The easily misguided stereotype of mallard ducklings having one strip by the eye makes them a mallard is completely false. Mallard ducklings can have any number of striped by the eyes. A mallard duckling could have 1 stripe or 4 that doesn't mean its mixed bred or not a mallard, its completely normal in nature for mallard to have more than one stripe.
The same could go for rouens. The ducklings do not have to have 2 striped they can have 1 or even more than 2. That doesn't make them any less than a rouen or any more. You can have a perfect show quality rouen that had 3 striped by its eyes or maybe even one stripe by its eyes. The number of striped does not matter. What matter is the size , growth and, of course, genetics gone into a duck that prove its breed not the number of striped by the eyes.
This is delta and dawn as babies delta had 2 striped dawn had 1
This was them grown up into perfect show quality mallards
So when you are trying to decide the breed of a duckling dont look at the stripes is basicly what this whole post was about, sorry i had my little rant now
Everyone have a good day
The same could go for rouens. The ducklings do not have to have 2 striped they can have 1 or even more than 2. That doesn't make them any less than a rouen or any more. You can have a perfect show quality rouen that had 3 striped by its eyes or maybe even one stripe by its eyes. The number of striped does not matter. What matter is the size , growth and, of course, genetics gone into a duck that prove its breed not the number of striped by the eyes.
This is delta and dawn as babies delta had 2 striped dawn had 1
This was them grown up into perfect show quality mallards
So when you are trying to decide the breed of a duckling dont look at the stripes is basicly what this whole post was about, sorry i had my little rant now
Everyone have a good day