At certain periods of the moult the head coloring of the drakes becomes a good buff color and later when the moult is complete, it changes to a copper color.
In many cases not over 10 or 12 ducks with one or two drakes will be kept.
Young Rouens of both sexes have female plumage until the last moult which occurs at about four or five months of age, when the drakes assume the adult male plumage.
The drakes of this breed and likewise of the Gray Call and the Mallard show a peculiar behavior with respect to the color of their plumage.
In the drakes on the other hand, there is a tendency for the white to come on the throat under the bill.
The smaller number of drakes should be used late in the season while the larger number will give better fertility early in the breeding season.
Where young drakes are used more ducks can be mated to them than is the case with old drakes.
In weight, the drakes will run from 2-1/2 pounds to 3 pounds or even a little larger.
These farms usually secure drakes for breeding from sources outside their own flocks each year but the usual practice is to exchange drakes with some other commercial grower.
Drakes as a rule run truer in color and hold their color better than do the ducks.
While the drakes do not fight each other they do at times injure and kill the ducks to some extent when three or four drakes may chase one duck.
The drakes of the best color do not as a rule fade or become mottled to any great extent with age.
The drakesare quite pugnacious and fight one another badly at times.
She picked up one of the drakes and ruffled his green capote with her fingers.
The drakes were handsome fellows, with pinkish grey bodies, their heads and necks covered with iridescent green feathers which grew close and full, changing to blue like a peacock's neck.
He has made ducks and drakes with some of Carrie's money, and that was why he was so ready to consent to marry her to me.
Deuce take it, have you been making ducks and drakes with your money?
But the next day, when he had gone up to the Drakes and exhibited the check for the delectation of Doris, his good intentions began to waver in the flush of triumph.
The evening at theDrakes had swept from him his last prejudices against the adventurous life on which he had embarked.
When he reached the metropolitan castle of the Drakes on upper Fifth Avenue, he found the salons still covered up in summer trappings, long yellow linens over the furniture, the paintings on the walls still wrapped in cheesecloth.
The drakes were handsome fellows, with pinkish gray bodies, their heads and necks covered with iridescent green feathers which grew close and full, changing to blue like a peacock’s neck.
I don't want him to come here and play ducks and drakes with what I have taken a lifetime to build up--and not easily either-- and to bring scandal on my name and memory.
He has simply gone from bad to worse, and would make ducks and drakes of the lot.
One of the most vocal of ducks; drakes have a loud pleasant caloo, caloo, constantly heard.
Drakes have a piercing speer-speer--hens a low quack.
Drakes whistle and twitter; hens have a slight quack.
In flight, drakes appear all black except for the flash of the slight gray underwing and the bright yellow swelling at the base of the upper bill.
Drakes croak, peep, and growl; hens have a mallard-like quack.
He will make ducks and drakesof her fortune," said they.
These birds are not numerous on the isles, and it was observed that the Drakeskept on the side most remote from the sitting-places.
In winter, one of his correspondents informs him, it unites in large flocks, the Drakes having then a whistle like the Plover; but it has not been heard to use this call during the breeding season.
It is only the drakes that display this constancy; a bereaved female continues her flight unheeding.
Early in March three drakes became distinguishable, the most advanced being complete in feather by the 15th, and all three perfect by April 1.
Henry kept marching up the left bank of the river, in the hope of finding a favourable opportunity to dash across; but every attempt terminated in making ducks and drakes of his brave soldiers.
Part of the produce of the recent subsidy was laid out in ships, and as the ships came to no good, it was said at the time that this appropriation of the money was very like making ducks and drakes of it.
Young Richard, or those who acted for him, continued to make ducks and drakes of the money of the English, which was being constantly wasted in wanton warfare.
Mostyn heard the voices of the Drakes down the road, and to avoid them he went up to his room, and from a window saw them enter the gate.
I wonder how all the Drakes are, especially Dolly.
It is much too precious an earthly boon for me to play ducks anddrakes with.
One does not play ducks and drakes with historical facts, or tamper with historical personages.
Two investigations of the effects of castration on ducks and drakes have been recorded.
The observations of Seligmann and Shattock on the relation of spermatogenesis to the development of nuptial plumage in drakes probably receive their explanation from the above facts.
Thus in drakes the effect of castration is that the secondary sexual character remains permanently instead of being lost and renewed annually.
Captaine Christopher Lister a man of great resolution, captaine Edward Carelesse, aliàs Wright, who in sir Francis Drakes West Indian voyage to S.
Elizabeth Murray has the Strathleckie property; that ought to be enough for her, especially as she is going to marry a penniless cousin, who will perhaps make ducks anddrakes of it all.
I'll save enough for us two, though I do make 'ducks and drakes of my fortune.
But, my dear girl, you needn't make ducks and drakes of your fortune trying to feed and cure and clothe all the poor wretches you see.
This cooing noise may be heard for a long distance across a quiet loch, especially, as often happens, if several drakes are together.
The Sheldrakes moult once in autumn, the remaining species the same, but the drakes of these latter change their small feathers twice, once in early summer and once in autumn.
After the Drakes came the Lattons, one of whom, John, held a remarkable number of offices under William III.
Then might he have light guns, drakes or falconets, which he could take along by-roads?
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