Can't wait to find out if it is a boy or a girl.Swedish ducks are so funny.
As it is a medium sized duck that is an excellent forager it is a low maintenance breed.
Avianweb / BeautyOfBirds or any of their authors / publishers assume no responsibility for the use or misuse of any of the published material. The legs of both Swedish Blue duck and drakes are reddish-brown, with irregular markings of greyish-black. It got a bit beat up because it was laid on the ground in the middle of the yard and probably got tripped over by the other 8 ducks and 5 chickens that share that enclosure.I have one Blue Swedish drake named Gareth. My cousin gave me 5 for free because a mother hatched out 12 and she had no idea. A blue duck to blue drake mating will produce 50% blue, 25% black and 25% splash offspring on average.
Typically they have calm temperaments and make fine pets (Holderread, 2001). There is also some pretty iridescence to their plumage, with a glossy green hint to it.According to the American Standard, their outer two or three wing flight feathers should be white - but this is not always the case. They stand on "hawk alert" when airplanes pass by. If two ducks of the same gender are kept together, they will go through the mating process - obviously without producing any young. Mostly the ducks look like Blue Swiss, but I had one Cayuga looking one that was beautiful.very friendly, nice, and don't need a lot of maintenance.Extremely calm and friendly, good layers, quiet, medium sized.Can be loud. He has accidentally hurt two Black Swedish hens while mating because he is so heavy, but he would never mean to. This breed of duck is listed as watch by the If the black and splash homozygous forms are bred together, the offspring are all heterozygous and thus the desired blue color.Ducks lay some 100–150 white or tinted eggs per year of Swedish Blue ducks, with two blue birds on the right and splash and black forms to the left The male duck is known as "drake," the female as simply "duck" or "hen," and a juvenile duck (chick) is referred to as "duckling." Wendy laid her first egg this morning and as you can see next to one of our hen's eggs it is a lovely greenish grey. I highly recommend them for pets, eggs and breeding.I have 5 ducks, though I originally got 7. Swedish Flower Hen (Blommehöna) Originally a landrace breed, Swedish Flower Hens were not intentionally developed. He waits outside the nests while they lay. He knows his name, and is the only duck out of twelve that like to be pet. also good foragers, don't need a lot of food, alert for hawks, funny/entertainingtheir high activity destroys and erodes some thingsI'm not sure about egg laying since these are young, but they are prettyThey're very afraid and not friendly like chickens.funny, great layers, nice to chickens and other ducks, ideal size. 25%: The other homozygous form, splashed or silver with combinations of blue … And the head and bill of the ducks are the same blue slate color of the body. I cant wait til I can get more blue swedish! A group of ducks is called a "brace". drakes have yellow. They produce 100 eggs per year of 80-90 g weight. They love to free range. Interaction is on his terms I have 3 blue Swedish as well as other colored Swedes, I got mine when they were 3 days old, they seemed a bit skittish at times but they were not that bad as mallards that I had and they weren't that bad. The males have heads that are a darker blue than the color of their bodies. This duck will give a good amount of eggs and mother its ducklings.
Very sweet temperament and very beautiful. He is very stern toward the other three drakes, but if it was not him, it would be one of the others.
1 young pair of swedish ducks drake is black hen is blue.
The male duck is known as "drake," … The history of the bird is a little fuzzy but the traditional story is that a miller in Duchess County, New York, caught a pair of wild black ducks on his millpond in 1809. The Swedish Blue with it’s beautiful feathering, calm, friendly even temperament that does mind being handled is a great starter duck.It is also a good duck to have around children as it is really easy to handle and quite docile.The blue ducks that are the foundation of the Blue Swedish duck were known to have existed in Pomerania in the early 1800’s. Rather, they were created by nature as a result of the pairing of the strongest and hardiest birds over the last 500 years. He is the prettiest duck I have an hes always so quiet. Without any female ducks, they could be tempted to go after the chickens, and that would be deadly, because chickens and ducks have drastically different reproductive systems, and the drake could kill the chicken if he tries to mate her.
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