Need a Call Duck expert to identify coloring....

[QuailQT]

We got these calls at the Mt. Hope, OH auction last month. It says that they are "Blue Lace", but I can't find anymore info on that color or pictures to compare ours to. I went to www,callducks.org and they have a Blue Fawn photo on there and ours kind of look similar to those.

Here is a link to my duck page with more photos of our pair----

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=43379-ducks

Also, she has two eggs in her nest and will sit on them at night and sometimes during the day. Is this normal for ducks to do, or is it possible that she just can't make up her mind if she wants to brood them or not? It was colder last night and warm today-thought maybe she knew what she was doing and was just trying to keep them the same temperature till she gets as many as she wants to sit on. I think that the pair is fairly young, but not sure. It didn't say on the tag.

Thanks for any help in advance!

 

[StevenW.]

Yep, Blue Fawns; very pretty!

 

[call ducks]

i also think it is blue fawn... You should get 50% blue fawn 25% grey and 25% pastel/apircot call ducks when bred back to each other

 

[Borncountry419]

I'm not an expert, but the drake looks blue fawn and the hen looks more apricot? Unless there's a light version of the blue fawn... My blue fawn hens are pretty much as dark as a gray call hen, then with blue overlaying of course.

 

[call ducks]

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i believe apricots are a solid (ish) color like

 

[Borncountry419]

Then I would assume she's a light phase of something or else a mix?

 

[call ducks]

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Yes that is true.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I have a hen that's also been only sitting on the nest at night and occasionally during the day. Maybe it's normal, but I assumed she was killing the eggs by doing that. Your drake is blue fawn, the hen I'm not too sure about.
Here is a picture of my blue fawn hen:

 

[QuailQT]

Here are pictures of a BF drake and a hen on the main call duck website. I thought mine looked very similar to them. The duck and drake really don't look much alike on this site's page and our hen looks like it has the same speckling on her body as that other one.

http://www.callducks.org/Blue_Fawn_standard.html

Very pretty ducks you all have there!

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I have a hen that's also been only sitting on the nest at night and occasionally during the day.  Maybe it's normal, but I assumed she was killing the eggs by doing that. Your drake is blue fawn, the hen I'm not too sure about.

Here is a picture of my blue fawn hen:

Looking back at this I realize what a cutie of a hen I had there. But that drake . . . Eek! I would never have that in my flock now.