Shaws call duck incubation thread (hatch a wonderful(worthless to Ralphie) dux thread)

[iluvsedward]

I swear I heard a quack come out of one of my juvies. I had been assuming he was a drake (Jax did try mating her/him when they were younger, he always avoided my obvious drake juvie)

This one. I think it’s either just a bad grey, or incomplete grey, or maybe dusky grey? Thoughts anyone? The speculum usually looks just black, no standout eye stripes, but slightly faint. And some green sheen on the head. Do any females get green heads? I gotta go look that up.
Bill looks huge, but still young and growing in to it. Looks a lot like Lexi, the momma.
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I would say drake. Their heads will start to turn dark before they are noticeably green. His bill is also green and black, my juvenile hens had more orangish bills. Heres one of my juvenile drakes, you can see the dark feathers coming in near his bill.

 

[WVduckchick]

I would say drake. Their heads will start to turn dark before they are noticeably green. His bill is also green and black, my juvenile hens had more orangish bills. Heres one of my juvenile drakes, you can see the dark feathers coming in near his bill.

Thanks for dashing my hopes



Although, the description does call for deep green-brown on the crown. I’ll have to look and listen to him closer.
(Edit - he isn’t close to SOP either way, so it doesn’t really matter. I just don’t need another drake!)

 

[iluvsedward]

Thanks for dashing my hopes



Although, the description does call for deep green-brown on the crown. I’ll have to look and listen to him closer.
(Edit - he isn’t close to SOP either way, so it doesn’t really matter. I just don’t need another drake!)
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Oh i know! I hope it works in your favor. I have three too many drakes and new ducklings. Honestly I would vent sex, they say to do it in the first 24 hours when they havent eaten yet cause they can choke but i dont like doing it on the teeny tiny babies so i do it when their older im just really careful about it and i try not to flip them completely upside down

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Basically it means not black, lol. E is the gene for extended black. e+ means not black. E is dominant, so a duck that is Ee+ would be black, but is carrying not black. So a blue bibbed male could be Ee+ and of course he would also be at least Blbl+ (Bl being blue) which turns the black blue. Or maybe even BlBl. Getting black babies from him would mean he's Blbl+ though because if he was BlBl all would be blue, they'd all be getting the blue gene.

So anyway, if he bred with a gray hen and passed the offspring e+ and Bl, boom, blue fawn.

Interesting... my dark one has some rust colored fathers coming in. I'll try an get a pic when i bring them in before dark. They have been spending the day in an outside pen but still panic at dark. Its only been 4 days tho so..

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She hatched all seven! Except one with an underdeveloped CAM. What color is this yellow one? I can believe how many different colors I got!

Omg!!! Beautiful duckies and those pics are awsome!!!

I swear I heard a quack come out of one of my juvies. I had been assuming he was a drake (Jax did try mating her/him when they were younger, he always avoided my obvious drake juvie)

This one. I think it’s either just a bad grey, or incomplete grey, or maybe dusky grey? Thoughts anyone? The speculum usually looks just black, no standout eye stripes, but slightly faint. And some green sheen on the head. Do any females get green heads? I gotta go look that up.
Bill looks huge, but still young and growing in to it. Looks a lot like Lexi, the momma.
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Idk but he/she is really pretty.
I like em all tho...

I got a little worried there too for a min...

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Idk if its a rusty color or more golden brown..
What do yall think?

 

[Julie Birb]

Idk if its a rusty color or more golden brown..
What do yall think?
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Waaah! I wanna hold the cute duckling.

 

[WVduckchick]

Idk if its a rusty color or more golden brown..
What do yall think?
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That’s the feathering of a Grey. I’m still going with dusky grey.

 

[Julie Birb]

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She hatched all seven! Except one with an underdeveloped CAM. What color is this yellow one? I can believe how many different colors I got!

EEEEEEEEE!! Precious innocence and cuteness. Roundness and wonderful. It's love.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Waaah! I wanna hold the cute duckling.

Come on over to the zoo!

That’s the feathering of a Grey. I’m still going with dusky grey.

Ok cool!

 

[Julie Birb]

Come on over to the zoo!

Ok cool!

Thank you, on my way.