Rouen Duck thread

[mommyofpeeps]

I guess 2 boys and 1 girl

 

[kynz7]

Hey everyone!
Since this is a Rouen duck thread, I though i could share my Rouen duckling science experience.
My ducklings names are Quackers and Cheese. Both of these ducklings lived inside for the first two weeks of their life. My experiment is to see if ducklings can still imprint 48 hours after being hatched. Quackers and Cheese are both Rouens, and Cheese is a crested duckling.
The ducklings are doing great. And while they have imprinted on me, they don't get too stressed when I leave them, because they have each other. I tried to upload their photos, but I couldn't figure out how. Can some one please tell me how?
I have raised chickens, but this is my first time raising ducks. I have heard that these ducks don't lay to often. Is this true? Also how can you sex young ducklings?

 

[AxolotlLove]

Hey everyone!
Since this is a Rouen duck thread, I though i could share my Rouen duckling science experience.
My ducklings names are Quackers and Cheese. Both of these ducklings lived inside for the first two weeks of their life. My experiment is to see if ducklings can still imprint 48 hours after being hatched. Quackers and Cheese are both Rouens, and Cheese is a crested duckling.
The ducklings are doing great. And while they have imprinted on me, they don't get too stressed when I leave them, because they have each other. I tried to upload their photos, but I couldn't figure out how. Can some one please tell me how?
I have raised chickens, but this is my first time raising ducks. I have heard that these ducks don't lay to often. Is this true? Also how can you sex young ducklings?

I had ducklings imprint on me after 2 days as well (4 ducklings) they do get stressed though when I leave. Ducks do lay often, some more than chickens, it's pretty impossible to sex ducks by looks so you'll have to wait till they grow up.

 

[AmandaMBG]

Ducklings can be voice sexed usually by 6-7 weeks. Females sometimes sooner I believe (one of mine quacked at 1.5 weeks once then consistently when I left the room at 2 weeks). Females have a loud quack (I think it sounds like a honk) and makes will make a wheezing smokers quack. Only one out of my three duckling imprinted on me and the one that did while she is still friendly has gotten more and more timid due to spending the majority of her time with the other two. I of course got mine from a tractor supply the week before Easter so they had seen a lot of people before seeing me. I imagine hatchery chicks would mostly all imprint.

Hey everyone!
Since this is a Rouen duck thread, I though i could share my Rouen duckling science experience.
My ducklings names are Quackers and Cheese. Both of these ducklings lived inside for the first two weeks of their life. My experiment is to see if ducklings can still imprint 48 hours after being hatched. Quackers and Cheese are both Rouens, and Cheese is a crested duckling.
The ducklings are doing great. And while they have imprinted on me, they don't get too stressed when I leave them, because they have each other. I tried to upload their photos, but I couldn't figure out how. Can some one please tell me how?
I have raised chickens, but this is my first time raising ducks. I have heard that these ducks don't lay to often. Is this true? Also how can you sex young ducklings?

 

[mommyofpeeps]

Question: my babies are getting their feathers in. I have Rouen that has a completely yellow bill already and some of the feathers that he is getting on this tail are a green/blue tint. Is that normal for a Rouen?

 

[buff goose guy]

Do you have a picture of the feathers?

 

[AmandaMBG]

I'm pretty sure the black part of a Rouens feather can have some of the green/blue irridescence to them.

Question: my babies are getting their feathers in. I have Rouen that has a completely yellow bill already and some of the feathers that he is getting on this tail are a green/blue tint. Is that normal for a Rouen?

 

[mcgyvr1234]

Looking if someone can help identify my ducks. I think the darker on is rouen, but not sure about the coloring. I think the lighter one may be khaki cambel. these are my first ducks. they are about 5 weeks old in the pics.

 

[AxolotlLove]

Yea, those are a Rouen and khaki Campbell.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Here are my ducklings, they have appearently imprinted on my chicks

Hopefully they are both female