Another hatch later, and 3 more crested ducklings! I'm suspecting one of our ducks is sporting an invisible crest as four random mutations is a little beyond the realm of what I consider probable in the random mutation department... Either that, or we have a different crest mutation that's recessive, not incomplete dominant. Anyway, the best bit... pictures

The Original crested duckling. Currently being treated for angel wing, but I have his best (unbandaged) side toward us. Pretty sure he's a boy:

One of the three ducklings from the second hatch had to be dispatched. Every time it tried to drink it would fall over backwards and one day it couldn't get back up again, just kept falling backwards. :/ Apparently crests are associated not just with pretty hair dos, but the same gene also codes for other issues including balance.
This is the other duck from that hatch that also fell over while drinking, but managed to develop a rather odd looking technique to deal with it. It drinks normally now. It has an absolutely enormous hair do which is just starting to get adult feathers instead of down. No idea if it's a boy or girl yet.

The middle fawn duck in this one is the other crested. Probably won't be much more than a couple of sticky out feathers.

And this is a gratuitous photo of the whole family. Momma duck adopted the second lot of ducklings as her own, right after I sold all but two of hers at a few days old for brooder raising.

I also have a theory on ducks and why they get rap for being bad mums... It's not the ducks that's the problem, it's the darned ducklings... This lot regularly walked out of the paddock where they were supposed to be with mum and lounged around for hours leaving her quacking madly at the gate for them! Fortunately they're now big enough to be kept in by the fence.
One of almost everything, a veritable rainbow of chickens. And Project Motzle.