Egg hoarding duck! Requested pic of Mallard/Pekin cross pg 3

[nettie]

i wonder if that's how black swedish's came about.... everything had to be bred from a mallard at some point, lol...


We don't eat our eggs either... we give them to my friend's who are chefs at a fancy restaurant downtown,. lol... if they both get layin again, they want to include some duck egg dishes on their menu. it'a a small restaurant, so if they don't get enough they use them in recipes for food they make for themselves before they open.

 

[WriterofWords]

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LOL Been there done that! All of my ducks tend to get "friendly" with each other. The babies I just let go were the offspring of that cross (who needs a name) and Twinkie the Runner. I also have a gun-metal grey Runner drake who has visited the ladies often, but he's young yet and I'm not sure it takes from him.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

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Mallard/Pekin cross??? Okay WoW, I need a pic of that duck! LOL

Laurie

Here she is! She is black with a white chest and other white markings, very heavy, and with green hi-lites on her head like a drake! The ducks with her are Hershey and Twinkie and that is a raggedy Nugget in the foreground!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5415_1119091638.jpg

She's gorgeous!!! I love her!!

Thanks for the pic WoW!!

Laurie

 

[WriterofWords]

Most welcome Tennessee!

 

[purr]

i'll have to get pics but my babies are mallard pekin crosses and the male looks just like his mallard daddy but the female looks just like yours. I kept thinking how did a swedish get in my yard and leave an egg? I was perplexed but now I see that it is common. My females are both mallard pekin crosses one brown and the other grey. So having a black duck hatch was totally unexpected

 

[WriterofWords]

Almost all of them were dominant black but two were white with black wings. I didn't get pics of them though, before I sold them.