The Incredible Chick-duck

The incredible chick-duck was hatched by a mallard, imprinted on 4 incubator hatched mallards, and then, when they were playing a little too rough for him, and his nest mates were separated from their mama, bunked in with even more mallards.

Chick-duck at rear of duck flock

Now, chick-duck has a little size disadvantage compared to the other ducks.  The others are nearly full grown, and showing some nice coloring of their speculum, or wing patch.

Mallard speculum is white-black-blue-black-white

The blue main color of the mallard wing patch has a black bar bordered by a white bar, which is distinctive of the breed. The chick duck is at least half Barred Rock Chicken. Here is his daddy:

Chick-duck's daddy, and some hens

At this point, we think Chick-duck is a male, and a pure barred rock. Time will tell. In the meantime, he thinks he is a duck, that does not like the water.

Hiding in the grass

And we’re fine with that.

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