SWEDISH Duck Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DUCKGIRL89]

Goodness! #4 is huge! Very cute babies!

 

[Evelle]

duckling number 2 looks like it will have a little happy patch going down the belly

ive got one of those !!

dont look at my messy coop

 

[70%cocoa]

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Yes, he was the first to hatch so had a head start

Plus boys can grow faster.

Evelle - I put up another one of #2. She does look to have a bit of a 'bib extension' down the chest

Will be watching her closely - as far as the other markings go she is the best and I have my eye on her as a keeper. Ps. for a duck coop - that is not messy!!!!!!!

Lovely blue girl there!

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

Here are the pair pictured on the last page as babies so you can see the white behind the eyes. Mine seem to just have lighter eyelids but had a lot of white around the eyes as babies! LOL and this shows his double bib kind of!! Again hatchery stock!

ETA: the blue was about twice the size of the other 10 day old ducklings I had but seems to be pretty petite when grown!

 

[Oregon Blues]

70%cocoa, very nice hatch this time.

 

[StevenW.]

70%cocoa :

A couple of weeks ago I had four more ducklings hatch - all blue, from a silver drake and black duck. Here they are at about 4 days old:

Duckling 1
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_duckling1b.jpg

Duckling 2 (added an extra photo)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_duckling2a.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_duckling2b.jpg

Duckling 3
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_duckling3a.jpg

Duckling 4
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_duckling4b.jpg

Pretty happy with bibs and wing tips at this stage although a couple have a small white mark behind the eye - not too keen on that but will see how it develops. Based on vent sexing I'm pretty sure I have two boys (No's 3 and 4) and two girls (No.s 1 and 2).

Here they are with the three that hatched two weeks before them. The blue ones are about 2 weeks old here and the black ones and yellow one are about 4 weeks old. They are living together very happily. The yellow one will turn out white and will just be sold as a 'white pet duck'. Her mother is a blue Swedish so I now know the mother is carrying recessive white.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1070792.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1070800.jpg

You wanna send me some of those over here??

I'm having duckling withdrawals..​

 

[70%cocoa]

Crazycatnchickenlady, Thankyou very much for putting up the baby photos. That's very encouraging - to see that the white behind the eyes may disappear.

Thanks, Oregon Blues

Edit: Ducklover - they are pretty cute, eh?

 

[StevenW.]

They are mega adorable!

I'am getting some Guinea eggs in a couple days from one of my friends on facebook.

The incubator keeps whispering to fill it up!

 

[shawnadoodlebug]

I got picture up now of my beautyful swedish blue

I hope you like!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Evelle]

70%cocoa: :

Plus boys can grow faster.

Evelle - I put up another one of #2. She does look to have a bit of a 'bib extension' down the chest

Will be watching her closely - as far as the other markings go she is the best and I have my eye on her as a keeper. Ps. for a duck coop - that is not messy!!!!!!!

Lovely blue girl there!

BOY!!!! im so envyious!! but im learning that i need a silver hen and a black drake to get blue baby
right??? im so confused so if i get a blue drake the offspring wont be blue??

thank you i try to keep it clean but well you know THEY ARE MESSY!! i sure wont take pictures today

she is the top hen of my four ducks

do you know what TBS are of blue swedish are?? i dont at all and i was wondering how mine would do.​