Help Identifying my Ducks

[Lovedolphin13]

Hi!
I recently hatched 2 ducks and I got the eggs from ebay. I searched hard to find mallard duck eggs for sale and thought I found a good seller, but when they hatched one of them didn't look like a mallard. It was yellow, now turning white. I thought it was a pekin but im not sure... Is it possible for it to be a goose mixed breed? His head is kind of rectangular. And the other looks more like a mallard but his beak and feet are darker and not yellow like pictures iv seen. I would be very grateful for help identifying the ducks. If anyone has a guess to the genders that would be helpful too even if its only a guess. They are about 4-5 weeks old. I'll still love them even if there not the exact ducks I was hoping for.

 

[Krystal1983]

What a beautiful duck! I have no idea of the breed though. Sorry.

 

[Stipenvlerk]

Is the bill of the white one that light? Or is it the picture?

[edit: if so, my guess would be: Rouen duck (French type) and Peking duck]
So excited what the others think!

 

[Lovedolphin13]

Is the bill of the white one that light? Or is it the picture?

The sun is probably making it a little lighter than usual. Here is another picture before they started molting, and a better picture of there beaks.

 

[Stipenvlerk]

The sun is probably making it a little lighter than usual. Here is another picture before they started molting, and a better picture of there beaks. View attachment 2668497

They are adorable...
If they are bigger than a mallard pullet of this age, my guess would be: Rouen and Peking!

 

[Stipenvlerk]

Video of 5 weeks old Rouen

Video of 5 weeks old Peking
They say males tend to have more orange bills as females tend to have more pink bills...
Excited what others might say....

 

[Lovedolphin13]

Video of 5 weeks old Rouen

Video of 5 weeks old Peking
They say males tend to have more orange bills as females tend to have more pink bills...
Excited what others might say....

Those videos are so helpful!! Thank you. I didn't even know what Rouen duck was before, I never would have guessed... I think your spot on! The body shape and size is so much like my lil ducks. I have no idea what the seller was thinking when labeling the eggs mallard lol. Thank you again! I have been guessing for weeks, It feels nice having clue what they are.

 

[Stipenvlerk]

Those videos are so helpful!! Thank you. I didn't even know what Rouen duck was before, I never would have guessed... I think your spot on! The body shape and size is so much like my lil ducks. I have no idea what the seller was thinking when labeling the eggs mallard lol. Thank you again! I have been guessing for weeks, It feels nice having clue what they are.

Rouen ducks are very friendly, as are Peking. So if they turn out to be what we think they are, you are very lucky...
The color of the dark one is called mallard.

 

[Lovedolphin13]

Rouen ducks are very friendly, as are Peking. So if they turn out to be what we think they are, you are very lucky...
The color of the dark one is called mallard.

The color? So the pattern of the duck is called mallard, if I understand correctly? If so, were they talking about the pattern and not actually a mallard duck?

 

[Stipenvlerk]

The color? So the pattern of the duck is called mallard, if I understand correctly? If so, were they talking about the pattern and not actually a mallard duck?

Maybe! I'm not the right person to ask because english is not my native language .
We would call it "Wildkleur" (wild color, color of the mallard duck ) and translate it as Mallard in English documents.
Or "donker wildkleur" (dark wild color) which, at my side of the ocean, translate to Dusky Mallard.
So it could be....