What colour is this mystery call duck?

[Mccluckers]

Separating the eggs??  If they all hang out together then you have a mixed breed of ducks.  Separating the call eggs from the other doesn't make them just calls?  If a Cayuga breeds with that call then you have a mixed breed.  Just by taken that egg, isn't going to make it a call only???

It would because she only has call drakes and then mostly call hens and 1 Cayuga, 1 mallard/call cross hens so if she took the call eggs they would be 100% call. Sorry forgot to tell you about only call drakes.

 

[Lacrystol]

Here's my Grey/mallard, your duckies feathers look similar in the pattern... but still to young to actually tell.

 

[Lacrystol]

It would because she only has call drakes and then mostly call hens and 1 Cayuga, 1 mallard/call cross hens so if she took the call eggs they would be 100% call. Sorry forgot to tell you about only call drakes.

I see!!!!

 

[Mccluckers]

But the duckling isn't mallard coloured it is an odd brown colour. When I went to collect there was also what looked to be a snowy call drake but didnt have time to properly look at colour but was definately a call

Here's my Grey/mallard, your duckies feathers look similar in the pattern... but still to young to actually tell.

She Is georgeous by the way!

 

[Lacrystol]

But didn't you say there was a mallard/call crossed?? perhaps that's her egg?

 

[Lacrystol]

Don't look at the color now, look at the feather pattern and color..

and from your pic, the feathers that are coming in to me and maybe it's just the picture, but right now it looks similar to the mallard pattern.

 

[Mccluckers]

But didn't you say there was a mallard/call crossed??  perhaps that's her egg?

Maybe it is. It could have been a particularly small egg could it still come out mallard pattern? I posted a pic of the whole flock earlier in the thread you can see her there. It is missing one white in the pic

 

[Lacrystol]

How's the Mystery Duck Can we see what it looks like today? Did the feathers come in so that its color is more noticeable?

 

[Mccluckers]

Hi Lacrystol, we have a dusky! But we don't think they are pure call mallard mixes probably.

He is the one in the top photo near the camera

 

[buff goose guy]

if it was mixed with a call duck and mallard it would look like a mallard and these definetly do not look like mallards their bodies are too narrow probably some runner in there.