The Duck Thread

[Ren2014]

I have a Welsh Harlequin that has me gender confused... It quacks, has a black bill but orange feet and is colored like my drake. It has not been acting like a drake. But now it is sporting what looks like a drake feather. All three of my Welshies hatched here at the house and are about 5 and 1/2 mos. old. They were from eggs I bought on E-bay. Do I have TWO drakes??



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Here it is with my girl

 

[Ren2014]

That is just too cute!

 

[Amiga]

I have a Welsh Harlequin that has me gender confused... It quacks, has a black bill but orange feet and is colored like my drake. It has not been acting like a drake. But now it is sporting what looks like a drake feather. All three of my Welshies hatched here at the house and are about 5 and 1/2 mos. old. They were from eggs I bought on E-bay. Do I have TWO drakes??



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Here it is with my girl

I have no idea - I can only offer that my Vier is definitely a girl, but when we got Bean the drake, she grew a drake feather.

 

[Ren2014]

I managed to get Fred, my Muscovy drake, into the outdoor sink but I think the struggle prior to did more harm than the soaking did good for his leg

He's limping worse now

 

[tracyjg]

Is that gender confusion .. Or just how the bird is. When a bird is confused on boy and girl.

 

[Ren2014]

I have no idea - I can only offer that my Vier is definitely a girl, but when we got Bean the drake, she grew a drake feather.

O wow, that's interesting. So you have a girl with a drake feather. Good to know

 

[Amiga]

I managed to get Fred, my Muscovy drake, into the outdoor sink but I think the struggle prior to did more harm than the soaking did good for his leg

He's limping worse now

If that happens here - and it does - I just do a quick pick up with T-Relief salve on my finger, swab it best I can on the leg and call it as good as we can get.

 

[Ren2014]

Is that gender confusion .. Or just how the bird is. When a bird is confused on boy and girl.

LOL, I'm confused of its gender. I've never had a bird that was confused.

 

[Amiga]

Is that gender confusion .. Or just how the bird is. When a bird is confused on boy and girl.

I am guessing that because Bean was not welcomed into the flock, he is seen as a potential interloper, and Vier's protective hormones kicked in so that it would appear that the flock already has a drake. In other words - we're taken, mister, see? We have a drake already. Keep moving along.

I keep Bean and his two girls separate, but the flocks are side by side.

 

[Ren2014]

If that happens here - and it does - I just do a quick pick up with T-Relief salve on my finger, swab it best I can on the leg and call it as good as we can get.

I need to get some of that.

What about leaving him in a tub with a cover so he can't get out?? This would keep his weight off of the leg for a day at least.