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

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

Pekin vs white call:

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I’ve got a question. From this hatch I only had one pekin mix duckling and one itty bitty call. Do you guys think it will be ok if I put them together? Faith (the bigger one) is so energetic I’m worried she’ll trample the little fella! Faith is about 24 hours old.

I would give it a try and see how it goes. I Put the younger calls in with the older ones that were twice their size it worked out fine this last go round. They are tougher than ya think.

 

[Painted Calls]

The Butter

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

I would give it a try and see how it goes. I Put the younger calls in with the older ones that were twice their size it worked out fine this last go round. They are tougher than ya think.

Thanks for the advice! I gave it a try! They are doing great, best friends! That’s them in the post above!

 

[FunnyfarmMidwest]

The Butter
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So cute! Little butter is melting my heart!

 

[Painted Calls]

Flipper begging for peas. He's so patient.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Should be a fun thread!

I noticed some black bibbed calls among some pics, can’t remember who they belong to, that have white stripes on the speculums. All my blacks have always had black speculums until now, I noticed yesterday one of white momma’s daughters has white stripes. Anybody know how/why?
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My two youngest Calls, Miley and Maggie are like this. I chatted with Pyxis about it and she said they were incomplete magpies. That also explains the little bit of white on my girls faces. I hope this helps.
Edited to add: Then again my girls also don't have the correct pattern for a bibbed. Both of mine have too much white all over, so there may be a significant difference between my incomplete girls and yours

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Flipper begging for peas. He's so patient.
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I love his coloring! That dark head on the light body is so handsome! I love drastic differences like that. And Butter in the picture a couple of post up is just so adorable and I bet she knows it. Who is standing beside Flip? That's not Lidus is it The chubs isn't so obvious whenever they're standing so tall. Still adorable either way

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Flip has such a sweet look to him

 

[HeatherKellyB]

@FunnyfarmMidwest i put my Aussie Spot in with Maggie and Miley whenever she hatched. They were about a week + older and significantly larger, but they did really well together. Those three girls are always together and Della, the Spot, is beginning to get a tiny bit larger than the Calls.

Congrats on your ducklings