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So you see, I've had the little ducks for a while. The guy sold them to me as what I stated in the title and said they were brand new; not even a breed yet, but one that should be accepted into the standard soon. My problem arose when I searched them on the internet and came up with no results whatsoever. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough or in the right places, but I've looked a couple of different times to find nothing on them. I already had an idea that they probably weren't their own breed when I bought them, but I just lost my drake recently, and I'm honestly more upset at the idea of not being able to attain more like him than that I may have been lied to.
They're black ducks, maybe more Call sized than East Indie.
The drake was real long body wise, and had a white, splotchy sort of bib that stretched far down into his breast feathers and splashed up around his bill. He had bright green speculums, pronounced white streaks by each eye, and a bright, shimmering green head.
The hen is almost solid black, has a rounder bib and faint white eye striping. She has a much duller green sheen than he did and only has it in certain spot, and she has a normal shaped bill, but is very tiny (like a Call). She also has speculums, outlined in white.
Do you think I could cross an East Indie and a Snowy Call and get birds that looked like this?
I know little about genetics, so I thought I'd ask here. ouo
They're black ducks, maybe more Call sized than East Indie.
The drake was real long body wise, and had a white, splotchy sort of bib that stretched far down into his breast feathers and splashed up around his bill. He had bright green speculums, pronounced white streaks by each eye, and a bright, shimmering green head.
The hen is almost solid black, has a rounder bib and faint white eye striping. She has a much duller green sheen than he did and only has it in certain spot, and she has a normal shaped bill, but is very tiny (like a Call). She also has speculums, outlined in white.
Do you think I could cross an East Indie and a Snowy Call and get birds that looked like this?
I know little about genetics, so I thought I'd ask here. ouo