but mallards wild or domesticated can have different genes right? i mean its rare, like how an apricot wood duck could come from two regular parents. Mallards exhibit more than one color mutations right? so whose to say it isn't a black mallard? in all relativity color mutations happen all the time and we can't prove that this duck is mixed bred bc we haven't seen the relative size of the bill in person and by the looks of it the duck looks as big as just like a female mallard just black. Maybe if we were to see the duck in person we could see faint wild markings on her? so in response to you just being a hunter doesn't mean you have seen everything. and you can't prove Buff-goose-guy wrong on his ducks if he has the papers that says that she is a pure black mallard then we can't prove him wrong.
the bill looks like the size of a mallard to me.yes of courseone black born that day the other is split for black and was born 3 days earlier (this years hatch)
an egg
here is my main female hanging with some rouens before breeding season when i have to separate them
Walt LOL, i didn't think to use a Black East Indie because i don't have any! Walt, saw you at the Red Bluff CA show last year, was thrilled! I think You and i are on the same page, those wild mallards are in a class of their own. I remember as a youngster out duck hunting, most mallards we shot had orange feet, but sometimes they had pink feet, there are many different strains of wild mallard! Sometimes the hens are very light colored with a mostly white breast and sometimes they are very dark with a penciled underside, but one thing they always have in common is a single eye stripe. I remember when out duck hunting when flights of Northern Mallards would drop out of the sky by the 10's of thousands, oh what sight! Those days are gone. .Most domestic ducks.....as I'm sure you know, have Mallard in them. Domestic ducks are all Mallard derivitives other than Muscovys. Why didn't you use East Indies for the cross? I crossed Calls to Mallards for flying birds to train falcons and they came out looking like Calls or sometimes Mallards. They can fly, but not that great. The falconers wanted a small flying bird that wasn't as strong as a real Mallard. Real wild Mallards can beat up a young falcon, so they wanted something that wasn't too strong. It is actually kind of hard to find real Mallards now. Here is an Indie
Mallard Walt
uh, if i was a different person then how could i not be me? Mind twister lol, no i'm not i was just reading along the thread and saw some chatter and thought to give my opinion, sorry i tend to speak my mind lol
