MALLARD THREAD...not rouens, Mallards!

[kada6305]

And they'll grow up and have... MORE DUCKLINGS!!!!
Thanks. It's so funny to see them waddle up to me every morning!

Haha hopefully no more ducklings for a long time! I'm hoping I have 2 females and 1 drake. But we'll see

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

I have what I was told are mallard/call crosses- do those count? I love them to death!

Yep post away... never heard of that cross would love to see it!!

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

I have white mallards. Does that count?

I Have seen your mallards on other threads and I doubted them at first untill i kept reading and I am amazed ... white mallards!!! post away I love the pictures you have of them!

 

[melissamerry]

I Have seen your mallards on other threads and I doubted them at first untill i kept reading and I am amazed ... white mallards!!! post away I love the pictures you have of them!

Thanks! I didn't know this breed existed. But here they are, by their favorite tree ( it has the best bugs)

 

[carcar80]

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[fowlman01]

Reserve Champion of the Show APA Semi Annual Meet (Ventura CA) 4/13/13




Males




Walt

 

[zbraswell92]

Can mallards lay consistently with a good quality feed? I feed Nutrena All Flock 18% and they LOVE IT!
I've fed it to them since they were about 2 weeks old.
I know they are a wil breed, but how often do they lay? Will they only lay in the spring?
My 4 girls are now about 3 months old.
They are super cute!

The biggest one with the blue on her wing is Mallie. She's my favorite of the 4 Mallards.

 

[Apyl]

I have currently 4 mallards, we had 7 but a bald eagle took out two this winter and we recently lost one to a fisher. One of my hens is sitting on about 17 eggs . I also have a pekin, pekin/rouen mix, 2 rouen ducklings, and 3 mixed ducklings ( dad is my pekin/rouen mix and moms were one of my mallard hens and my pekin. ).


Here is a couple of the mallard with my pekin


The small chocolaty colored duckling is the mallard/pekin/rouen mix the other two are pekin/pekin/rouen mix.


From the winter


Last summer before we lost some of our girls.

 

[fowlman01]

Can mallards lay consistently with a good quality feed? I feed Nutrena All Flock 18% and they LOVE IT!
I've fed it to them since they were about 2 weeks old.
I know they are a wil breed, but how often do they lay? Will they only lay in the spring?
My 4 girls are now about 3 months old.
They are super cute!
The biggest one with the blue on her wing is Mallie. She's my favorite of the 4 Mallards.

They only lay in the spring. Sometimes they will lay two clutches, but if you want eggs they are not going to provide many.

Walt

 

[GarDenFarmGirl]

Walt, a may have an anomaly then... My mallard, Bella, started laying eggs last fall. She had laid an egg every day since then except one - she outlays every one of my chickens. She lays beautiful, great big eggs, and even lays them in one of my chicken's nests, so they stay nice and clean.