Please, show me your ducks

[Papaye]

they are going through a molt in those pictures (i dont have any good pictures of them when they are in their full beautie)

Weeeeeell... once they are "in their full beauty", do think to post pictures, pretty please...?
(Just... how can they be prettier yet?!)

i dont know if it is "Bibbed + Colour", or "Colour + Bibbed"

...I was under the impression I should put "Bibbed" before the plumage colour; and I always do, and nobody told me it was wrong of me...?

Wow...
...Hope someone will (dare to) correct me if ever I am wrong!

i think he looks most like a Dusky Pattern/Light-Harlequin Phase with Blue and Brown
his head is brown but when the light catches it his head has a green/blue sheen
his rump is dark brown
here are some luvenile pictures (he is in the front)

Yes.
I have looked at the pictures carefully, and Roady really looks like the Blue Spotted Dusky (Dusky Pattern/Light-Harlequin Phase with Blue) Indian Runner drake shown on Dusky Feathers Waterfowl's picture.

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thanks it was hard at first and i was so scared that it would happen to the others, she died wilst out in the main pen (in a smaller pen to keep them safe from the bigger ducks) the other ducks started fighting and she had a heart attack my dad was doing cpr ad litteraly breathing her back to life but she faded away in our hands, the others did not go back in their for a long time

Your father sounds like a great, good man : not everybody would try to save ("just") a duck... especially by going so far as to do CPR on her...!

You are not lucky, but you are not at fault : it was an accident. It happens, and there is nothing you could have done to prevent it...

...Sadly, if your girl has died so easily - from fear -, it is actually very possible she would actually have not survived long, given life is made of surprises, and so, she would eventually have a so big scare she would - very probably - have died because of that...

(Last Spring, I had ducklings die in their eggs - just before hatching... I have felt so guilty - especially given I could have saved some of them if I had made a hole in the air sac, and I just did not know about it then...!!)

maybe or i am calling their colours wrong (i know some of them thoungh)

If you are calling the colours wrong - and I am not telling you are -, you can still learn about them...
(What do I know? I have never even seen a Call duck in real life...!)

here is hiccup

and spot

For comparison, here are my Emory Penciled Indian Runner drake's juvenile feathers :

They - the brown feathers - are penciled in their juvenile phase.

But now he has almost completely gotten in his adult/nuptial plumage, the brown feathers are a solid brown :

That is the Emory Penciled colour...
...And Spot and - especially - Hiccup look like they are (kind of) mixed with this colour?

 

[Blue is my chicken]

Weeeeeell... once they are "in their full beauty", do think to post pictures, pretty please...?
(Just... how can they be prettier yet?!)

i sure can once they are done their molt i will send pictures (but they may not get their black feathers back till next spring so it might be a while)

Your father sounds like a great, good man : not everybody would try to save ("just") a duck... especially by going so far as to do CPR on her...!

You are not lucky, but you are not at fault : it was an accident. It happens, and there is nothing you could have done to prevent it...

...Sadly, if your girl has died so easily - from fear -, it is actually very possible she would actually have not survived long, given life is made of surprises, and so, she would eventually have a so big scare she would - very probably - have died because of that...

(Last Spring, I had ducklings die in their eggs - just before hatching... I have felt so guilty - especially given I could have saved some of them if I had made a hole in the air sac, and I just did not know about it then...!!)

yeah he is, he tried his hardest to save her. in our family nothing is ever "just" an animal they are family
i have thought the same thing that if she didnt die then she would have died of somthing else
we live and we learn

For comparison, here are my Emory Penciled Indian Runner drake's juvenile feathers :

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They - the brown feathers - are penciled in their juvenile phase.

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But now he has almost completely gotten in his adult/nuptial plumage, the brown feathers are a solid brown :

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That is the Emory Penciled colour...
...And Spot and - especially - Hiccup look like they are (kind of) mixed with this colour?

they do look similar

 

[Luv Ducks]

i have 14 ducks at the moment (and 12 chickens)
mainly call ducks (they are my fav breed dont tell the others!)

