What you are saying makes sense and explains what I am seeing. It just doesn’t seem to fit with the book.
So the boys should look more like Mallards then? With neck rings and rust colored chests? I thought they would look like dark Campbell’s.
Now I am really confused. Here is the chart from Storey’s guide. Pattern types are listed as wild type, restricted, and dusky. Harlequin is listed as a light gene. So Storey’s is wrong?
Thank you! We ended up with 3 girls, 3 boys and one we aren’t sure of because it is from different parents. I did read Storey’s guide. What I don’t understand is why they have facial stripes and wild type duckling markings. Both the Khaki and Welsh Harlequin should be homozygous recessive for...
The first five of six eggs from my Welsh Harlequin hen and Khaki drake hatched today. If I did my genetics correctly, the girls are the lighter brown and the boys are the blackish brown. So far, 3 girls and 2 boys (2 of each in the picture).