What kind of duck is this

[Finnie]

I got some new photos. So I moved the little ducklings' playpen out to the big duckling pen for about a week so they could get used to being near each other. Then 2 days ago I took the littles out of the playpen. The bigs don't always play nice, but I think they are working things out.

I think I have a chocolate runner among the littles. AND! My "Pekins" are growing golden feathers on their wings!! Surely that means they are buff colored? Whatever they are, they must be something other than Pekins. I can't wait to see how they turn out! I really hope they are girls so I don't have to sell them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are sure pretty

 

[happy duck]

Your "pekins" look like buffs to me! I raised pekins and buffs together and they sure do look like buffs!

 

[Finnie]

They are sure pretty

Thank you!

Your "pekins" look like buffs to me! I raised pekins and buffs together and they sure do look like buffs!

Awesome, thank you! I was really hoping I could find buffs, but I knew it could be hard to tell what is what.

 

[Finnie]

With the power of our wills combined, you shall have Welsh and Buff ducks! Hahaha!!

@Shannonmej It worked!! We willed my Pekins into buffs!

Now we just gotta "will" you some Welshies!

 

[Finnie]

I promised to show photos as the original mystery chick in this thread grew up.

I see two black swedish ducks and what appears to be two cayugas. That one could be a silver appleyard but I'm thinking possibly a Golden 300 layer. Beautiful ducks!

Hmmm, Looking at them closer I think you have 2 black Swedish ducklings, A Cayuga, and a Golden 300 duckling.

Bingo! Both of you were right, the original 5 were 2 Black Swedish, a Cayuga and 2 Golden 300s. Of this group, only the Cayuga is a female. These are them:

The one that started out black ended up like this (center bird):

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I was correct about these two. Both golden 300's, the chocolate one female and the black tinted one male.
They are the two in the center of this photo, that have the Blue Swedish in between them. The chocolate female is in front.

I think I have a chocolate runner among the littles. I can't wait to see how they turn out! I really hope they are girls so I don't have to sell them

I was right, chocolate runner. And I got what I wanted! All of my Buffs, Blue Swedish and Chocolates are females!! Yay! That SO makes up for the first group being 4 out of 5 males! This is the only shot I have that shows the Buffs and the Chocolate Runner:

I had a man come to buy one of the drakes, and having had ducks most of his life, he was able to positively sex all my ducks for me. (I have heard quacking in the group, but was unable to tell which birds were doing it.) He really wanted me to sell him a female, so since I felt blessed with plenty of females, and the chocolate runner was the oddball in the group, I let him buy her. He also ended up taking a second male.

So now I am down to 9 ducks. 6 females and 3 males, of which I am going to sell (or eat) the last male Golden 300, and keep one Black Swedish male for breeding and the other Black Swedish male for backup.
Here is my duck flock as it stands now:

Edit: I don't know why those four photos got duplicated at the top, but oh well.