My seven week olds are girly too.

 

[Quatie]

Right now the boys look like girls. I believe they are close to molting into mating plumage. @Quatie, are they going to molt soon?

Yeah. I think mine started to get their adult molts around 12 weeks. And then they will also go into an eclipse plumage usually during the summer and look like females again. They will also loose their drake feathers during that time.

These two pictures are of the same drake.

 

[Happy Hill Farmstead]

Wow! I had no idea they could change so much! Your duck is beautiful