Welsh Harlequin Ducklings! Help with sex and phase please?

[Golden Egg]

Cool! We have both silver and gold, and I have heard that the gold were the originals and are now more rare than the silver.
Turns out they are all Welsh Harlequins including the bonus duckling! We have 5 gold and 6 silver. Not sure on the sex yet, but their voices are changing so we should know pretty soon.
I'll post updated pics if I can, but we are really busy these days!

 

[Golden Egg]

Here are updated pics. I think I know the sex and phase of most of them. Glorygirl, I think you were correct in your guesses. The one you weren't sure about appears to be a gold male.

Juvenile Welsh Harlequin ducks, 7 weeks old!





The females are starting to quack, so I'm pretty sure the following pictures are correct.


Silver male



Silver female



Gold male



Gold female


I prefer the gold.

 

[Nebraskagirl]

Oh they are lovely! I ended up with a silver MALE (his bill was pink as could be at birth so I assumed female. WRONG.) Yours are very nice looking.

 

[Call Duck Kid]

light bill girl dark bill boy(I think!)

 

[Golden Egg]

Update: We are now certain that the ducks were correctly identified. See my previous post for pictures.

 

[carousel86]

Update: We are now certain that the ducks were correctly identified. See my previous post for pictures.

Where did you get WH duckling from? I would like to buy some in the spring.

 

[carousel86]

Glorygirl, thanks!
I just realized that the bonus duckling they sent might be another breed. I am editing the first post to say this.

Did you buy the SQ WH from Holderread or not? I'm going to order some from Holderread in the spring and wasn't sure if I should get SQ duckling.

 

[Golden Egg]

What does SQ stand for? Seems like I ought to know but my life is so crazy these days that my mind is running at Mach 2 and I can't keep everything straight, LOL!
We bought the ducklings from Holderread this spring, but we did order well in advance. I recommend them; our experience was very good!

 

[carousel86]

SQ in Show Quality, I was wondering because SQ duckling are $3.50 more. I want great colors on my duck because I like to hatch their eggs and sell them. If you could post pictures for me, that would be great! Thank you Diane

 

[carousel86]

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What does SQ stand for? Seems like I ought to know but my life is so crazy these days that my mind is running at Mach 2 and I can't keep everything straight, LOL!
We bought the ducklings from Holderread this spring, but we did order well in advance. I recommend them; our experience was very good!

SQ in Show Quality, I was wondering because SQ duckling are $3.50 more. I want great colors on my duck because I like to hatch their eggs and sell them. Thank you Diane