Please, show me your ducks

[JacinLarkwell]

They are so beautiful...!!
Especially the Emory Penciled (Fawn and White) drake, in my opinion!! (What can I say? I just love this colour...!!)

Is the one at the center a Dark Grey/Mallard coloured drake?

Yes

And do you already know what boy you will be keeping?

(Thank you for the picture.)

Keeping the Penciled and the Pastel in the back. The middle Grey and the Pastel in the front are hopefully going to be sold.

 

[Luv Ducks]

I have stopped getting notifications on this thread so to keep me I the loop I will post some cute pictures
Baby Johnny, blue fawn call duck, she was a lone hatch, her first week she only had human friends, she broke our hearts when she past away earlier this year she was not even a year old
Just hatched (evening)
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The next morning
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Her absolutely favourite place, my bra I padded it with a fleece blanket I made so she could be really comfy
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Settled in her cage fast asleep
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Her second favourite place my hair
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First time outside
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Hope you enjoy the cute pictures

She was so precious and thanks for sharing such beautiful pictures of her, so sorry for your loss.

 

[Luv Ducks]

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Calls. The far left is a hen, the other 4 are drakes. Obviously not the permanent number, thats just what I ended up with out of the 5 I got

May I ask where you got yours from? My two came from Metzer's and I was lucky to get a drake and a hen in the color Pastel that I wanted.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

May I ask where you got yours from? My two came from Metzer's and I was lucky to get a drake and a hen in the color Pastel that I wanted.

Same place. That's why my ratio was as bad as it was

 

[Luv Ducks]

Same place. That's why my ratio was as bad as it was

Sorry you got so many drakes. I usually always buy sexed ducks from them but as we both know the Call's are not able to be sexed as they are so small and the fear of hurting them. I was just lucky to get a female but since she is sooooooo loud, lucky I got a drake too.

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

I also re-discovered another one of my ducks has white on his wing Yes, wing! Singular! I saw this feather when his wings were first growing in, but I never saw it again once grown, so I was very confused. I just found it again last night and took some photos this morning. As you can see, he has a sneaky white feather only present in his right wing.

I just noticed one of my 7-weeks-old Duclair drakelets has a single white feather emerging from his right wing :

It doesn't look like he has any white feather on his left wing!

I know for Black Duclair ducks, white feathers on the wings means the duck is not accepted in the standard (colour)...
But I don't know for Blue coloured Duclair ducks...

yes it is normal after you haven't posted something on that thread for a while it stops sending notifications the longer the thread goes on for the quicker it stops the notifications or at least this is what I have found

Oooooooh... Thank you for the information!!

The middle Grey and the Pastel in the front are hopefully going to be sold.

Hope for you they do sell!

I would really like to see some more pictures of your ducks - especially your Emory Penciled one...
So, do not hesitate to post some more...!!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Hi.



I just noticed one of my 7-weeks-old Duclair drakelets has a single white feather emerging from his right wing :

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It doesn't look like he has any white feather on his left wing!

I know for Black Duclair ducks, white feathers on the wings means the duck is not accepted in the standard (colour)...
But I don't know for Blue coloured Duclair ducks...



Oooooooh... Thank you for the information!!



Hope for you they do sell!

I would really like to see some more pictures of your ducks - especially your Emory Penciled one...
So, do not hesitate to post some more...!!

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

Thank your for the pictures, @JacinLarkwell : your boy is really pretty, and deserve to be shown on the internet (ah, ah!)!!

No, seriously : I am sure there are other people who would like to see pictures of Emory Penciled ducks... Call drake or not.

 

[notallducksinmypond]

Hi.

Sorry for replying only now : I don't have the time I would want to have...!

I'm confused about the difference between Lilac and Lavender... but I have to say : even in France, there seems to be a confusion between Lavender and Splash...?
I don't know if we call different colours differently according to the country/language... or if it is because people don't know how some colours should be called?

My knowledge was:

lavender = brown + one blue (Bl/bl, d/(d))
Lilac = brown + two blue (Bl/Bl, d/(d))
Splash/ silver = black + two blue (E/e or E/E, Bl/Bl)

Personally, I would not call this colours Lavender, but Lilac.
But what do I know?

In any case, it is a favorite of mine : I find this colour just splendid (even on the drakes)!!

(Do think to tell what colour it is, once you can!!)

If i Happen to get my hands on a brown drake (wich turns out to be close to impossible) i will pair them.
if she is lavender (single blue on brown) 50% of the ducklings would be brown and 50% would be Lavender like her
if she is in fact lilac (double blue on brown) all of the ducklings should be lavender (single blue on brown)

I think she is Bibbed, but you also could call her "Pied"...?
Does she have a Pied parent OR grand-parent...? (She looks like she does.)

