Cayuga or mixed

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I have 4 “baby” ducks. One is a month old with feathers just starting to come in, the others are almost fully grown. I have a drake who is clearly pure Cayuga. I have a female who I was told was Cayuga, but with many white feathers I assumed were due to age. My other female is Rouen. My Cayuga mom hatched my 3 older babies and my Rouen hatched the 1 month old. All my babies have a few white feathers so I am wonderering if the are full or mixed. I will post pics of each below.

 

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Baby #1

 

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View attachment 1914092 Baby #1

Mixed with Rouen (is my guess), if you look closely there are faint ‘Rouen stripes’ on her head. We have a Black Swedish/Rouen female and she has similar markings around her face.

Is this the 1 month old?

By 2-4 months, males would have dark green heads. Females would too, if she were pure Cayuga, but female Rouens will keep their stripes and males will have green heads.

 

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Baby # 4

with Rouen mama. This is the month old who’s feathers are still coming in.

 

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Baby # 4View attachment 1914096 with Rouen mama. This is the month old who’s feathers are still coming in.

I think mama might have some Swedish in her. She has white on her wings like our Black Swedish’s do, which might be why the duck in question has white on his/her chest.

 

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Baby number 2, this one has a floof on it’s head that I thought was left over down, but isn’t going away

 

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Baby number 3, this one one is all back except the feathers you see

 

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Mama “Cayuga”