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I had a good friend tell me that egg color comes from the duck (since most feather color is determined by drake). He has selectively incubated colored eggs and confirmed those girls lay colored eggs. However, this might be different for Cayugas since the bloom is dark, not the shell. His...

Yes, I needed to go a different route from Bib even though I had to introduce White because of the Crest. My results would be back to Black from a Black drake on Lilac Mallard duck (among other options: solid Black). That’s only because I won’t keep any Bibs for breeding. I’m not sure how many...

Love your Runners! They are definitely unique looking. I obsessively keep records and band all of my birds, it’s the only way to do proper research. I’m fortunate to be able to study my birds so much every day, I can usually tell which eggs are from which hen and where their hidey hole to make...

Color pic detail today- BC Blue Cayuga (male SL) oranger feet Inter - Blue from a Buff egg (SR), darker feet (female??) also larger but is two days older. Bills and body are same color. Lilac girl And two back feather comparisons from my male turkeys Sweetgrass with tigery striped feathers and...

You are absolutely right, a lot of info we “have” keeps getting passed on as truth or experience when it’s likely neither. Best thing to do is test it out and try. The color calc said White and Buff = Blue Mallard (among others, I was just explaining my non Bib approach to get a Crested Black...

Too long to quote so here’s answers in a new post: SR straight run (don’t know if male or female) SL sex linked (tell by color at hatch) What color are you calling Trout? Have you played with the color calculator? Let me know your results, I play with it (and the turkey one and the goose one 😆)...

Here’s the article, superb information: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/mallard-derived-duck-color-genetics-basics.74277/

I think your light colored guy would be a Splash, not uncommon in Runners and Anconas. Remember that “white” is what is presented visually but genetically they can be any color (I’ll post the link on duck color genetics, it’s a great thread if you can wrap your brain around it 🫢 Also the bibbing...

Well, I’ve learned then not to ask for opinions formed out of ignorance.

Thanks for making my point, you didn’t have to be a troll to get there. If I have liver spot Dalmatians it’s same species, same breed as black spot so I’d call it a Variety. It’s not a separate breed. The terms are interchangeable and in this case to me not important. In my original post I...

I don’t think that’s accurate here. You have Mallard based and Muscovy, same species, different breeds. Interbreeding isn’t important to color varieties because the offspring are sterile. By this logic Buff ducks would be three separate breeds and they’re not. Buff plus Buff gives any of three...

Like in turkeys, the “breed” is Turkey. The colors are varieties. There are Cayugas that aren’t Black, which genetically is impossible if Cayuga were a breed. So the breed here more represents a body type than a breed. My Cayugas tend to be a bit more body than my Buffs and lay greyish eggs. So...

The last three hatched today, a Buff, a very hopefully Lilac from a Cayuga egg and a Blue from a Cayuga egg (so should be male). Posting pics of the color progression of the Lilac, other than bill color she hatched dark and turned very yellow as she dries. I haven’t found ANY pictures online of...

Definitely a Blue. Keeping until I know if male or female. Dried picture with two Buffs and three Cayugas.

I currently have of breeding age 1 Cayuga and 2 Buff drakes (one light, one standard) as well as 4 Cayuga ducks and 1 Buff (light). The Standard Buff doesn’t seem to get any action as he’s usually muscled off by one of the other drakes, so it’s a possibility but remote. I was trying for sex...

I was answering the question from April 2024 specifically about PT testing. Some things change, like “selling from your farm” didn’t used to be required to test, but now it does for hatching and eating eggs as well as live birds. It’s the NPIP part that’s optional and doesn’t make a lot of sense...

https://tvmdl.tamu.edu/poultry/flock-owner-information/ Price is set by the tester and there is a county map of testers on the site. Looks like all eggs and birds need to be PT tested regardless of where you’re selling from and shows require this at the door. The NPIP program is optional.

Hope this helps. I signed up to train for testing for my own flock and others. Price is set by the tester and there’s a county map link thru this site as well. I believe this is different from NPIP which is optional. Would appreciate thoughts/opinions on the reasons for doing this combined with...

Posting this publicly. I checked the major hatcheries selling Cresteds, but only Metzer talks about breeding. Eggsnatcher’s link shows that Crested plus Crested equals a larger crest vs Crested plus Non. I don’t see how anyone would know that if so many died/had problems. Plus this breeder is a...

Good info @eggsnatcher ! I want to introduce the Crested to my flock and am curious if anyone has real, personal info instead of parroting and repeating the same stuff over and over and judging others who are willing to experiment. I have four Crested ducklings and am hoping for mainly...