Kea - would you happen to know if Rouen chicks differ in color? Josh brought home two yellow chicks (that I suspect are buff Runners) and two dark striped and dotted chicks (which look like the Rouen chicks I've seen pictures of).
I suspect there was a bit of a mixup, but still learning. :)
My memory says that Rouen babies look like Mallard babies, which would be the darker ones.
A Rouen, as I was taught, was the product of a Mallard crossed out to a White Duck, and then back to a Mallard. Makes a large flightless Mallard, effectively. (And Dad knew tons about ducks from being a hunter and being in DU.) You had to cross them back to assure the coloring, which is not assured in the initial outcross.
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Date: 2009-05-03 07:46 pm (UTC)I suspect there was a bit of a mixup, but still learning. :)
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Date: 2009-05-03 11:42 pm (UTC)A Rouen, as I was taught, was the product of a Mallard crossed out to a White Duck, and then back to a Mallard. Makes a large flightless Mallard, effectively. (And Dad knew tons about ducks from being a hunter and being in DU.) You had to cross them back to assure the coloring, which is not assured in the initial outcross.
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Date: 2009-05-04 07:41 pm (UTC)