Mystery ducks?

[ThreeWillows]

Or it's a Call from mixed color flock...

Yep, could be. It's a mystery

 

[ThreeWillows]

Okay, not saying these are the parents, but I did find this pic on the breeder's facebook page this morning.

What do you think?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Okay, not saying these are the parents, but I did find this pic on the breeder's facebook page this morning. View attachment 1057950
What do you think?

Those look like Calls... bills are not as short or wide as what is wanted, but they have the roundness, short legs, shorter and thicker necks and nice rounded crowns of the heads...

 

[ThreeWillows]

Thanks!

 

[chickens really]

For reference look back at my Mini Appleyards....Mine have long necks and pea sized heads....Longer legs and nothing Call Duck about them.....

 

[ThreeWillows]

Chickens really, again, I can see the difference between the silver bantams and the calls, but what I am trying to determine at this point, and what Ravynscroft has helped me with so far, is where is the blue coming from? There are only two possibilities, as she suggested above: a mixed flock of calls, or another type of duck that carries blue, like Aussie spots.

Well, anyway, the suggestion that they are likely calls makes me feel a bit better. When I rehomed the others, I told the lady I thought they were calls. So, maybe that was the right thing to tell her after all.

 

[chickens really]

I run a mixed flock of Calls myself and get blues...So yes, Ravyn is possibly right with her thoughts....She is great and always knows colours....And Bantam breeds....

 

[WVduckchick]

I've given up trying to understand Call colors and patterns. Too many differences from US to UK, name this color this, and that color that, but here its this, and there its that.

Best of luck to you breeders that understand it all!

My main reason for commenting was just to say they are all beautiful!!

 

[ThreeWillows]

Thanks, Ravynscroft and WVduckchick.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thanks!

Very welcome...

And btw, those very well could be the parents... or part of the parents... blue gene in drakes dilutes the green head to steel grey or charcoal and also dilutes/washes out/fades the speculum (blue wingbar)...