Duck ID Needed w/Pictures

[brodysam]

I got these two at an auction yesterday. I think they are so pretty, but I'm at a loss as to what breed they are. Any ideas? The auction ticket listed them as "ducks" and nothing else. I'm not even sure if they are male/female.

**Please excuse their make-shift pen. We are in the process of expanding the original pen/s for the chickens and ducks.

 

[jenjscott]

they look like molting or yoiung khaki campbells, but maybe someone closer to ducks will come along.

 

[brodysam]

Thank you. Khaki's were my first guess as well, but they has a pretty silvery sheen to them so I wasn't positive. I think they are fairly young since they aren't much bigger than my 7 week old pekins.

 

[Goat_Walker]

They also look like my buff mallard cross drake.Prolly Khaki, but there is always a chance, lol. This is his winter feathering -sorry dont have a oic of his summer colors. They are slightly different in the blue to red ratio.

 

[brodysam]

Wow! He is gorgeous! I wonder if their heads will continue to darken and end up like his? Since they were listed as just "ducks," I figured there is a good chance that they are mixed breeds. I tried to listen to their quacks today, but I can't tell if the noises they are making are sure enough quacks or murmuring noises.

I guess I'll just have to wait for an egg or drake feather.

 

[Goat_Walker]

His smmer look gives him a slightly different look. Let me see if i can go get a pic for you.

 

[Goat_Walker]

I mean his colors are basically the same - but he has more ligth brown on his head and his colors are more fawn-ish

 

[Goat_Walker]

It looks like their heads will, just from those pictures. I dont know if they will be as dark as my drake but you never know.

 

[brodysam]

He really is good looking. It does look like their heads are changing colors. They don't appear to have had much human contact as their skittish, or I would take them out and get pictures of them in the sunlight.

 

[CityChicker]

Brodysam- Yours look like Saxonys or Saxony mixes. It is hard to tell though not knowing how old they are and how much of that is juvenile plumage.