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What makes you think drake? And how did I end up with a snowy Campbell? I don’t think that’s a thing?

The only other duck that this breeder could have had mixed in were runners. Could runner DNA give this colouring?

This is them as babies, if it helps (one of the khakis didn't make it).

I have these three 5-week-old Campbells - two are khakis, but what's up with the third? It was yellow at hatch, so I assumed it was a...

Okay, I moved the ducks inside, and she seems to be sitting on the fake eggs okay, but we will see what tomorrow brings.

Marshmallow the silkie was happily brooding her first clutch of eggs, and I thought they were due to hatch yesterday (Friday). On...

He (?) is only about a month old, but this is clearly a cockerel, right? Already bigger than the other two from the same hatch, and look...

This little friend hatched out of an ameraucana egg, so hen is either my splash wheaten or blue wheaten. Clearly she’s been exposed to...

At least one is part silkie! I usually keep my silkies separate from my regular flock, but Peanut here has 9 toes (4 on one, 5 on the...

Splotches

The chick is white (yellow), and has a few dark splotches on its back (can’t tell if blue or black)

Yeah, must be the marans hiding a wheaten gene. Now 3/4 chicks hatched from that hen’s eggs are yellow, the other is grey.

This is mom (for sure, she’s currently my only one who lays green eggs). Easter Eggers mix of unknown parentage. Possible father #1...

Supposedly these two are full siblings! They definitely share a mother at least. I’m guessing the yellow one’s father must be the marans...

Got two so far, and I see a few more pips and hear lots of cheeping in the eggs.