This is Buttercup and Puddle as babys they are black bibbed call drakes they are a year old now (the little grey duckling was johnny she die just before her first birthday this year she was a blue fawn)
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Buttercup (boy) blck bibbed
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Puddle (boy) black bibbed (with johnny in the picture too she was a blue fawn)
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blossom and roady (both boys) blossom is a silver appleyard and roady is an indian runner (i have no idea what colour roady is if anyone knows i would love to know)
as babys (roady is the one in the front and blossom is in the back)
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blossom is on the left with the green head and roady is on the left the brown one, they were hatched earlier this year
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my 4 khaki cambells (all girls) they are about 7-8 years old (the one at the back has water belly)
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this years hatch of call ducks (the first batch) lu lu did not make it sadly. they are all boys
as babys
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spot a bit closer he is cleaning in the first photo
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and the second batch, 2 of them have wonky feet
as babys
dot (girl) she is a blue pied
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hiccup (boy) (yes he is named after the boy from how to train your dragon he has a peg leg and so does the duck)
i think he is a magpie but i am not sure (any ideas?? more pictures below)
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peach (girl) i beleive she is an apricot pied
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and this is what they look like now
peach (girl) apricot pied
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dot (girl) dark one in the front right blue pied
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hiccup (boy) magpie??
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spot (boy). i think he is a magpie or a blue pied i am not sure (any ideas?)
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petunia (boy) white with a black spot on his back under his wings (he does not have a brown face he was just playing in the mud)
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pip pure white (the white one thats side is faceing us not the back one)
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that is all my ducks

Beautiful little ones. So since you have so many drakes do you keep a drake flock separated from the rest of the gals?

 

[Luv Ducks]

they are going through a molt in those pictures (i dont have any good pictures of them when they are in their full beautie)
i dont know if it is "Bibbed + Colour", or "Colour + Bibbed"

i think he looks most like a Dusky Pattern/Light-Harlequin Phase with Blue and Brown
his head is brown but when the light catches it his head has a green/blue sheen
his rump is dark brown
here are some luvenile pictures (he is in the front)
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thanks it was hard at first and i was so scared that it would happen to the others, she died wilst out in the main pen (in a smaller pen to keep them safe from the bigger ducks) the other ducks started fighting and she had a heart attack my dad was doing cpr ad litteraly breathing her back to life but she faded away in our hands, the others did not go back in their for a long time

maybe or i am calling their colours wrong (i know some of them thoungh)

here is hiccup
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and spot
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your welcome
and thanks

Such pretty ducks!!!

 

[Luv Ducks]

Weeeeeell... once they are "in their full beauty", do think to post pictures, pretty please...?
(Just... how can they be prettier yet?!)



...I was under the impression I should put "Bibbed" before the plumage colour; and I always do, and nobody told me it was wrong of me...?

Wow...
...Hope someone will (dare to) correct me if ever I am wrong!



Yes.
I have looked at the pictures carefully, and Roady really looks like the Blue Spotted Dusky (Dusky Pattern/Light-Harlequin Phase with Blue) Indian Runner drake shown on Dusky Feathers Waterfowl's picture.

​

Your father sounds like a great, good man : not everybody would try to save ("just") a duck... especially by going so far as to do CPR on her...!

You are not lucky, but you are not at fault : it was an accident. It happens, and there is nothing you could have done to prevent it...

...Sadly, if your girl has died so easily - from fear -, it is actually very possible she would actually have not survived long, given life is made of surprises, and so, she would eventually have a so big scare she would - very probably - have died because of that...

(Last Spring, I had ducklings die in their eggs - just before hatching... I have felt so guilty - especially given I could have saved some of them if I had made a hole in the air sac, and I just did not know about it then...!!)



If you are calling the colours wrong - and I am not telling you are -, you can still learn about them...
(What do I know? I have never even seen a Call duck in real life...!)





For comparison, here are my Emory Penciled Indian Runner drake's juvenile feathers :

View attachment 3952091

They - the brown feathers - are penciled in their juvenile phase.

View attachment 3952092

But now he has almost completely gotten in his adult/nuptial plumage, the brown feathers are a solid brown :

View attachment 3952096

That is the Emory Penciled colour...
...And Spot and - especially - Hiccup look like they are (kind of) mixed with this colour?

Such pretty ducks!!!

 

[Blue is my chicken]

Beautiful little ones. So since you have so many drakes do you keep a drake flock separated from the rest of the gals?

no i dont but the boys dont understand that the girls are the important ones yet
also they have not hit sexual maturaty yet so they dont hump anyone yet, they have tried it a couple times but i stop them if i see it because it is boy on boy rather than boy on girl
buttercup and puddle dont live with the girls (yet!) because the girls are so mean to them! they grab them by their feathers and shake them it is so mean i never expected them to do that

 

[talkinboutchickens]

I had a duck. She was a rescued mallard. found her in a grocery store parking lot. no parents or siblings or pond around. Her name was daisy. one night, came in to have dinner. 15 mins later, she was gone she had angel wing so she couldn't have gotten far at all if she flew. I'm suspecting a predator got to her but there were no feathers or blood.