Sadly i don´t know anything about the parents of her and her sisters (the lavender one and the (faulted?) trout) i get them out of a very small enclosure from people who bought "cute ducklings" that were "to messy" as they hit 6 weeks

In my humble opinion, she has the Dusky gene in her...!

When I cross my Trout Runner drake with my Light Dusky Runner hen, I get some FAULTED Trout coloured ducks from them : they are Trout coloured, but have an additional white line on their blue speculum... like yours have.

As for the white wing tips : if I cross my Bibbed Black drake with a Ligh Dusky hen, then some of their babies are Bibbed Black coloured with white on the wings...

(I'm trying to understand the genetic responsible for the colours!! Ah, ah!)

He is seriously so beautiful!!

But he is not in his nuptial plumage, right...?
Would you mind posting a picture of him when he is?

there you have it, still some feathers left to change but mostly done

Is is maybe from a Dark Dusky parent? (I ask because of the lack of claret bib WITH the green head.)

he is out of a big flock of 17 ducks, some of his siblings (at other people, they were from hatching eggs) show complete dusky in various shades
i will see what pops up next year

Yeaaaah... she has Dusky, right?
(Really beautiful!!)

she is also from the big flock, maybe dusky , yes

Oh yeah... stunning alright!!

"Blue Trout" is also called "Saxony" - like the breed... right?

I have recently bought a Saxony coloured Indian Runner drake with his hen... and if I am lucky, I should have them home mid-October!
I just fell in love with this grey head and yellow bill (on the drake)...

The hens are also very much beautiful, with their light, yellowish and white feathers...!

(After looking with the calculator, I have found I can get some beautiful coloured babies with even one Saxony parent!)

NO
gradient goes:
trout (no blue) - blue trout (single blue) - apricot trout (double blue)
Apricot trout is similar to saxony and "blau gelb"

the two boys in the front:
top/lighter: apricot trout (or saxony or blau gelb)
the darker one/bottom: blue trout

 

[Papaye]

Hi!

Here is Beau - my Splash coloured Duclair drake -, at almost 3-months-old :

And... :

I am so waiting for him to (entirely) wear his nuptial plumage...!!

My knowledge was:

lavender = brown + one blue (Bl/bl, d/(d))
Lilac = brown + two blue (Bl/Bl, d/(d))
Splash/ silver = black + two blue (E/e or E/E, Bl/Bl)

And yet, my Lavender Indian Runner hen is what is called "Splash" or "Silver" elsewhere...

...This Lavender girl, on our left here :

Called "cane Coureur Indien Lavande" in France...
...but "Splash Indian Runner hen" elsewhere...

Clearly, we would actually need to wait for a definitive standard to be established (internationally) in order to know exactly how to call some colours...!

If i Happen to get my hands on a brown drake (wich turns out to be close to impossible) i will pair them.

...You can fin your Brown Runner drake in France if ever you come here... even though some of them are NOT Chocolate.

("Chocolate" is actually a shiny Brown, just to be precise...)

if she is lavender (single blue on brown) 50% of the ducklings would be brown and 50% would be Lavender like her
if she is in fact lilac (double blue on brown) all of the ducklings should be lavender (single blue on brown)

Yeah... so, it takes time to know what gene she has...

Just to know : does "Brown x Lavender" give sex-linked ducklings?

Sadly i don´t know anything about the parents of her and her sisters (the lavender one and the (faulted?) trout) i get them out of a very small enclosure from people who bought "cute ducklings" that were "to messy" as they hit 6 weeks

Hmmmm... of course, ducks are messy!
(And of course, ducklings grow up!!)

The ones who took some of my Indian Runners did not know much about ducks; but at least, they wanted to learn...!
(And thanks to that, I could teach them some things so they were not surprised by the ducks!)

...You did good by taking away the ducks : there are people who are not ready to - or just should never - have animals in their care...!

there you have it, still some feathers left to change but mostly done

Wow... Salix is beautiful!!

he is out of a big flock of 17 ducks, some of his siblings (at other people, they were from hatching eggs) show complete dusky in various shades
i will see what pops up next year

Do you, maybe, have Fairy coloured ducks in this group?

NO
gradient goes:
trout (no blue) - blue trout (single blue) - apricot trout (double blue)
Apricot trout is similar to saxony and "blau gelb"

Yes! I know that now!!

I thought then Blue Trout was another way to call the Apricot Trout (Saxony) colour...
...but after making some more research, I could find pictures, and so, compare these colours... and eventually conclude that Blue Trout drakes have darker coloured head AND rump (than Apricot Trout's)!

That's the colour Blue Fawn (Blue Mallard) that I find impossible to differenciate from Blue Trout... on the DRAKES at least. (The hens look different!)