Show off your house ducks!

[Julie Birb]

I wish I could get a video! It's so unexpected, but maybe I can trick her into doing it on camera
Lady Gray! I lovethat name! I'm going to spend all week calling mine "Lady ChaCha" LOL
YAY! You are awesome for helping me with that! I think I got a nice medium width strap too they should help!

Please please see if you can get her to honk and on film. It will put me into orbit.

 

[Julie Birb]

Yeah...I can't wait until my throat's all healed. Grumble. And now for something completely different: NAPPY BEAN! (Man, why can't this one fit the file size for the calendar?)

She is so cute. Look at her little face. In my entire life I have never seen a duck with those colors.

 

[Julie Birb]

Oh, also look what Hils snapped while I was in the hospital last night? Everyone's all snuggled up. D'awwww. [/URL]

Aw, so cute. Fun little sleepers.

 

[AmandaVirginia]

She is so cute. Look at her little face. In my entire life I have never seen a duck with those colors.

Well, here's one and he belongs to SweetFolly!

 

[Julie Birb]

Well, here's one and he belongs to SweetFolly!

o my word. Now that is 2. Just curious, do you guys have any idea on the parents by looking at the coloring of this one and Bean? Cuz you guys will see a bibbed or pied whatever and deduce the parents'breed. Does that make sense? Or does Bean have some boomerang of a coloring gene? Like a mutation?

 

[AmandaVirginia]

o my word. Now that is 2. Just curious, do you guys have any idea on the parents by looking at the coloring of this one and Bean? Cuz you guys will see a bibbed or pied whatever and deduce the parents'breed. Does that make sense? Or does Bean have some boomerang of a coloring gene? Like a mutation?

Well, here is what SweetFolly said:

'No such thing as a Calico Call. Well, not really. I have a pet-quality Call drake that I suppose you could call "Calico", but he's actually a Blue Bibbed that's heterozygous for extended black, so he's "leaking" Blue Fawn patches through the Blue. He's mis-marked, that's all. It's not a color you could breed for, it's not stable. Just a oddity that cropped up.'

 

[Julie Birb]

Well, here is what SweetFolly said:

'No such thing as a Calico Call. Well, not really. I have a pet-quality Call drake that I suppose you could call "Calico", but he's actually a Blue Bibbed that's heterozygous for extended black, so he's "leaking" Blue Fawn patches through the Blue. He's mis-marked, that's all. It's not a color you could breed for, it's not stable. Just a oddity that cropped up.'

Fascinating, thanks.

 

[tara1324]

My two love bugs Molly and Myrtle

We are new to this thread and I was wondering, does anyone have any good duck diaper patterns? I am having a terrible time finding one, but I'd really like to try sewing my own.

 

[Julie Birb]

My two love bugs Molly and Myrtle

We are new to this thread and I was wondering, does anyone have any good duck diaper patterns? I am having a terrible time finding one, but I'd really like to try sewing my own.

very very cute. Ask kukupecpec, she may be able to give you some hints.

 

[Amykins]

Well, here is what SweetFolly said:

'No such thing as a Calico Call. Well, not really. I have a pet-quality Call drake that I suppose you could call "Calico", but he's actually a Blue Bibbed that's heterozygous for extended black, so he's "leaking" Blue Fawn patches through the Blue. He's mis-marked, that's all. It's not a color you could breed for, it's not stable. Just a oddity that cropped up.'

Yeah, I posted that in the call duck thread not long ago. It's still pretty dang rare, from the sounds of it. Maybe it doesn't breed true because she never had a similar hetero black/blue to mate him with? I'm still curious to try! No idea who Bean's parents are, as the lady I got her from kept all her ducks together. Next season I'm gonna ask if she has any more pop up like her, so perhaps we can work together on a little breeding experiment of our own!