What breed do these look like?

[Quacking Pigeon]

So I saw this ad in gumtree called “Mallard Ducks”, although they are clearly not mallards. What do they look like they could be? Or what are they crossed with?

 

[Pyxis]

I see you're in Australia. I'm going to hazard a guess that they are Elizabeth ducks, based on that.

https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/Eliz/BRKEliz.html

 

[Jpat]

never heard of elizabeth ducks but its a dead ringer. I was going to say silver appleyards

 

[Kessel23]

Are you considering buying them?
Looks like one of the drakes has angel wing

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

I see you're in Australia. I'm going to hazard a guess that they are Elizabeth ducks, based on that.

https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/Eliz/BRKEliz.html

They are definitely not Elizabeth’s as they are too large and the wrong colour. But thanks anyways.

 

[Pyxis]

They are definitely not Elizabeth’s as they are too large and the wrong colour. But thanks anyways.

What color are Elizabeth ducks supposed to be? They seemed to match the color of the ducks in that link I posted, aside from some of the females not having the dark beak. But it looks like Elizabeths are a smaller breed, so if these are big ducks (hard to judge size in the picture) then that would put them out as candidates, for sure.

I can say based on coloring that they're not welsh harlequins, not Abacot Rangers, not saxonies, not silver appleyards (they don't have the eyestripes and restricted mallard patterns that silver appleyards would have), and probably not rouen clair, and those are all the breeds I can think of that are similar in color, so my guess is they're probably a cross involving one of the above.

 

[sylviethecochin]

On the black and white duck: probably a cross between the brown ducks and the Pekin. We had a mallard/Pekin cross that looked like that. His name was Zorro.