Duck ID Please

[shearwater66]

This type of duck is a fairly common 'type' in poultry circles. Originally bred from Mallards and Pekin Ducks (all white) to give poultry owners some interesting colour forms,but to produce a deeper bellied bird (from the Pekin) for eating!!!

But manky mallards is still a great name....lol

[Mungo]

Thank you for that explanation. I love the fact that folks here are so knowledgable.
Thank you!

[Gill Catton]

were they quite small? They look a bit like call ducks (again a domestic duck of mallard descent) have a look at this part way down the page.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/D.../BRKCalls.html

I slightly object to the term manky mallard as some of these birds are pedigree domestics with hundreds of years of careful breeding in their lineage. A labrador isn't exactly a manky wolf is it? (or maybe it is to wolf lovers!!)

Admitedly they escape and then breed with other domestics or pure mallards (if any such ducks still exist in urban areas) and produce crazy inbetweens which may be more suited to the title of manky.

[Jason Green]

But isn't the term Manky only used to describe the 'inbetweeners' as opposed to pedigree forms???

[Mungo]

Originally Posted by Gill Catton

were they quite small? They look a bit like call ducks (again a domestic duck of mallard descent) have a look at this part way down the page.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/D.../BRKCalls.html

I slightly object to the term manky mallard as some of these birds are pedigree domestics with hundreds of years of careful breeding in their lineage. A labrador isn't exactly a manky wolf is it? (or maybe it is to wolf lovers!!)

Admitedly they escape and then breed with other domestics or pure mallards (if any such ducks still exist in urban areas) and produce crazy inbetweens which may be more suited to the title of manky.

Oh wow that's fasinating, thank you for the link Gill. No wonder I couldn't ID

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Jason Green

But isn't the term Manky only used to describe the 'inbetweeners' as opposed to pedigree forms???

Yes but its often easy to confuse them and sometimes I think people don't realise that pedigree domestic ducks exist!