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Though, you can get lilac females out of blue drake/choc duck pairing. Just not lilac males.

It may be too far of a drive for you, but I have an abundance of chocolate drakes in northeast ohio.

Friends, I need some help with silver, particularly from people who have bred blue and silvers. I understand how the genetics work, but I find some sites that show silver as almost white-looking, some that show it as a light blue, and some where they actually look, well, silver. I want to...

Loving the mid-molt/partly-bleached pattern on this girl!

The girls have been able to do this for weeks now, so the boys are happy to show off

^^that one has the perfect flat underbelly I was talking about. My favorite duck that I wanted to be female turned out to be male too ;)

No, I was talking about two different birds. I meant this white one And this chocolate one in the background If this one is the same as the one in the first photo... Sorry, but I'm 98% sure it's male

Head shape/size can be good to sex, but without seeing them in direct comparison it's hard for me. My example is male on top, female on bottom

I'd I'd say your white one is likely female based on head size, but that's not my best way to sex. Pretty sure your chocolate with blue-green wingtips is female, too, because of the silhouette of the body from the side. How old are they? Between 3 and 4 months it will be SUPER easy to tell...

In general, an animal is not going to eat anything that's toxic or poisonous unless they have nothing else to eat. Always take commercial feed recommendations with a grain of salt--commercial feeds and recommendations are typically developed for confined animals with little to no access to...

She was a Yorkshire/Hampshire cross, often called a blue butt colloquially :)

Ye I only have three adults. And the broody female laid her eggs in a nest box off the ground that she guarded. The other laid hers in a corner on the ground.[/quote Yup, I assumed since you said you had a silver adult male as part of your adult trip that he was the only possibility for a...

Silver male and chocolate female will give you blue ducklings. It's hard to see if the picture--that duck looks silver, but since one parent was black, he can't be. Silver x black =100% blue ducklings. Unless of course, say, a black mama tucked a blue female's egg up under her and hatched it...

Whoops, just noticed that wasn't actually your duck! That'll teach me to read the thread at night and actually reply the next morning ;)

Chocolate is always a sex-linked trait. With chocolate, if a female gets one gene for chocolate, she will be chocolate. However, a male needs to get chocolate genes from both his parents; if he only gets one copy of the gene he will just be a carrier of chocolate. So he can pass along his...

I never go by leg thickness either. Top and bottom look like females based on how their bodies curve away from their legs in a more rounded shape. Males are more flat/in a straight line on the bottom like the middle pics.

Thanks! I guess it's not easy to see in the picture, but she has blue and brown on her back. Like blue fawn--is that what you're saying will even out as she matures?

Resurrecting an old thread but... Is this the "calico" you were searching for?

Isn't double dilution of black silver? Cream and buff both come from chocolate; was that a typo?

And last, does anyone else have any with masks like this? Will it turn into white head as she matures?