Saxony Duck Thread!

[Table4Six]

Congrats! It's always cool watching drakes molt into their adult feathers.

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

@Bills vs Beaks, all mine eventually got dark beans. I look at chest feathers. Boys have dark brown females have buff.

your hens have black beans? huh.

Mine dont, theirs are the same orange colour as the bill

 

[Table4Six]

My hen doesn't have a black bean either.

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

@Bills vs Beaks, all mine eventually got dark beans. I look at chest feathers. Boys have dark brown females have buff.

@ViolinPlayer123 could you take a picture of your hens bills for us?

 

[MagpieDucks]

@ViolinPlayer123 could you take a picture of your hens bills for us?

I can try! I had to put my Magpie drake into jail today so he wouldn't terrorize my saxonies 3 weeks before the show...

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

I can try! I had to put my Magpie drake into jail today so he wouldn't terrorize my saxonies 3 weeks before the show...

Thanks
whoop, been there

 

[MagpieDucks]

Drake no 1 front and side

Hen no 1 front and side

Hen no 2 front and side

Hen no 3 front and side Drake no 2 front and side

Hen no 4 front and side.

I got them! Sorry for the bad lighting. I got them sexed frI'm Johnsons waterfowl. First thumbnail Hen no 2 side
And 2&3 thumbnail are hen 3 and 4 I think... sorry they are all mixed up.

 

[Table4Six]

Now that my hen is older her bean is starting to darken.

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

Heres some bean pics for my hens....

 

[Table4Six]

That's interesting. I wonder why you're hens beans are so much lighter than my hen's, Penelope. How old are your hens?