Difference between Rouen and Mallard.

[mrshwagner]

How are Mallards for laying eggs?

 

[Mountain MommaWV]

we have had two sets of Mallards, one last summer and the ones I ordered this March. Different hatcherys have different ways of identifying them but because it’s illegal to take wild mallard eggs and incubate they mark “domestic mallard “ often by clipping a back toe on one leg. Both sets of my mallards were marked this way. Also, I noticed long before male sounds, male colors, and tail curls were evident my males alll had dark feathers behind their wings over the tail. Hens all had the lacy brown feathers.
Mallards are really small almost like bantam ducks

Anyone wanna take a guess on mine? Im so confused if I have Mallards or Rouens and I think I'm driving my husband crazy now going back and forth between the two possibilities and then I am making it harder not knowing the sex!

 

[Mountain MommaWV]

How are Mallards for laying eggs?

Our mallards were excellent layers but often wanted me do Easter egg hunt!

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

the first 3 pictures are of my rescue mallard baby from last year, and the last 3 are of my new rouen baby. mallards are very small and usually have one full eye stripe while rouens have two. they are also smaller than rouens. my mallard at one week was about the size of my rouen at 2 days. (but before i rescued the mallard he was picked on by older ducklings and didn’t get much to eat, and was always just a bit extra small) they could also be a mixed breed but that seems unlikely

 

[DuckDuckGooseMum]

we have had two sets of Mallards, one last summer and the ones I ordered this March. Different hatcherys have different ways of identifying them but because it’s illegal to take wild mallard eggs and incubate they mark “domestic mallard “ often by clipping a back toe on one leg. Both sets of my mallards were marked this way. Also, I noticed long before male sounds, male colors, and tail curls were evident my males alll had dark feathers behind their wings over the tail. Hens all had the lacy brown feathers.
Mallards are really small almost like bantam ducks

Mallards actually ARE a bantam breed. Rouens are like their standard sized cousins. Also someone said Mallards are the size of call ducks. They are not. Call ducks are smaller than Mallards. I will try to post photos of mine next to one another for reference as I have all 3. They are similar in color and appearance, but there are differences and each is a specific breed in and into itself.

 

[BrennerHomestead]

Ok so thats not a good title. I know that Rouen is the domesticated version of the Wild Mallard and that Rouens are larger.

We bought 3 Rouens this spring as day olds from the local feed store. They were labeled as Rouens and when they are a day old you kind of have to take their word for it.

Well today we went to our local fair and were looking at the ducks. In the one pen they had Rouens, the thing is these things were huge, like the size of a Pekin. My Rouens are half the size of these.

Other than size is there a way to tell if I have Mallards or Rouens?

This is the best picture I have of them.

I understand that this is an ancient post. But from everything I have researched about ducks. The original mallard is basically the god duck of all domestic ducks. I have seen a lot of information that they are a smaller duck not quite as small as calls or wood ducks but pretty close. Alot of the images I see are more Rouen ducks than mallard. Pekins and Rouen are about the same size when buying from farm stores. Original Mallards are half the size of Rouens. I have had Rouens before and had people say"they have Mallards" simply because of the colors.