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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: WarescotFarm on July 01, 2012, 09:41:43 pm

Title: What breed is this duckling? Picture attached
Post by: WarescotFarm on July 01, 2012, 09:41:43 pm

Hi, anyone know what sort of duck this is?

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Post by: omnipeasant on July 01, 2012, 09:50:58 pm

It's a cute one. Sorry couldn't resist.

What are dark sussex by the way? I have light ones and speckled and a silver.

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Post by: jaykay on July 01, 2012, 10:29:08 pm

Well, it looks like a baby mallard? So if not a mallard, quite likely something with that sort of patterning.

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Post by: northfifeduckling on July 03, 2012, 04:53:29 pm

I want it  :D :D -as long as it's a girl  ;D
it certainly looks different from mine (KCs and IRs)  :&>

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Post by: Brijjy on July 03, 2012, 07:05:13 pm

Could be a mallard, muscovy or magpie duck. The pattern is very similar on all of these.

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Post by: goosepimple on July 03, 2012, 09:08:07 pm

Muscovy I'd say, we breed them and it looks like that to me.

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Post by: littlelugs on July 03, 2012, 09:14:42 pm

muscovey i reckon
 

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Post by: WarescotFarm on July 05, 2012, 09:46:02 pm

A dark sussex is the same as the white one but an opposite. Mainly black with white patterns around neck.

Oh is it horrid to say I was hoping not for a muscovy, I am not keen on the red bit around the beak (so picky  :eyelashes:)
what do people do with boy ducks? is it off to the pot or the local pond?

I tried sexing it at a day old and I think its a girl  :-\

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Post by: northfifeduckling on July 05, 2012, 10:07:37 pm

Muscovy girls are lovely! They don't quack and are very gentle, less skittish than the European breeds. They also make brilliant mums if you want to hatch any other ducklings naturally :&>

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Post by: WarescotFarm on July 05, 2012, 10:13:56 pm

I guess we love her now (well the kids do) so it doesn't matter what she is (unless she is a boy)

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Post by: northfifeduckling on July 05, 2012, 10:52:01 pm

how did she come to be with you, WF?  :&>

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Post by: WarescotFarm on July 08, 2012, 10:32:05 pm

We tried hatching 6 eggs in an incubator but only 1 hatched.
We now have a really tame daft duck added to the team :)

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Post by: northfifeduckling on July 09, 2012, 10:57:03 am

If it's a girl you might have problems with her descendants' fertility, depending on the breed of your boys. They don't mix well genetically with European ducks. I take it you hadn't planned on hatching Muscovies from those eggs  ;D ?  :&>

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Post by: Fowlman on July 09, 2012, 01:14:01 pm

The dark sussex is a hybrid.

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Post by: tizaala on July 09, 2012, 02:37:11 pm

I can categorically say it's definitely not a toilet duck. (hangs head in shame  smiley needed ) :innocent:

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Post by: WarescotFarm on July 09, 2012, 10:10:18 pm

Haha toilet duck!
We have chickens so far, this is the first duck, and we were hoping for an aylsebery / runner cross - opps!