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Pet Forum / Birds / Birds / November 2003Yellow ducks
Ducks are traditionally shown bright yellow in drawings. Are there any bright yellow ducks in real life? How did this convention get started? -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary. Roedy Green <look-at-the-website-for-actual-Roedy@mindprod.com> says... > Ducks are traditionally shown bright yellow in drawings. Donald and Daffy would disagree! > Are there any bright yellow ducks in real life? How did this > convention get started? Probably from those domesticated "farm" ducks. What are they called? Pecans? Picans? Jack  Signature*Top-posters are generally ignored* aka Keet Visit my webpage at http://junior.apk.net/~jac/ "Always proofread to see if you any words." >Subject: Re: Yellow ducks >From: High Flight jac@apk.net >Probably from those domesticated "farm" ducks. What are they called? >Pecans? Picans? Pekins. Regards > Roedy Green <look-at-the-website-for-actual-Roedy@mindprod.com> says... > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Probably from those domesticated "farm" ducks. What are they called? > Pecans? Picans? Yes! Baby pekin ducks have yellow down. They grow white feathers though. No doubt that's the inspiration for the pictures and the classic rubber ducky bath toys. See: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/Pekins/BRKPekin.html two pictures of babies at the bottom of the page. They're certainly cuter than most baby birds! -- Lou Boyd > > Roedy Green <look-at-the-website-for-actual-Roedy@mindprod.com> says... > > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > -- > Lou Boyd Only thing cuter IMHO is a baby goose... Baby emus come in a close second tho'. ;-) http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/NDG/Ratites/BRKEmu.html Kat >^,,^< Cats-haven Hobby Farm >^,,^< Katra@centurytel.net >^,,^< "There are millions of intelligent species in the universe, and they are all owned by cats" -- Asimov Custom handcrafts, Sterling silver beaded jewelry http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=katra > > Roedy Green <look-at-the-website-for-actual-Roedy@mindprod.com> says... > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > They're certainly cuter than most baby birds! > -- I think most light coloured ducks have fluffy yellow babies. Sweeeeeet. Louis Boyd <boyd@apt0.sao.arizona.edu> says... >>>Are there any bright yellow ducks in real life? How did this >>>convention get started? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > though. No doubt that's the inspiration for the pictures and the > classic rubber ducky bath toys. Speaking of Rubber Ducky, do you know (off the top of your head) who wrote and sang the hit novelty song of many decades ago? Jack Signature*Top-posters are generally ignored* aka Keet Visit my webpage at http://junior.apk.net/~jac/ "Always proofread to see if you any words." > Louis Boyd <boyd@apt0.sao.arizona.edu> says... > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Jack Not off the top of my head, but google search found it on the Quncy Jones "Dollar" LP recorded in 1972. He wasn't the original artist. I believe that honor goes to "Ernie" on Sesame St. That was not later than 1969. In those days Ernie was Jim Henson who did many of the puppet voices including Kermit. http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/tributes/henson/hensonarticle4.shtml You can download the Ernie-Henson version of "Rubber Ducky" and listen at: http://www.barbneal.com/sesame.asp Maybe your birds will enjoy it. ;-) Speaking of yellow ducks, what's Sesame Street's "Big Bird" supposed to be? -- Lou Boyd > Not off the top of my head, but google search found it on the Quncy > Jones "Dollar" LP recorded in 1972. He wasn't the original artist. I > believe that honor goes to "Ernie" on Sesame St. That was not later than > 1969. In those days Ernie was Jim Henson who did many of the puppet > voices including Kermit. It almost had to be later than 1969. Sesame Street didn't even debut until november of '69. > Speaking of yellow ducks, what's Sesame Street's "Big Bird" supposed to be? He's a canary. > -- > Lou Boyd -- Steve Louis Boyd <boyd@apt0.sao.arizona.edu> says... >>>Yes! Baby pekin ducks have yellow down. They grow white feathers >>>though. No doubt that's the inspiration for the pictures and the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Not off the top of my head, but google search found it [...] Thanks for the links, but that was meant to be a quiz. :P > Speaking of yellow ducks, what's Sesame Street's "Big Bird" supposed to be? This is a WAG. Bernie Kosar! Jack Signature*Top-posters are generally ignored* aka Keet Visit my webpage at http://junior.apk.net/~jac/ "Always proofread to see if you any words." > Roedy Green <look-at-the-website-for-actual-Roedy@mindprod.com> says... > > Ducks are traditionally shown bright yellow in drawings. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -- Pekins. K. >^,,^< Cats-haven Hobby Farm >^,,^< Katra@centurytel.net >^,,^< "There are millions of intelligent species in the universe, and they are all owned by cats" -- Asimov Custom handcrafts, Sterling silver beaded jewelry http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=katra > Ducks are traditionally shown bright yellow in drawings. > > Are there any bright yellow ducks in real life? How did this > convention get started? Not bright yellow like a canary or lutino ringneck, but: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/Swedes/BRKSwYel.html I remember Donald, Daisy, Huey, Dewey, and Louie as being white. Daffy was black. -- Lou Boyd > Ducks are traditionally shown bright yellow in drawings. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > -- > Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. Any baby ducks that will be white as adults start out as yellow colored fuzzy little cuties. ;-) Same with chickens. Most commercial ducks raised for meat are Pekins and they are a large white duck, with fuzzy yellow babies... K. >^,,^< Cats-haven Hobby Farm >^,,^< Katra@centurytel.net >^,,^< "There are millions of intelligent species in the universe, and they are all owned by cats" -- Asimov Custom handcrafts, Sterling silver beaded jewelry http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=katra |
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