Sooo, I have my little rouen drake Elliot who grew up with Templeton, he's roughly 11ish weeks old now, and he FLIES, alot, just today i thought he was done gone outta here, buh bye see ya!
in the evenings the young ducks have gotten up the habit of running all over the field chasing bugs and just having a good ole time before bed, well, they were over by the woods across the field *cringe*, and I guess something spooked them, as they all were having a hay day and then all of a sudden they came running the other way, Elliot started flying, he did three complete circles around the field about 20 or more feet up, then sort of crash landed in the chicken pen. I figured he'd have kept on going.
now I was always told that rouens were about the same size, and grew like pekins, well by 11 weeks old Boris could get...maybe an INCH off the ground he was so heavy.
I got Elliot from TSC during chick days and have always debated whether he was pure or not, i can't remember what hatchery our TSC got their chicks and such from, Elliot isn't very big, infact he's smaller than templeton now, and isn't built like any rouen I've seen, even the non-showy types I've look like pekins body wise.
heres a pic of him, I know he's not a mallard because he's bigger than the mallards...does he look pure?
he's a little A--hole of a duck, ALWAYS stirring up trouble, but I'd hate for him to try to fly off at some point.
in the evenings the young ducks have gotten up the habit of running all over the field chasing bugs and just having a good ole time before bed, well, they were over by the woods across the field *cringe*, and I guess something spooked them, as they all were having a hay day and then all of a sudden they came running the other way, Elliot started flying, he did three complete circles around the field about 20 or more feet up, then sort of crash landed in the chicken pen. I figured he'd have kept on going.
now I was always told that rouens were about the same size, and grew like pekins, well by 11 weeks old Boris could get...maybe an INCH off the ground he was so heavy.
I got Elliot from TSC during chick days and have always debated whether he was pure or not, i can't remember what hatchery our TSC got their chicks and such from, Elliot isn't very big, infact he's smaller than templeton now, and isn't built like any rouen I've seen, even the non-showy types I've look like pekins body wise.
heres a pic of him, I know he's not a mallard because he's bigger than the mallards...does he look pure?
he's a little A--hole of a duck, ALWAYS stirring up trouble, but I'd hate for him to try to fly off at some point.
