Half pekin half rouen?

[Need_Not]

Last year my roeun duck had 6 ducklings and 2 of them looked like a yellow tinted roeun duckling.

Only one of them lived past 2 months. although when the other one died I'm almost sure it was a female because it did have some feathers and a female quack.

They turned out just like they looked like when they were ducklings

At the time she was born we had 2 roeuns (male and female), 2 male call ducks, and 2 pekins (male and female)

This year we had 3 sets of ducklings hatch and none of the ducklings that looked like that lived but 2 of them had an all black duckling with a lighter but still black bottom side.

Only 1 of them lived to start getting feathers but when it was almost done with it's first set of feathers it died which I'm guess is related to when it hurt it's leg when it was little and couldn't walk very well.
Although he was a male. Because he died I couldn't see what his male feathers would look like although its first set looked like normal rouen patterns and colors.

So could it be that the all black ones are male and the yellowish ones are female half rouen and pekin?

All the ones I can find online are a random mix of white and black patches on them.

Thanks!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I would say, maybe. Perkins and other white ducks are white because they are homozygous recessive for a gene which results in no color being added to the feathers. The weird thing is they can be carrying any of the colors you just can’t tell because it isn’t put in their feathers. So, if your male Pekin happens to have two recessive brown alleles, in other words he would be chocolate or brown if he wasn’t white. Then, you could have sex-linked ducklings. The yellow/brown ducklings would be female and black males. Unfortunately the only way to know what colors your Pekin has, is to do crosses and see how the offspring turn out. So, my answer is maybe.

 

[Need_Not]

I would say, maybe. Perkins and other white ducks are white because they are homozygous recessive for a gene which results in no color being added to the feathers. The weird thing is they can be carrying any of the colors you just can’t tell because it isn’t put in their feathers. So, if your male Pekin happens to have two recessive brown alleles, in other words he would be chocolate or brown if he wasn’t white. Then, you could have sex-linked ducklings. The yellow/brown ducklings would be female and black males. Unfortunately the only way to know what colors your Pekin has, is to do crosses and see how the offspring turn out. So, my answer is maybe.

I wonder if the pekin is a Buff duck because buff ducks look like the female but without the rouen patterns

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

What is the cause of your high death rate. I can't be on a high horse here because I have a severe predator problem and lose lots of ducks, but just want to see if I can help. That's lots of babies to lose so early.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I wonder if the pekin is a Buff duck because buff ducks look like the female but without the rouen patterns

Could be, buff is sex-linked.

 

[RainbowHen]

Could be, buff is sex-linked.

Would buff crossed with grey (Rouen coloration) still be sex linked?

 

[Need_Not]

What is the cause of your high death rate. I can't be on a high horse here because I have a severe predator problem and lose lots of ducks, but just want to see if I can help. That's lots of babies to lose so early.

A hawk! And sadly a few from kids coming over and throwing the ducklings like cats when their done ( I try to tell them to leave the ducks alone)
The duck in this post had 13 ducklings in May 3 of them were taken so I put up bird tape and it did the job! 10/13 of them lived! A month later the mom of the duck in this post had 12 more ducklings and I think 9 of them lived so I would say it was a success.

A week ago the yellow duck in this post had 9 more ducklings and this time the tape didn't help at all! Within 5 days a hawk got them all! Which I'm not too made about as my ducks went from 6 to 30 this summer and my backyard can't handle it

My pekins did have 5 ducklings this year 1 died as a duckling but about 3 weeks ago I noticed there were only 5 pekins I went outside and found one of the 2 month old pekins dead under a tree where they sleep

The duck had dried blood on it's beak but none dripping on the ground it had bleeding blisters
On both legs and went I went to bury the duck there was some sort of fluid coming out of it.
I don't know if it was water but I'm assuming it was water. None of my other ducks have had anything like it

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

So sorry. I don't know what that could be but watch your others in case it was contagious. A raccoon got in my coop last night and got my Pekin drake. So definitely not judging. What's your set up? Coop? Run? I had not had a coop death in over 2 years. And now this.

 

[Need_Not]

So sorry. I don't know what that could be but watch your others in case it was contagious. A raccoon got in my coop last night and got my Pekin drake. So definitely not judging. What's your set up? Coop? Run? I had not had a coop death in over 2 years. And now this.

I live in the country so I have a big backyard and fenced off then I just did some digging till i made a small river that leads to a lower part of ny backyard so when the river is full it makes a pond which is better than when I made a pond because it would get filled in with mud then overflow onto my patio and makes it very dirty

I used to leave the gate open to my front yard and let them rome wherever becuase although they aren't tame they always come back at night so they would leave in the morning eat bugs that might not be in the backyard sometimes swim in the irrigated rows in our field and then they would come back around noon and go back at the end of the day for a quick break then come back at sunset although there were a few times big dogs came in the yard and barked at the ducks thankfully we got them out but the coyotes sometimes got them and once that happend I stopped letting them out