Is this color “Buff”?

[My15Ducks]

Duck 1 and Background Duck look more Khaki to me. Foreground Duck might be considered Butterscotch.

I also wanted to add that the 2 5-week olds you showed before might more accurately be considered Pastel, but I still refer to them as the “Buff” Orpington breed. Your first adult girl is definitely Buff-colored, though!

They could certainly be sisters! I have a hen with very mixed genetics, and her offspring look very different from one another despite being full-siblings.

Thanks for the info! I don’t know much about pastels, but that would mean they have both blue dilute genes, right? I was kind of thinking that might be the case because they’re a lot lighter colored than any of my others. (The 2 5 week olds are named Goldie and Banana ).

Supposedly my ducks are a mix of Khaki Campbell, Cayuga, and Silver Appleyard. But it wouldn’t surprise me at all if there were other breeds in the mix.

Do you know if any of these breeds carry the buff gene? I’m not sure where that came from because I don’t know of anyone raising buff Orpington ducks around here.

 

[My15Ducks]

Duck 1 and Background Duck look more Khaki to me.

I thought Duck 1 was too light colored to be khaki? I’ll try to get a better picture of her

 

[Miss Lydia]

All 3 of my Buffs are light colored I like the darker one too make me think of butterscotch!

 

[My15Ducks]

All 3 of my Buffs are light colored I like the darker one too make me think of butterscotch! View attachment 3828432

Your buffs are so pretty! Are they blonde buffs or regular buffs?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Never heard of blond Buffs just Buff Orpington Ducks. I'll have to look that up.
They do say blond so yes I would say mine are blonds lol
https://fowlguide.com/buff-orpington-ducks/

 

[My15Ducks]

Never heard of blond Buffs just Buff Orpington Ducks. I'll have to look that up.
They do say blond so yes I would say mine are blonds lol
https://fowlguide.com/buff-orpington-ducks/

If I understand correctly, a blonde buff has 2 blue dilution genes. A regular buff has 1, and a brown buff has 0. I’m wondering if my 2 babies are blonde because they’re so pale

 

[Miss Lydia]

Might be the one I can see good in your pic looks light so probably blond.

 

[My15Ducks]

Here are new pictures of my baby drake from the previous pictures. He’s a couple months old now and has changed so much. Does he still look like a Pastel/lilac buff?
His name is Banana

 

[Bolfreak]

Here are new pictures of my baby drake from the previous pictures. He’s a couple months old now and has changed so much. Does he still look like a Pastel/lilac buff?
His name is Banana
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He is stunning! He might be or have Apricot mallard as his coloring? Look up the duck color calculator and play with it, it doesn’t always have pictures of the more rare colors, but it shows the name of the color.
Buff ducks do not breed true in that you will get percentages of the three varieties (Blonde,Buff,Brown or Light,Standard,Dark) from the same parents. Here’s seven of mine at about 5-6 weeks. Same parents both Light. Some of them had eye stripes and a darker bill, but they’re still feathering out for me to determine base color and sex.