Black Swedish duck feather color?

[cnaudiffred]

Glad to know that now
Unfortunately, She never went broody until now which is after the drake passed, a neighboring mallord shacked up with her, so i'm anxious to see what the babies will look like.

 

[SouthernPride]

That's too bad. That Drake was very handsome. I love the white stripe around the back of it's head.

 

[AlohaDuck]

The greenish tint forming on the head are signs of a Drake. This is exactly how my drake looked at that age.

 

[LittleBlu]

There's two types of Swedish. black and Blue. Its normal for the green/blue feather coloring _

 

[LittleBlu]

So glad you posted this.  We bought "8 ducklings" in a box at auction.  I thought they might have been Muscovy, initially.  Now that they're feathering out, they look like these.  One even has a nice feather pouf on his head.  My children named him Feather Head.  Anyway, I only gave $3.25 for them, so sweet deal compared to the hatchery.  How do you like having these?  Good egg layers?  Anyone in the frozen north keep these over winter? 

They're supposed to be a very hardy breedm both good for meat birds and egg layers. Also very docile

 

[annarogetta]

All of my black swedes have black and green all over, and it gets weird because they have an iridescence to them where they look blue and purple. you can check on my photo album of My Ducks and possibly could see it, three of them are males and I have one female for black swedes

 

[4Hgirl]

Is Black Swedish an approved breed and variety for showing? Someone gave us one and would like to know if we can enter him into the 4H fair. Thanks!

 

[annarogetta]

Only blue swedish are the approved color for showing, due to that it is believed that blue swedes are hardier than black or splash/silver. If you want, you can get a splash/silver swede, and pair it with your black, then you get all blue babies that you can show

 

[Celtlore]

Black Swedish in the lead with two Rouens and Blue Swedish and another Black following. I love these ducks. So entertaining.

 

[chickiebean85]

THESE WERE MY 2 SWEDISH BLUES - THE GREY WAS MALE AND THE BLACK WAS THE FEMALE, AM CURRENTLY INCUBATING 6 OF HER EGGS SHE LEFT BEHIND FOR ME.

Yours look similar to mine only bigger. My black one quacks but the gray one doesn't but as you can see the black one is a bit bigger and I always thought the males were bigger.