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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:28 am
by pntailhntr
timbre35 wrote:Nevermind, I got it. I had to use one of my dumb cards.
Better watch it, you run out, you die
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:58 am
by Warren
the waterfow doc here at state just said that it is a hybrid
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:25 pm
by pntailhntr
Warren wrote:the waterfow doc here at state just said that it is a hybrid
NOPE!
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:20 pm
by Blackduck
Warren wrote:the waterfow doc here at state just said that it is a hybrid
Now there is a voice of reason. He does know that hybrid is not sex between a male and female but between two different but sexually compatible species.

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:27 pm
by bust em
Mallard
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:40 pm
by Caller1
"the doctor" is not a waterfowl doc. Really not certain he ever got his masters or undergrad for that matter. Anyone seen any of this guys credentials?
Do really even have a job, the doctor?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:59 am
by labman77
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:55 am
by tobydawg
I emailed the pics to Dr. Kaminski at MSU. His judgement, based on the pics, was mallard x black duck hybrid. He also sent the pics to some of his colleagues to see what they thought as well.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:51 am
by Blackduck
They have ducks in Poland?

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:52 pm
by ms_malrd_melee
Mallard. If you check delta waterfowls website, there is a quiz that you can take that has pictures of ducks who aren't in full plumage and there is one of a drake mallard that looks just like that.
http://www.deltawaterfowl.org/multimedi ... s=00000000
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:57 pm
by tobydawg
That bird in the DW quiz doesn't even show the bird's body, all you've got to look at is the head, which is not close to the bird I got. The green coloration is coming in all over the bird's head on the quiz, but is filled in in a distinct stripe on my bird. I also got further info on the bird via Dr. Kaminski from one of his colleagues: he agrees that the duck is a mallard x black duck hybrid, most likely the product of a F1 hybrid backcrossed to a full mallard, which gives it more physical mallard characteristics than a F1 cross would possess.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:11 am
by goosebruce
so thats the technical way of saying its got one in the woodpile somewhere!
I can say without an ounce of doubt, its a duck. and if its a duck, it needed killing. so good job all around. No shame in having to resort to killing halfbreds, young or sick ones.... they need to die as well.
Speaking as part hybrid (Im 50% lesbian, bwhahahahaah), that is defiently, and clearly a duck. travis
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:50 am
by Wingman
Ahh, the old F1 backcross. I didn't think of that
Congrats on the bird, man! You'll probably never do that again. It will look great on the wall.
Black hybrid
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:08 pm
by mixeffects
I killed a duck two years ago thatt according to the books was a Mexican duck. Had white only on one edge of the speculum and no white any where else on the duck. had an olive bill and orange legs. i saved it for a while hoping to learn more, but eventually wrote it off as unique coloring or a mallard hybrid.