What color eggs do Mallard Pekin Mixes Lay?

[TheDuckMother]

I'm incubating some eggs and still unsure about what breed of duck they are. Half are white and half are green. I have pekins, Ancona, mallard, and pekin mallard mix. I haven't been getting pekin eggs which is weird because even with the weather they normally don't go this long with out at least one egg between the two of them. So I don't know if the white egg is from my Ancona (and the mallard the green) or one of my mallard pekin mixes. This would mean one mix is laying green eggs and the other white. Is this logical? Or is it a better bet the white are Ancona? They only reason I believe it's the mixes is because they use to be small, like they are when you first start laying. And I wasn't getting any green eggs till they got mature. BUT my friend also has a pekin around the same age that isn't laying yet and I told him she might not till next season. So it would make sense if they did too and it was my older ducks laying. BUT then it doesn't make sense because I'm not getting any pekin eggs. Last winter in TN (in AZ now) the pekin laid less, but still consistently throughout the winter, while my mallard practically stopped. So I just don't know. Would it make sense to have one mix lay white and the other green? What do you think makes the most logical sense?

 

[sourland]

In my experience, first generation mallard/pekin crosses laid light green eggs. In subsequent generations depending upon the % of mallard DNA the eggs might be more white or more green; therefore, one mix might lay white and the other green.