Please help me ID my OD

[EMantooth]

This is OD -- "Odd Duck". It was the 6th of my "Pekin" duck eggs to hatch, but obviously was the odd one out of the batch. The lady I bought the eggs from didn't tell me she had any other type of duck besides Pekin. And her phone has since been disconnected. It hatched right on schedule on day 28 (2/18) with the Pekins, so that has messed up some of my ideas about a mule duck. I've since sold the Pekins before they ate me out of house and home, but we've kept OD especially since we had no idea what he/she is. It shares a coop with a Polish teenager -- they make for a funny pair but they are very attached to each other. Can y'all share your best ideas on what my sweet, shy OD is as far as breed and gender?
Thanks,
Eliza

 

[Quack Addict]

Looks like a hen mallard or rouen

 

[ShayBaby]

Definitely a mallard. Probably still too young to sex by color. Voice sexing should work by now, though. Quack=hen, peep=drake.

 

[desertdarlene]

It sorta looks rouen, but also looks like the Pekin-mallard crosses I see at the lake (such as the one in my avatar). Perhaps a male mallard snuck into her coop/pen and had a quickie with one of her Pekin hens. Or, it could be a regular mallard and perhaps a wild female put an egg in their pen.

It looks like a hen, so far.

 

[cymbaline]

I'm going to say Mallard; Rouens are large, and OD looks much smaller than the Pekins. I'll second ShayBaby and say if it's a girl, she'd be quacking your ears off by now, lol. I'd only ever had boys and the first time one of my babies made that honking noise I KNEW she was a female. If you'd like I can upload a video so you can hear what the girls sounds like. My babies are within a few days of the age of yours.

 

[EMantooth]

I'd love to hear your girls! To me, OD seems bigger than our wild mallards already...but maybe that's just because its been so well fed? Yes, it was definitely slower growing than the Pekins, though. Funny since the eggs were all similar and it was the same size at hatch...the Pekins just grew so much faster that it was amazing!

 

[cymbaline]

Here's my little "Turkey" She just peeps a little at first and then lets loose!



I started calling her that because she would run from me, so fast. The other babies would pretty much let me pick them up but noooooooo, she has to make me chase her all over creation, lol, and she is FAST. I didn't want to be yelling four-letter words at her, lol, so I just said come here you little turkey....and the name stuck.

It's tough to get videos of them quacking & carrying on because they usually only do it when either I leave or they get separated, and they hardly ever let themselves be separated, haha.


Regarding size, I was convinced for a while that my Bullwinkle was at least part Rouen because he has always been so much bigger than Rocky. Nope, Rocky's just a little small for a boy (2.5lbs) and Bullwinkle is on the very high end for a male (3.5 lbs)