Mixed Breed Ducks!

[Anime2lover]

So far, my muscovy mix, oreo, has a zigzag white feathered pattern down his front.

 

[Bettyboop7499]

We have a lot of breed focuses on specific duck breeds - pekins, runners, cayugas, call ducks, etc... but we're forgetting to look at another cool kind of duck - the mixed breeds! There's a lot of cool looking duck crosses and I'd love to see pictures of all of yours if you have any mixes, whether intentionally or by accident!

To start off, we have 5 cayuga/pekin mixes. They look like swedish ducks, but ours have more green/purple sheens in their feathers, brown eyes, and stand differently. They are noisy, noisier than our pekin female, and seem to have 'obtained' the 'nervous pekin' quack gene. Namely, I threw a small rock at a branch that was lying against the electric fence where the pigs are to knock it down and they all started quacking loudly and running away from me!

They lay really good - from 4 mixed females and 1 pekin female we get 4 eggs a day, sometimes 5, and they're two years old. Never broody so far.

Females:




Drake:



What mixes do you have? What are they like? Do you have a favourite cross?

They are beautiful! I especially love the all black males. Great egg production!

 

[Bettyboop7499]

I would keep them all... but that's because I will one day be a duck hoarder.

I thinking duck math is a lot like chicken math!

 

[Bettyboop7499]

This is Salsa. He is a Khaki Campbell/ Silver Appleyard cross. I have 4 pure Khakis but he is my favorite.

He is gorgeous!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

He is gorgeous!

Thank you! He is two and a half years old now and has fathered many ducklings.

 

[Fisherlmiranda]

I'm very excited to see what the yellowish brown duckling on the upper left corner with the very dark eye stripes turns out to look like!

Heres my ducks, and I don't know who fathered who. It's just a free for all

 

[Fisherlmiranda]

I thinking duck math is a lot like chicken math!

Yes!

 

[happy duck]

I'm very excited to see what the yellowish brown duckling on the upper left corner with the very dark eye stripes turns out to look like! View attachment 1769239
Heres my ducks, and I don't know who fathered who. It's just a free for all View attachment 1769243

AAAAAAH To much cuteness!!!

 

[napinkerton]

We just hatched out 6 adorable little mutts! (#1-5 pictured together, #6 was a separate assisted hatch) Dad is a Pekin, moms are Runners (one Chocolate, one Blue). I know the one with the eye stripe is the Chocolate's baby, but couldn't keep track of her other one (she only had 2). The rest are from the Blue Runner. Super excited to see how these little ones feather out!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

So cute!