Duckling breed help!

[EmilyR24]

Hello!
I am new here, from beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada! I have 9 chickens, but have recently aquired 2 ducklings! I am not very familiar with ducks but have raised chicks. I am curious to what breed they are, I was told they may be domestic mallards(that's what their mother is), but they do not seem to look like any domestic mallard ducklings I find on the Internet. Could come one help? They are a week and a half old, eating chick starter(NON-medicated) Thank you! smile.png

 

[lomine]

Cute! They look like Black Swedish but if they truly hatched from a Mallard's eggs they would be mix breed.

 

[Orca5094]

My guess would be Mallard/Cayuga mixed breeds. I think most breeds mixed with Cayuga end up with ducklings that look just like these. For example, I have Rouen/Cayuga mixes and they looked just like yours as ducklings:

 

[EmilyR24]

Wow! Thank you for all the help, I can't wait to see what they mature into.

 

[Orca5094]

Here's the 3 I kept for myself from the above batch, they are now a little over a year old: