Rouen Duck thread

[buff goose guy]

Sorry I took it from far away it probably doesn't look that big from where I took it

 

[Quack House]

Wow I love that pond!!

 

[buff goose guy]

Thanks it's a natural pond and through erosion the sides became flat and verticals so now the water is permanently stuck their . It takes up like 2 of our 25 acrs

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

My female rouen FINALLY decided to sit on her nest. She has 8 eggs I counted today and she wasn't in coop wen I checked so I took the hint and checked she is on her eggs. My issue is she has no mate now. He was killed last week or just before then. I have never had a duck sit on a nest w/o a drake near. Will she be ok feeding and w/o protection? If I move her I know she will abandon her nest. She is close to the house so I will be able to tell, while awake that she is harassed at all.
Just wondering. I am leaving her if she will sit because these (Some at least) are the last of her eggs that will be fertile until I get her a mate. I have 3 batched of her eggs in incubation now (about 20 total) staggered over 3 weeks for hatching. So I may end up with a few (Many I hope) before her nest does/doesn't hatch. I would be greatful if 1/4 of all eggs (roughly 28) hatch. Since most of her family was wiped out last year in the fall. Something got them all but 2 in the pond 1 night. Her mother we had for 3 years, 2 before I was able to find her a mate. She just looks odd now solo, since having multiple ducks last year.

 

[wildsam]

Sorry to hear about your flock 5acre.

But at least you should still get some fertile eggs from her as sperm keeps up to 2 weeks after mating. Wish you nothing but luck in hatching and increasing your flock again, but you should also see about adding a different line to it, as she could otherwise mate with her own offspring.
If you would live anywhere near NW Wisconsin I could give you one Rouen drake, as I have too many and it starts showing on my girls, since one Rouen is also sitting on a nest, shared with my Pekin girl. So 2 girls are out of the mating pool right now. Keeping my fingers crossed that her ducklings hatch soon as we just hatched one from her eggs beginning of this week.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

10 years ago I was in WI. Now in North central Mo. False alarm. Unless she was laying her new egg at 11 pm. I check a few minutes ago and wasn't on nest, she's shading under my truck. She added a new egg either last night or this am. I collected the 9 eggs and will set them tonight. After this I will use them for eating for awhile. Until I can get her mated again. Brings my duck egg total up to around 3 dz. Hoping a few hatch but we had some freezing nights since she started laying and I waited until she had 6+ to collect because she always moves her nest after.

 

[buff goose guy]

I have no female rouens, (some of mine are pastel and some are gray rouens ) all my females were pastel so they were a lot easier to see at night . Foxes and raccoons and 1 hawk got my females

Now I only have males


But this mallard / Cayuga mix flew in with a flick of mallards about 3 years ago and started laying


We got our professional 100 percent of hatching incubator in December and we are now incubating 4 of her eggs .

 

[buff goose guy]

Also right now I am hunting turtles got 4 yesterday

3 so far today

And I have hundreds more in my pond

 

[danahud]

We bought 3 Rouens from tractor supply a few weeks ago and are now IMPATIENTLY waiting to see who is male and who is female.
They have begun to grow in their first feathers and I noticed that one of them has a green tint to the feathers right above those of its tail. Could this be a hint as to the sex?

 

[buff goose guy]

It can be but also sometimes girls can have a green sheen when starting to molt .