Preparing to set call and pekin duck eggs! Hatch day should be March 4, 2021 if all goes well!

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

I don't see any the heartbeats in my 12 eggs because their all dark! ( I'll post pictures later )

I’m looking forward to it!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Look at that precious thing. Looking good! Congrats

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

Look at that precious thing. Looking good! Congrats

Aww thanks! He really is a precious little fella! I’ve decided to name him wobbles!

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

Well the first baby (Chip) is a week old today, and he is huge!
Beans (only 1 day later) is about 1/4 the size

And the little black bibbed that I haven’t names yet was bigger than beans when he first hatched!
Beans is the tiny blue fawn! He is so itty bitty at 6 days old!

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

Here’s the little fella (wobbles)
He still is wobbly and can’t walks good so he hasn’t joined his siblings yet.

@Pyxis do you have a guess on the color of this little cutie? I haven’t a clue.

 

[Pyxis]

Here’s the little fella (wobbles)
He still is wobbly and can’t walks good so he hasn’t joined his siblings yet.

@Pyxis do you have a guess on the color of this little cutie? I haven’t a clue.

Black pied Basically he's black magpie but he only has one copy of the pied gene so the pattern isn't complete.

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

Black pied Basically he's black magpie but he only has one copy of the pied gene so the pattern isn't complete.

Oh wow! That’s awesome!
Thanks!! I’m so excited to see how he’ll feather out! I’ve never heard of a black pied.

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

Black pied Basically he's black magpie but he only has one copy of the pied gene so the pattern isn't complete.

Sorry to bother you but I have one more question.

Could my black bibbed be the father of this one? He was the only black duck that I had.

 

[Pyxis]

Sorry to bother you but I have one more question.

Could my black bibbed be the father of this one? He was the only black duck that I had.

He could be, yes The mom would have to be pied in that case.

I’ve never heard of a black pied.

It's because it's called Magpie and not pied when it's on solid colored birds. Yours only has one copy of pied, though, so he's not going to have the correct magpie pattern. That's why I called him Pied.

I've had one just like this.