Please, show me your ducks

[Papaye]

Hi!

I was finally lucky enough to take a good picture of my White-Winged, Bibbed Black Indian Runner duckling - now one-and-a-half-months old :

Just wow... right?
(Okay : the wing feathers are not totally emerged, so we actually don't see anything so impressive... But just to IMAGINE...!!)

Also, just to post a picture I find nice to look at :

I know it is actually not a good picture, but I like how the blue feathers are contrasting with the other colours here...!

...In any case, I so prefer to look at pictures from others than the ones I take...
So, do keep posting pictures, please! (And stories of your ducks are so welcome...!!)

And if somebody has Cayuga ducks, Khaki Campbell ducks, Saxony ducks... or other breeds, OR crosses of whatever breeds...
...just do show them if you please...!!

Thank you!!

Momma is a call duck Wiggles and dad is an Indian runner Waggles (he flew away after she started sitting in eggs).

...Did Waggles end up returning home?

I have 4 gray and yellow ducklings and 3 black and yellow ducklings. Can't wait to see what they will look like when there feathers come in.
Do they take after mom or dad? If anyone has any insight, I'd love to know. So far at 2 weeks, tail, back and wing feathers are coming in. The grey and yellow chicks seem to be getting more color in their bills and feet.

I can't tell if they take more after their mom than their dad... but I really would like for you to post pictures as they grow up.
An Indian Runner x Call duck is a cross I know a lot of people would like to see - myself included...!!

I can’t believe they already have feathers!

So cute...!!
How can they be so adorable...?!!!

They seem to stand at my back door and wait for me! - Dusty definitely is very full of character & much smaller in comparison to the other two!

...Did you end up finding out if they are drakes...?

Dusty and Kowalski really look like they are (for what it's worth : I have no doubt), but still hard to say for Mango...
But if his voice is still raspy, then he is a boy.

Would be preferable for Mango to be a drake, since you won't have to give away any duck if all of them are drakes...

(Do they sleep in an Eglu Classic?)

 

[Jaz_aubriana]

I need to get better pictures with their winds fully spread! Both are white tipped! Such gorgeous colourings (almost look like little angels wings! ) yes they all have very raspy but loud tweets so male I assume!

I would love to breed some with beautiful colour ways

 

[PuddlesandWaddles]

They are five weeks old now!

 

[Papaye]

I need to get better pictures with their winds fully spread! Both are white tipped! Such gorgeous colourings (almost look like little angels wings! ) yes they all have very raspy but loud tweets so male I assume!

Oh.My.God...
I so did not realize Kowalski's wing were so white...!!
He is so beautiful I don't know what to say.

Your pictures are great!

I tried to take pretty similar ones, in the afternoon; so...

On our right on the picture is a juvenile, Trout Indian Runner duck's spread wing :

...My ducks' feathers are so iridescent I actually noticed some of my Trout drakelets shining even green/turquoise on their blue speculums...!!

Again on our right on the picture is a juvenile, Light Dusky Indian Runner's spread wing :

...Or - still on our right, but another Light Dusky Runner drakelet's spread wing :

My Light Dusky Indian Runner drakes' speculums are actually dark blue... or just (lighter) blue for some of them... but NOT as dark/black as they look like here...
(...A shame I could not take pictures of their spread wings just when sunlight hits them (on the speculums) perfectly...!!)

They are five weeks old now!

Much too cute...!!

(I really want to see their adult plumage...)

 

[ilovemybabychickies]

This is my baby girl named Daisy who was a wild duck that I found as a few day old baby wandering a super busy parking lot with no mama to be seen, we took her in and she was with us for about a year but then suddenly was gone and we think she flew away. No feathers to be seen and we did not hear her. She was the best.

 

[Papaye]

This is my baby girl named Daisy who was a wild duck that I found as a few day old baby wandering a super busy parking lot with no mama to be seen, we took her in and she was with us for about a year but then suddenly was gone and we think she flew away. No feathers to be seen and we did not hear her. She was the best.

Your Daisy is simply a.do.ra.ble.
Thank you for the picture!

You say she was a wild duckling... weird she was alone, lost on a parking lot!

She was really lucky to have found you : if you had not taken her in, she probably would have died really fast from hunger, cold, or from an accident.

 

[ilovemybabychickies]

Your Daisy is simply a.do.ra.ble.
Thank you for the picture!

You say she was a wild duckling... weird she was alone, lost on a parking lot!

She was really lucky to have found you : if you had not taken her in, she probably would have died really fast from hunger, cold, or from an accident.

Thank you so much! That means a lot ♥

 

[Gem of the woods]

Wow you take amazing pictures and have great descriptions.

 

[notallducksinmypond]

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are those the ones from duskyfeatherswaterfowl? the trout project? ´cause none of them is trout , two mallard ,one brown mallard an a lavender

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

I took a lot of pictures today, so I'm posting some of them...

(Please : keep posting your pictures.)

Here, we can see the underside of the wing from a juvenile, Trout Indian Runner :

I could not take a better picture, but if someone want to see a good one, just go on Dusky Feathers Waterfowl's website : they take and show really good pictures!

Here is a juvenile, Bibbed Black Indian Runner girl... next to a juvenile, Light Dusky Runner flapping his wings :

I just like to see how strong my Indian Runner looks here while flapping his wings...
(Ducks have a strong back, but we actually really can tell when we see them flapping their wings.)

Here is my favorite Light Dusky Indian Runner drakelet, with his wing semi-spread :

...If you want to explain how my Light Dusky drakelet can have so blue speculum on his wings... please go ahead, because I was persuaded it was not possible...?
(He really is Light Dusky coloured, and NOT a Spotted Dusky drakelet!!)

His mom is a Light Dusky hen; and his dad is EITHER a Trout drake, OR a Bibbed Black drake.

Here is my Bibbed Black Runner drakelet with white feathers on the wings :

He is still growing.
...I am patiently waiting for him to be an adult, and maybe have more white on the wings.

(Breeding him with another Dusky girl in order to make whiter-winged ducklings would be great.
I have a plan for that, and now I know how beautiful they would look like : I hope to eventually get semi-white-winged ducklings!)