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Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« on: September 08, 2013, 10:21:37 PM »
What do you guys think? Full white front.

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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2013, 10:47:03 PM »
hybrid with domestic

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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2013, 10:48:51 PM »
 :yeah: See them quite often in park and golf course ponds.
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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2013, 05:54:30 AM »
Chances are its a domestic breed. Not necessarily a hybrid. The swedish breeds have a white bib on the front like that one does. They look like hybrids with the coloration but its standard to the breed(s).

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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2013, 07:04:59 AM »
Most likely hybrid.  I see drake mallards with a chocolate brown heads instead of green at parks too. 

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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2013, 07:43:25 AM »
Park duck!  Domestic.
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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2013, 08:48:00 AM »
Probably a hybrid.
Come mating season... any hen is fair game for mallards.
We used to raise ducks as kids, and I've seen groups of 6-8 mallard drakes raping every single one of our "pet" ducks.
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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2013, 09:04:41 AM »
Blue Swede, my parents raised them when I was young. I have seen them different times at public parks. People letting their pets go possible?

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Re: Saw this duck last week... Hybrid or weird molting phase mallard?
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2013, 09:39:31 AM »
I was going to say hvidbrystet dansk   or Danish white breasted, a domestic breed.   

 


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