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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 white Campbell, but it's colouring is coming in not-white? I'm brand new to ducks - will it go white as it gets older? Is it some other colour or mix of colours...

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 Thursday, I got some day-old ducklings, so I popped them under her and she took them happily, but they’re pretty busy and she seems to have mostly forgotten about her...

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 at that comb and scraggly crest… I’m not too worried about it, I need a new roo, just wondering if I’m right.

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 my silkie roo, because this guy has black skin and 5 toes on one foot. Roo is black, with lots of reddish leakage. Is there a way to make some guesses about...

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 other), so it looks like Muffin has some ‘splaining to do. He’s a black silkie with quite a bit of reddish leakage, so the black must be covering something that...

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 (blue copper marans, rehomed about a month ago) Possible father #2 Lavender Orpington. Apparently I don’t actually have a recent photo of him - this is him as...

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 with some sneaky wheaten genes.

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