Pekin Ducklings

[Gossling]

Good Morning

Thanks to a lot of good advice on this site, I managed to successfully hatch all three my Pekin duck eggs over the weekend in my homemade incubator "so excited!!!" but all three my little ones are black???
I was expecting fluffy little yellow ducklings, not that I mind

but can anyone tell me why they are black?

Also when can they have their first swim?

Thanks D

 

[elsfieldchickens]

could be runners or cyugas

 

[Gossling]

Hi there,

But all three my eggs came from my only two pekin ducks " a male & female obviously"

Thanks anyway

 

[NCBantam22]

Could be a case of egg switcheroo. Bob puts runner eggs under broody pekin, doesn't tell Sam. Sam gets the eggs and sells them to you. Or you could have a completely new breed, The Black Pekin!