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[Nemesis Prime]

Friend of mine bought Silver Appleyard hatching eggs and this is what popped out of mixed white and blue eggs.

Only one has a mohawk, is this normal?

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Could you get a picture without the heat lamp?

 

[KathiQuacks]

Agreed, very hard to tell with the lamp.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Could you get a picture without the heat lamp?

Yes I'll try to get another photo. But I'm not exactly sure what that's going to accomplish? The dark one is brown and yellow and the rest are yellow.

 

[KathiQuacks]

Yes I'll try to get another photo. But I'm not exactly sure what that's going to accomplish? The dark one is brown and yellow and the rest are yellow.

The lamp makes it hard to see the right colors and patterns. There’s a couple different breeds with ducklings that are brown and yellow + all yellow.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Yes I'll try to get another photo. But I'm not exactly sure what that's going to accomplish? The dark one is brown and yellow and the rest are yellow.

None of those are Silver Appleyards. None of them have the restricted allele which results in the Mohawk.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Yes I'll try to get another photo. But I'm not exactly sure what that's going to accomplish? The dark one is brown and yellow and the rest are yellow.

The heat lamp puts a red color on everything, and can be hard to tell exact colors of the birds peach fuzz.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

They wouldn't hold still and my phone camera is old. You can see the colors of each better in some of these.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

None of those are Silver Appleyards. None of them have the restricted allele which results in the Mohawk.

That's what I thought, Holderread farms never mentioned anything but yellow ducklings with a dark mohawk and tail, but Metzer has photos on their site of some mallard looking babies and then photos of (what is probably Holderread) Silver appleyard ducks as what they're supposed to grow up to be. And now some people are calling these "dark phase" which really pisses me off because I feel like that's just a trash excuse for crappy breeding.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

That's what I thought, Holderread farms never mentioned anything but yellow ducklings with a dark mohawk and tail, but Metzer has photos on their site of some mallard looking babies and then photos of (what is probably Holderread) Silver appleyard ducks as what they're supposed to grow up to be. And now some people are calling these "dark phase" which really pisses me off because I feel like that's just a trash excuse for crappy breeding.

That's what I thought, Holderread farms never mentioned anything but yellow ducklings with a dark mohawk and tail, but Metzer has photos on their site of some mallard looking babies and then photos of (what is probably Holderread) Silver appleyard ducks as what they're supposed to grow up to be. And now some people are calling these "dark phase" which really pisses me off because I feel like that's just a trash excuse for crappy breeding.

The restricted allele is dominant to wild type (normal mallard). So, the wild type can hide from many generations back and result in mallard looking ducklings every once in a while. But, the ducklings in your picture have other genes not found in Appleyards.