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Magpie is a very distinct set of markings. Colored cap and back. Ancona is like the ancona duck, asymmetrical and more spotty/ speckled. Some say that ancona patterned calls are simply mismarked magpies but I disagree as you can breed them true to type. Here are some examples: Pied...

Jealous! I've been trying to get my hands on a chocolate ancona patterned call! I have some nice magpie chocolate hens but don't have a drake so haven't been able to get any chocolate offspring yet. But I'm hoping I will in the spring by using a black, chocolate carrier drake over them!

The "pied" gene is a funky one and does tend to be dominant from what I've bred. So you will likely get a variety of offspring with pied or heavily bibbed markings. Do you have any pics of her?

Unless your ducks are pure to color (which it sounds like they are not) you are going to get a variety of colors from them. You likely won't get any chocolate unless your drake is a carrier. As black will be dominant over the chocolate so you need a chocolate gene in the drake to get chocolate...