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Thank you Miss Lydia!

Looney babies at various young ages. All the same group. You can see the ones with rippling on their tails are the true looney. The others with solid colored tails are barred carrying ripple

Ok, so I'm bumping and updating this thread after a full season of breeding! Findings thus far: Ripple and barred are both recessive genes (as we all knew) So to get a looney patterned bird, the bird needs one copy of EACH from BOTH parents. Otherwise they feather out as a barred that carries...

It should give you ripple ducklings as looney is a combination of ripple and barred. Yet both genes are needed in each parent to produce the pattern. Colors will obviously depend on the parents

Thank you!

They are young, all this years hatch so not fully filled out yet. This is about the extent of it for my adult drakes. And for hens, theres the head of a 3 year old hen in one of the above pics. I breed away from the heavy caruncles because I personally don't like them heavily caruncled

Yes! Some of us who don't breed for show breed for less of the caruncles (red on the faces). Personally, I think it makes a much more attractive bird. Plus, I like my ducks to be able to see And thank you Miss Lydia! Years of breeding have gone into them and I am proud to share what my ducks...

Thank you! I had a feeling you would be the first to see and comment ;)

There has been little discussion in the past regarding "looney" patterned muscovy. I have taken on the project of breeding them and recording them this season since there seems to be a huge lack of pictures and documents regarding this specific muscovy patterning. Here are some of the ones I...