Mare's Illegal Cute-ness (Call Duck) Chat Thread!!

[Deja_view]

@WVduckchick
This is the crested duckling at the bottom of the photo. I'm a relative newbie to call ducks, so I'm unfamiliar with the exact differences between some of the colors as ducklings.

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick
This is the crested duckling at the bottom of the photo. I'm a relative newbie to call ducks, so I'm unfamiliar with the exact differences between some of the colors as ducklings.

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Oh dear, that’s a cutie!! Large crest though. Watch her (and if any others are crested) very closely, especially early on. Being crested can be dangerous, but they are so friggin adorable!

I see blue bibbed, black bibbed, snowy, chocolate bibbed, blue fawn, white, grey, blue pied, and nutmeg (maybe butterscotch?). The fully yellow ones could be white or buff, I think.

 

[Deja_view]

Oh dear, that’s a cutie!! Large crest though. Watch her (and if any others are crested) very closely, especially early on. Being crested can be dangerous, but they are so friggin adorable!

I see blue bibbed, black bibbed, snowy, chocolate bibbed, blue fawn, white, grey, blue pied, and nutmeg (maybe butterscotch?). The fully yellow ones could be white or buff, I think.

None of the adults that I have are crested, so I wasn't planning on hatching any crested ducklings to begin with. But apparently there are carriers of the gene within my flock.
When I moved her head out of her shell during hatch, my heart kind of dropped a bit honestly. I don't really like the idea of crested ducks because of their increased risk for injury, neurologic issues, etc
Thankfully, that particular duckling has the largest crest. Most of the other crested ducklings have such small crests that I didn't even notice until they were fluffed up.

 

[Canadian Wind]

None of the adults that I have are crested, so I wasn't planning on hatching any crested ducklings to begin with. But apparently there are carriers of the gene within my flock.
When I moved her head out of her shell during hatch, my heart kind of dropped a bit honestly. I don't really like the idea of crested ducks because of their increased risk for injury, neurologic issues, etc
Thankfully, that particular duckling has the largest crest. Most of the other crested ducklings have such small crests that I didn't even notice until they were fluffed up.

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You may want to consider not breeding that duck anymore (if you know which ones are the parents). I agree it can be cute but that's just not worth all the potential health problems.

 

[WVduckchick]

None of the adults that I have are crested, so I wasn't planning on hatching any crested ducklings to begin with. But apparently there are carriers of the gene within my flock.
When I moved her head out of her shell during hatch, my heart kind of dropped a bit honestly. I don't really like the idea of crested ducks because of their increased risk for injury, neurologic issues, etc
Thankfully, that particular duckling has the largest crest. Most of the other crested ducklings have such small crests that I didn't even notice until they were fluffed up.

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Oh my gersh. Too cute!

 

[muddy75]

My ducks got impatient for feeding time and decided to do a little free ranging luckily we caught it and they went back in before the dogs noticed

 

[muddy75]

We took mama ginger and her 4 ducklings out to re-integrate with the flock today

 

[muddy75]

We took mama ginger and her 4 ducklings out to re-integrate with the flock today

She wouldn’t adopt “little duck” (my loner incubator baby) little duck decided to identify as a bantam chicken and is still in the brooder run.

 

[Strawberry74]

3 more babies hatched yesterday. One pipped at receding veins and didn't make it though. 19 eggs under broodies starting yesterday, chocolate and buff calls and a couple candy corn polish. Then I am gong to be done for the season.

 

[ChicksnMore]

I moved my adults out of their pen/coop area, clipped their wings and turned them loose with our goose and tortoise a little while back. It's a huge uncovered area with plenty of sheltered spaces for nesting or sleeping. It's taken them a bit to completely settle in, but I found my girl Peeky nesting today so they must be feeling comfortable. They certainly act happy. .
Can anyone tell me if I should keep clipping their wings? I keep seeing a lot of pictures of Calls that look like they're living without roofing to keep them in...does anyone ever lose a duck to flying away? Mine were used to free time in the garden and I've always clipped their wings, but now I'm wondering how necessary it is.