If you have runner ducks of different colors

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do you get one color or the other when they breed and hatch. If you have a chocolate and a blue or a black and blue or so forth and what if you have fawn colored runners in that mix. I am just curious. Or is just a muddy mix?
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It depends on the genders of the ducks. It would be easier if you list what sexes you have in each color. Chocolate on Black, for example, is a sex-linked mating.
 
I'll be experimenting in the spring. I have 2 white drakes, 1 white duck and 5 other ducks of various colours. I hope to hatch a few out to see if the white gene is dominant, have no idea of the parentage of my coloured ducks.
 
White is definitely not dominant. There are several good duck books that have genetic sections. Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks is one that a lot of people have and like.
 

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