What type of duck?

[Crazy4Fowl]

what type of duck breed is the male/darker one?

 

[chaddyville]

what type of duck breed is the male/darker one?

Looks like a Silver Applyard to me.

 

[Crazy4Fowl]

Looks like a Silver Applyard to me.

Ok, is Appleyard a good breed?

 

[chaddyville]

Ok, is Appleyard a good breed?

I think so. I don't have any myself but I thought about getting them when I was deciding on ducks. I have cayuga, Welsh Harlequins and Khaki Campbell. He looks gorgeous.

 

[Amiga]

Ok, is Appleyard a good breed?

http://themodernhomestead.us/article/Silver+Appleyard.html

 

[duckmeister]

what type of duck breed is the male/darker one?

Hi Crazy4Fowl, the beautiful drake in your photo looks to be a Rouen/Pekin cross. I used to have a white Pekin hen that hatched out some babies with a Rouen daddy and they looked just like your photo drake. He has white tipped primary flight feathers, and Silver Appleyards do not have white tipped primary flight feathers. He looks like a great fellow to me. Cross him with those Khaki Campbel hens in the photo and you'll get some pastel colored offspring.

 

[duckmeister]

Crazy4fowl, those 2 khaki hens in you picture will be laying lots of eggs when they mature. They are nice looking hens, I love the bluish colored bills. Did you get your birds from a hatchery?

 

[Crazy4Fowl]

Crazy4fowl, those 2 khaki hens in you picture will be laying lots of eggs when they mature. They are nice looking hens, I love the bluish colored bills. Did you get your birds from a hatchery?

Actually one is a khaki campbell from rural king (along with the male who was supposed to be a girl khaki campbell) and the other one is a Golden 300 Hybrid. We got her from efowl but she is the only survivor out of 14, and I'm mad at efowl because I had to watch some of them die. I have the story on some of my other posts.

 

[duckmeister]

Actually one is a khaki campbell from rural king (along with the male who was supposed to be a girl khaki campbell) and the other one is a Golden 300 Hybrid. We got her from efowl but she is the only survivor out of 14, and I'm mad at efowl because I had to watch some of them die. I have the story on some of my other posts.

There's always the possibility the drake is a Golden 300, i hear the drakes from that cross come out often black bibbed and sometimes looking like a Rouen like your drake. The Golden 300 cross is a khaki drake crossed on rouen hens.

 

[quackerswoo]

@Crazy4Fowl

Your dark make duck looks like a Silver Appleyard.
I have 3 miniature silver Appleyard boys and they are so tame. They are coming up to 14 weeks old now.
Did have to get their wings clipped as they managed to fly about 9 feet in the air which panicked me.