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Muscovy ducks
If you want do not want caruncles.... here's a picture of a 4 year old hen. One of my lilac strong white-heads. Void of any textures.... just plain flat. Lilac is Blue and Chocolate gene. Cross with black drake will give you blue and black ducklings. There's no pie, but all ducklings will...- Trifolium
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- Forum: Other Poultry - Birds & Hatching Eggs
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Chickens and Ducks dying!
I would ask your local NPIP program for a necropsy just to make sure it's not something serious. We bring it to their lab and pay a small fee. They will test the bird dead or alive. If it's alive, they will put it down first. You don't even have to test all, just bring 1 or 2 to test for the...- Trifolium
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WANTED: Show Type Solid Black or Blue Muscovy Duck
An update for January 2018, I am still searching for the right drake. Does he exist?- Trifolium
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WANTED: Show Type Solid Black or Blue Muscovy Duck
As title says, I am looking for a APA Show Type SOLID color Black, Blue, or Chocolate muscovy. Adults or hatching eggs of said champions will need to be shipped to me in S. California. I am mainly looking for a drake to improve my flock, however, will make do with hatching eggs if necessary...- Trifolium
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Muscovy keepers share your pics!
Looks like a lavender hen, black hen, and a blue drake all with canizie. For being a pure lavender, I can't say for sure since it has a darker head... though that can be from poor conditions, color bleaching, sun-faded (which is odd since they are young and looks feathered out recently)... -
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Here's some lavender hens with a blue white-head drake on the right. -
Muscovy keepers share your pics!
@Ren2014 Al is right about that as well. Keyword there is 'recognized'. Lavender isn't even recognized as a color in the Standard of Perfection along with all of the color pastel combinations it can produce. Al is about pastels, isn't she? In a way, it depends on who you ask and how you... -
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My inner geek is going to have to dispute that. The link looks correct in genetics but isn't the described in the best way ( simplified and alternative names) so you probably misunderstood it. In muscovyduckcentral.com, Lavender is listed as Self-Blue which is another name for it. They also... -
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I've reached Al's Quakery years back but they always seem to be out of stock of the ones I want. So years back, to start my own flock, I've went around state to random backyard flocks to look for gem birds in the midst. Anyhow, if you want every color, there are really only three genes and... -
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The bird has chocolate. Possibly also with one copy of blue dilution making the brown lighter with some bluish tint which would make the bird in what some call lilac or blue fawn. There's too much color masking genes(white) making it hard to tell in the photos. Also looks like a young drake... -
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In the first photo, the juvenile looks like it has blue and chocolate combined in what they call Lilac or Blue Fawn. Maybe the drake is a Blue Pie split to chocolate. Verify by checking if the juvenile is a female because it can't happen to a male in that combo. -
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She looks like a blue with whitehead and pie. Even if mother was a self-blue (lavender), you wouldn't have got any lavender from lavender x blue cross because lavender is recessive and requires a copy from both parents to express unless the blue drake is split to lavender (something you can't... -
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Okay, then it's possible the offspring is chocolate or chocolate+blue only if it is female. So if you were buying it, go ahead and sex it. If it's a male, then the bird cannot be chocolate, it would be a carrier only. Very high probability of being chocolate. Gives 50% females of chocolate... -
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Those birds aren't lavender. They are blue. The brownish neck is probably a silver (double blue). Assuming drake and hen are both Blue Pie. Your offspring probability should have been: 12.5% Blue, 25% Blue Pie, 12.5% Silver Pie, 6.25% Silver, 6.25% Black, 12.5% Black Pie, and 25% White.