jonasquinn
In the Brooder
This is a "pictures and stories of my flock" but I posted it here, for people that like ducks.
I hatched some eggs from my Welsh Harlequin drake and Khaki Campbell hens recently. I wasn't able to find many photos online of what they might look like. So, here's a whole heap of photos of what they look like, for anyone that's interested.
First, the bio parents. Thomas Ferdinand, Daniela, Anastasia.
I put 5 eggs under my broody muscovy Emmylou and all 5 hatched, just after 26 days.
Here they are on hatch day and broody mum.
Five days old. Two are lighter brown, one with white eyeliner. One brown with eyestripes. Two are dark with eye stripes, one with white eyeliner. Gender reveal hidden for those that want to guess. The three on the right with eyestripes were male.
Close up one week old.
Close up, just over two weeks old. Starting to get some chonk.
Nearly 4 weeks and a close up. Starting to feather. Getting chonky.
Nearly five weeks. More feathering, looking quite raggedy.
6 weeks, you can tell the sex by the patterning on their lower back. The one at the fore and the rightmost two are males, the patterning fades away rather quickly. Also their heads are starting to get a green sheen.
At 7 weeks it's easier to see. The two at fore are the females, patterning on lower back much more uniform.
A couple days later. Always giving me side eye.
Final photo of all 5 together at 8 weeks. They were eating far too much for my liking
, I sold the two girls and the boy at the front. Sneaky photobomb from Wanda.
The remaining boys about a week later. Right one's head is getting greener, some nice blue on their wings.
Final day for this guy at nearly 10 weeks. Trigger warning. I ate him.
Final boy at just over 10 and 11 weeks. With his new best bud, 2.5 week younger half sister welsh harlequin. I may post her story at a later date.
Last photo was from a few days ago. I'll keep updating with more photos of final boy when I can. He's currently molting from "teenage" feathering to his adult(?) feathering and getting those curly tail feathers.
For anyone interested, I'm happy to answer any questions.
I hatched some eggs from my Welsh Harlequin drake and Khaki Campbell hens recently. I wasn't able to find many photos online of what they might look like. So, here's a whole heap of photos of what they look like, for anyone that's interested.
First, the bio parents. Thomas Ferdinand, Daniela, Anastasia.
I put 5 eggs under my broody muscovy Emmylou and all 5 hatched, just after 26 days.
Here they are on hatch day and broody mum.
Five days old. Two are lighter brown, one with white eyeliner. One brown with eyestripes. Two are dark with eye stripes, one with white eyeliner. Gender reveal hidden for those that want to guess. The three on the right with eyestripes were male.
Close up one week old.
Close up, just over two weeks old. Starting to get some chonk.
Nearly 4 weeks and a close up. Starting to feather. Getting chonky.
Nearly five weeks. More feathering, looking quite raggedy.
6 weeks, you can tell the sex by the patterning on their lower back. The one at the fore and the rightmost two are males, the patterning fades away rather quickly. Also their heads are starting to get a green sheen.
At 7 weeks it's easier to see. The two at fore are the females, patterning on lower back much more uniform.
A couple days later. Always giving me side eye.
Final photo of all 5 together at 8 weeks. They were eating far too much for my liking
, I sold the two girls and the boy at the front. Sneaky photobomb from Wanda.
The remaining boys about a week later. Right one's head is getting greener, some nice blue on their wings.
Final day for this guy at nearly 10 weeks. Trigger warning. I ate him.
Final boy at just over 10 and 11 weeks. With his new best bud, 2.5 week younger half sister welsh harlequin. I may post her story at a later date.
Last photo was from a few days ago. I'll keep updating with more photos of final boy when I can. He's currently molting from "teenage" feathering to his adult(?) feathering and getting those curly tail feathers.
For anyone interested, I'm happy to answer any questions.
thanks for sharing. In my experience whenever I mix breeds they come out various shades of browns. These 4 lovely little ladies I hatched this year are 3/4 fawnwhite runner, and 1/4 cayuga. 
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