Call Duck Colors
Various colors and quality.
Call duck colors. Birds suitable for major competitions but may or may not reproduce. Using only these breeds we have gotten multiple different colors. We have gotten a neat lilac color female and also black bibbed males from their stock of blue fawn chocolate bibbed whites crested and butterscotch.
Each of our colors are pure as we separate into individual flight proof call ducks enclosures. By bob johnson tallahassee fl call ducks available for shipping in the fall of 2020. See more ideas about duck call ducks for sale ducklings.
It is a complicated color to breed and show but a hen with good color really stands out from the crowd at the shows. Most probably they are direct descendants of the wild mallard originating in holland. After 1865 call ducks were left out of the poultry club standards altogether until they were mentioned again in 1954 but only as ornamental ducks alongside carolina and mandarin ducks etc.
Due to the popularity of call ducks in the 1980s and 1990s the new colours of bibbed magpie and of course apricot achieved a standard description in 1997. As youngsters the blue fawn and the grey look very similar. Since then the black chocolate dusky yellow belly and khaki have also been entered the standards book.
Sep 5 2016 different call duck colors. Butterscotch calls are my favorite variety of all the colors available in call ducks. The nutmeg color is a regular gray call pattern with the brown dilution gene.
Years ago the little ducks were used primarily by waterfowl hunters as live decoys. Our current colors include blue fawn grey white pastel buff snowy and black bibbed. Today i purchased 2 lilac drakes 1 blue bibbed hen 1 black bibbed drake and 2 mystery quackers.