I need help identifying these two

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I’m thinking the smaller all brown with greenish tint head is a Khaki Cambell but I’d like to still get another opinion but I’m lost on the one with a blue wing…it’s got a curly feather on the tail, doesn’t have the markings of any of the drakes or looks like them to me. Let me know what you guys think…thank you
 

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They look more like a khaki crossbreeds to me, too much grey in the torso. The bills are blue, I have seen a blue billed khaki drake before, the majority of the khaki males have greenish bills. Most likely the crossbreed of Khaki and production Rouen. Drakes have two plumage types throughout the year, basic and nuptial. Nuptial moult is in winter(breeding season colors) and basic plumage in summer (female-like colors, the colors they had as juveniles) Male ducks moult very slowly compared to the females, even slower than chickens. Both appear to be Drakes.
 
I agree with AvianBrain. This is my Khaki x Appleyard drake in summer basic or eclipse plumage and winter nuptial or breeding plumage.
He has facial stripes and blue speculums like yours. Where did you get yours? If from a hatchery, maybe they are Golden 300 hybrids which are a Khaki cross?!
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I got them from tractor supply so they have no way of knowing which breeds are what just an educated guess because they come in all mixed together and unsexed.
Tractor Supply gets at least some of their ducklings from Hoover’s hatchery. I am not sure if it is all of their ducklings but I suspect it is. Hoover’s sells both Khaki Campbell’s and Golden 300s. I suspect you have one of each. This year they are advertising that they are going to be selling Dark Campbell’s too. I don’t think that is what either of yours are but I guess it is possible also.
 

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