 

[Luv Ducks]

I had a duck. She was a rescued mallard. found her in a grocery store parking lot. no parents or siblings or pond around. Her name was daisy. one night, came in to have dinner. 15 mins later, she was gone she had angel wing so she couldn't have gotten far at all if she flew. I'm suspecting a predator got to her but there were no feathers or blood.View attachment 3952190

Yes with Angel Wing they usually don't fly. I know my one that has it that had it when I first got him would never be able to. So sorry that something more than likely got yours.

 

[Apolinne]

Sorry... maybe a confusion on my part...

When I say Apricot, I mean Apricot Trout... so : Harold is Saxony coloured in my opinion.

(He is not Dusky, because if he was, he would not have the strips on his face - even in his juvenile plumage!)



Harlequin is Snowy.
...But then again : it would actually depend on the country/language?

Some people call Snowy "Silver", but others call the colour Splash "Silver".
So... what is Silver?

Same for the Snowy colour : the Harlequin phase of the Mallard pattern is usually called Snowy, but there are people who consider that "Snowy" is the Harlequin phase, but with gray wing speculum instead of blue...

In any case : to me, Hubert currently looks like an ordinary Harlequin coloured Indian Runner juvenile drake. Yes...

(Beautiful boy!!)

OMG this is so much fun but these colours and their names are killing me! So when you decide what colour a duck is, do you decide that by their nuptial feathers or by the eclipse feathers ? And are the eclipse feathers the same as the juvenile feathers were before the first molt ?

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

i sure can once they are done their molt i will send pictures (but they may not get their black feathers back till next spring so it might be a while)

I can wait!

yeah he is, he tried his hardest to save her. in our family nothing is ever "just" an animal they are family

That is a beautiful, respectable thing.

we live and we learn

Exactly.
Sometimes, life is hard; but at least, we learn the things we need to eventually make it better...

I had a duck. She was a rescued mallard. found her in a grocery store parking lot. no parents or siblings or pond around. Her name was daisy. one night, came in to have dinner. 15 mins later, she was gone she had angel wing so she couldn't have gotten far at all if she flew. I'm suspecting a predator got to her but there were no feathers or blood.

Whatever happened, Daisy lived a longer life thanks to you.
Your are not at fault if ever she was attacked by a predator... and angel wing or not, you can't know for sure if she "just" has not go away to live an ordinary, Mallard duck life... right?

...Daisy was really, really lucky to have met you...!

OMG this is so much fun but these colours and their names are killing me!

Ah, ah!

Try to learn the French name of these colours... you won't even know what to call some of them, because nobody here seems to know how they are supposed to be called...!
...like, for example : what exactly to call the different phases of the Dusky pattern...?

...We have so much less informations and pictures in French than in English...!!

So when you decide what colour a duck is, do you decide that by their nuptial feathers or by the eclipse feathers ?

By their nuptial feathers.
Determining the colour of a duck by its juvenile/eclipe feathers is not 100% effective.

But even though : the colour of their nuptial plumage can be different from what it is supposed to be, so just naming it can be complicated.

For example : I have a Light Dusky drake that currently looks like a Trout coloured drake...

Boy is born Dark Brown, like he should have for a Light Dusky Indian Runner duck...

And when his juvenile feathers emerged, he still was 100% Light Dusky coloured...

But then : next thing I know, he is growing out his wing feathers... and instead of the Dark wing speculum he should have, he got very Blue wing speculum (just : Purpler than my Trout drakes wing speculum)...

So : what do I call him?
Am I still right to call him a Light Dusky coloured drake?

He is born 100% Light Dusky, but his plumage don't look so (Light) Dusky coloured now...

(What about his genetic make-up?
...What will his offsrpings look like...?)

And are the eclipse feathers the same as the juvenile feathers were before the first molt ?

Yes. They are the same.

...There could be some differences, but really nothing major.
(My Black Runner drake, for example, loses ALL of his greenish shine when he is molting in his eclipse feathers... even though he was relatively green and shiny in his juvenile plumage...!)