Good old Call Duck thread

[shawluvsbirds]

Guess what time it is.
That's right. It's a quick update and growth!
Out of the 13 I have earl grey and yuudachi remain with me. Little grey doesn't like the act of being picked up but doesn't mind after the action is complete and settles into my hand.
He's a fair bit bigger than yuudachi.
Images are more or less reverse chronological. They're now two weeks old and have gone from smaller than my lighter to the size of my hand. Kind of an amazing growth.
I have about 2 more weeks before I can start determining their sex.

Overall, I'd say yuudachi is the smarter one.yuudachi likes climbing up on my bed by using a small pile of blankets and a foot locker as a set of stairs View attachment 1489226 View attachment 1489227 View attachment 1489228 View attachment 1489229 View attachment 1489230 View attachment 1489231 View attachment 1489232 View attachment 1489233 see you all in a few weeks again!

Cute! Looks like a blue fawn and a gray. The black one is the gray. . ironically
I'll bet you named the gray color one earl grey?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh my goodness how adorable

 

[StormsnSaugeye]

Cute! Looks like a blue fawn and a gray. The black one is the gray. . ironically
I'll bet you named the gray color one earl grey?

Basically. I'm kind of curious as to what their adult plumage will look like. I am hoping at least one takes on a Mallard coloration.

 

[WVduckchick]

The darker one will be the mallard coloration, called "Gray" in call ducks. The lighter one is blue fawn. Same genetics, just the lighter one has one copy of the blue gene. Yours both look very nicely marked, so should grow out to look like the ones in the following chart.
(p.s. I never noticed this chart says "gray" as opposed to "grey". I've seen both spellings, always used "grey" myself.)

 

[StormsnSaugeye]

The darker one will be the mallard coloration, called "Gray" in call ducks. The lighter one is blue fawn. Same genetics, just the lighter one has one copy of the blue gene. Yours both look very nicely marked, so should grow out to look like the ones in the following chart.
(p.s. I never noticed this chart says "gray" as opposed to "grey". I've seen both spellings, always used "grey" myself.)
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Thanks for that. I figured Yuudachi would be closest to the Mallard coloration due to it being a straight black and yellow. They're now 2 weeks old. Already showing a fair bit of different. Earl Grey likes doing a good swim underwater once in a while too. Kind of interesting to watch.
Any word on when sexing will start becoming apparent? I am honestly shocked Earl Grey is a bit bigger than Yuudachi too. It makes me wonder if that's the first sex difference to appear.

 

[chickens really]

The darker one will be the mallard coloration, called "Gray" in call ducks. The lighter one is blue fawn. Same genetics, just the lighter one has one copy of the blue gene. Yours both look very nicely marked, so should grow out to look like the ones in the following chart.
(p.s. I never noticed this chart says "gray" as opposed to "grey". I've seen both spellings, always used "grey" myself.)
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[Lil Drake40]

I love the pic where they are on the kitty I thought it was a stuffed animal when I first looked at it.

 

[WVduckchick]

Thanks for that. I figured Yuudachi would be closest to the Mallard coloration due to it being a straight black and yellow. They're now 2 weeks old. Already showing a fair bit of different. Earl Grey likes doing a good swim underwater once in a while too. Kind of interesting to watch.
Any word on when sexing will start becoming apparent? I am honestly shocked Earl Grey is a bit bigger than Yuudachi too. It makes me wonder if that's the first sex difference to appear.

Usually the first indication is a female’s quack. When she gets her quack, you will know it. Much different than the little peep, peep, raspy sound they make when they are young. A Drake will always sound raspy, the female will sometimes, but only the females have the loud, full quack, quack, QUACK. Usually 4-10 weeks, I think is average for the quacking to start. the male drake feathers will appear around 13-15 weeks.

 

[StormsnSaugeye]

Thanks for the info.
Kind of late response because my company just got bought out.
Needless to say I'm a touch unemployed at the moment.

Anyways one neat feature I've begun noticing on earl grey here is this light colored neck ring. Not something I've seen before.
Thoughts?

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are so adorable

Sorry about your job