Duck Identification Needed

[polecat]

mmmmmmmmm..didn't know that !!! never had ducks either!!!!well yet anyway!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifguess u learn sumfn new everyday!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SPIKER]

Boy haven't any of you had a BAD HAIR DAY!? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif well ducks can have them too! that or it was wear you're funkiest tupee day at the duck work zone! hahaha: /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

not sure myself maybe they are the tufted ducks that we hear about every now and again...

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[DAP]

Mark ... the tufted ducks you speak of are actually accidentals from asia. Check a field guide. Ironically, their 'tuft' is barely visible. I did have the good fortune to see one once in all places in a bay 500 yards from J.F. Kennedy airport in NYC.

My friends at Cornell say these ducks in this thread are mutative - like them wisconsin frogs with 5 legs, 2 heads etc.

 

[GareyD]

Looks to me like there is some "Crested Blue Swedish" in the family tree...

Crested Blue Swedish

 

[mundamanu]

<font color="blue"> Here</font> is an interesting page about crested ducks with some pictures. There is a picture toward the bottom of a few ducks that approximate the coloration of the white ones under investigation.

It seems that any breed but the Muscovy can be bred crested given the proper genetic combination.

 

[DAP]

WOW. That's a great link. I'm gonna have to resubmit to my Cornell contact.

First mutation/cross breeding I've seen! Way kewl.