But I do have plans to go to Nationals in Ohio. Haven't decided whether or not I'm going to get a booth or just do presales probably depends on how much I have left when the show comes around.
Was thinking, due to to confusion with blue when calling them either Silver or Splash. We should go with Paint. I have been thinking long and hard on an appropriate name to call the color.
Just noticed I have a second baby that is also exhibiting both blue and splash. Also realizing we should have called them something like Pied instead of Splash. People are assuming two copies of east indies Blue gives you Splash, it doesn't. Grandma was a blue out of 2 black East Indies. The...
No all birds are originally from black east indies birds. No other ducks where owned at the time of creating their parents and their parents are separated in breeder pens.
The second cool one is a splash that has almost no white on it and is showing the complete pattern that's underneath the splashes. As I have more and more splash I can see random spots of this color but it's really cool to see one that shows almost zero white feathers.
So I hatched out a bunch out this year just playing around to see who carries what genes. This is my grow out pen so ignore the fact that there's other random birds in there. I'm waiting for everyone to be full grown before I decide who stays because they're so wildly different in pattern and I...
Splash East Indies update. (Splash seems to work better because everyone so far when I say silver assumes that all Blues can create Silver and that's just not how this gene works in the Indies.)
The female is average Black East Indies size the male is big though. I will be working on their size...
I almost feel they would more appropriately be called Splash East Indies. (Also it's amazing how much they can grow in a week. The 2 top ones are 1 week older.)
UPDATE: They all have a little bit of orange Feathering and are basically a very light silver / white-ish color. They're still growing their wing feathers but are turning out absolutely stunning. They 2 older hatched 3/22/23 so they are 8 weeks old. The younger one is just 1 week younger.
No Blue East Indy, he was just standing funny in the one pic. He wanted to get further into the corner than the one on the floor was letting him, so he tried going up and over.
I have been breeding show lined black East Indies for several years now. The year before last my friend produced a blue out of black ducks and I had assumed it was just a crossbred. Like many people online I was quick to jump on the blue East Indies are just crossbreds bandwagon. But I gave her...