Swedish Ducks

[Feather Lady]

70%cocoa :

Here are some pics of my Swedish - I have 6 at the moment (two trios) and also two cross-bred ducks (chocolate ducks).

Here's my silver drake, Magellan. He has great type but no white flights and a very splotchy bib. He is probably my best, type-wise. He also has no white at all on his face or under his chin (which is rare, to have no white under the chin) so I am hoping he passes that on. He is a very cuddly-looking duck, be he doesn't like cuddles so I try to resist....
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Here is my blue duck, Shackleton - my only blue one. She is also a good type and size. Bib is very neat but could be bigger. Has a bit of white under the chin (fault but hard to get rid of). No white flight feathers but should be carrying the gene. She has some black feathers but you pretty much always get that. A judge told me to pull them out before showing her.
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The black Swedish in the pond here is LaPerouse. She is probably my best, markings-wise, except for a bit much white on her face. The black duck standing outside the pond is Tasman, She has some black intruding into her bib and a bit of white on the face too. Obviously the white on the face is something I am keen to work on removing. The blue duck you already met. The dark duck in the pond is Torres, a chocolate cross-bred. She is the boss duck

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The black one on the left is another drake, Marco Polo. He has a good bib but a bit of white under the chin and he is also a little long in the body. He is a nice big boy. His flights have not fully grown back after moulting in this pic (it was taken a few months ago). The pale duck standing next to him is Freycinet - she is splash or silver in colour. Beautiful type (maybe a tad small). Can't tell anything about her bib or flight feathers though as she is almost white all over! You can see LaPerouse peeping through the grass on the right, and one of my chickens, Wills (an Australian Langshan) trying to make an escape in the middle of the pic.
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Here is Marco, LaPerouse and Freycinet again, with Magellan and Shackleton and possibly Tasman and the other chocolate (Jansz) in the background.
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I did not breed any of these ducks, they are my starting group. They are from four different lines, so I am starting out with a bit of genetic diversity. We will see what they produce in springtime! I am going to set eggs in August (late winter for us).

Hope you like them!

I love your pictures, you have some cute ducks!! Thank you for all the information I have learned alot already!!

 

[Feather Lady]

70%cocoa :

Thanks guys, I'm glad you like them!

Gofasterstripe - I love her colour too, pale with a blue bill. Mostly I call her 'Pretty Girl' even though it's not her name

I've got the day off work tomorrow so I can sit and watch them all day. Bliss!!

It's so relaxing to just sit outside and watch them, I use that time as a stress reliever!​

 

[tbitt]

Here are my 2 Swedish (from Metzer)

Not that you can tell anything about them...yet............but they are cute...

I need to get more pics of them, this is when they were about 3 days old. They are 7 days older now

I'm not wondering...the yellow on the wings; does that mean they will have a lot of white feathers there? (or is this not a good indication wither way how it will turn out?)

 

[70%cocoa]

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Awww...they are beautiful!! Anywhere that the ducklings have yellow will eventually turn white so yellow wing tips mean white flight feathers. You can already get a very good idea of what their bibs and wings will be like at this age. I would say that your duckling in the bottom pic (which I am assuming is the same as the one in the top pic?) will have more than three white flights. I'm just going on what one of my black ducks looked like at day-old compared to now. In the pic below she is the darkest duckling at the top of the pic (a friend hatched her for me).

She has quite a bit of yellow on her wing tips at this age. The quantity of yellow directly translates to how much white is on the adult wing. She now has 5 white primary feathers on each wing. You can also see that her bill is a bit pink in places - as an adult this has translated into a slightly mottled bill but it is reducing as she gets older and has now become hardly noticeable. Mottling is not desirable, you want the bill to be an even colour all over. Your duckling in the top and bottom pic has a bit of a pink on her/his bill so it will likely turn out a bit mottled, but probably not very much at all once all grown up - my guess is you will hardly be able to see it at all. You can also see that my duckling has yellow on her face, and this is now a little bit of white on her face as an adult.

I think that your ducklings look very nice. Very little yellow on the face, bibs a good size, good leg colour, and just plain gorgeous!!!

 

[animalpro24]

70%cocoa :

Here are some pics of my Swedish - I have 6 at the moment (two trios) and also two cross-bred ducks (chocolate ducks).

Here's my silver drake, Magellan. He has great type but no white flights and a very splotchy bib. He is probably my best, type-wise. He also has no white at all on his face or under his chin (which is rare, to have no white under the chin) so I am hoping he passes that on. He is a very cuddly-looking duck, be he doesn't like cuddles so I try to resist....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1060178.jpg

Here is my blue duck, Shackleton - my only blue one. She is also a good type and size. Bib is very neat but could be bigger. Has a bit of white under the chin (fault but hard to get rid of). No white flight feathers but should be carrying the gene. She has some black feathers but you pretty much always get that. A judge told me to pull them out before showing her.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1050831.jpg

The black Swedish in the pond here is LaPerouse. She is probably my best, markings-wise, except for a bit much white on her face. The black duck standing outside the pond is Tasman, She has some black intruding into her bib and a bit of white on the face too. Obviously the white on the face is something I am keen to work on removing. The blue duck you already met. The dark duck in the pond is Torres, a chocolate cross-bred. She is the boss duck

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1060188.jpg

The black one on the left is another drake, Marco Polo. He has a good bib but a bit of white under the chin and he is also a little long in the body. He is a nice big boy. His flights have not fully grown back after moulting in this pic (it was taken a few months ago). The pale duck standing next to him is Freycinet - she is splash or silver in colour. Beautiful type (maybe a tad small). Can't tell anything about her bib or flight feathers though as she is almost white all over! You can see LaPerouse peeping through the grass on the right, and one of my chickens, Wills (an Australian Langshan) trying to make an escape in the middle of the pic.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1050830.jpg

Here is Marco, LaPerouse and Freycinet again, with Magellan and Shackleton and possibly Tasman and the other chocolate (Jansz) in the background.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1060172.jpg

I did not breed any of these ducks, they are my starting group. They are from four different lines, so I am starting out with a bit of genetic diversity. We will see what they produce in springtime! I am going to set eggs in August (late winter for us).

Hope you like them!

Your ducks are gorgeous! Just thought I'd let you know.

 

[70%cocoa]

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Thankyou very much! I'm really glad you like them

 

[70%cocoa]

I caught one of them (LaPerouse) having a snooze and showing off her bib nicely. I consider this to be a very good bib, pretty neat and a good size for a duck (bibs are usually smaller in ducks than in drakes). I also think it's kinda funny because she looks like she has no head.

 

[Feather Lady]

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Very Cute!! Now I want some babies

 

[Feather Lady]

70%cocoa :

I caught one of them (LaPerouse) having a snooze and showing off her bib nicely. I consider this to be a very good bib, pretty neat and a good size for a duck (bibs are usually smaller in ducks than in drakes). I also think it's kinda funny because she looks like she has no head.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80856_p1060371.jpg

That does look pretty funny! If both parents have spotty bibs does that mean the babies will too?​

 

[70%cocoa]

Well, you can breed two ducks with excellent bibs and end up with some offspring that have really bad bibs or even practically no bib, only one or two white feathers. I know that doesn't answer your question but it does show that inheritance of bibs is not straightforward. This year the person who I bought four of my birds from is pairing a drake with a huge bib with a duck with almost no bib to see what she gets. So who knows what you'll get from two birds with less than ideal bibs - they may well produce very nice bibs!! It's definitely worth a try.