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The SPPA (I don't know if you guys have SPPA down there) recognizes Chocolates. They are one of the originaly varieties, you know. Swedes are a landrace from Germany (go figure, but it's the truth). They were originally bred in B/B/S, Chocolate, Deep Lavender and Deep Lilac (without Buff...

Yes... it is not helpful..... :\ :P Up here most people think that all self Blacks carry Dusky (which we think is recessive; that is our theoretic explanation of the color Iron (which is any Self-Black/non-Dusky cross))

Perhaps she's Lilac. Now, since there is alot of termonology differences between us, up here Lilac is Buff (md/md, d/-, bu/-, Bl/bl+,) with Black (E/E, md/md, d/-, bu/-, Bl/bl) So, she might be a Orpi/Swede Sexlink, which would result in the females being Lilac. Emily

Now, is that a fault for showing, or is it dictated that basically if Swedes have brown feathers they are not considered swedes? It's not like that up here in Canada. We have some of the world's last populations of Chocolate Swedes. Very rare, and still very authentic Swedish. I take it that you...

Yes! I MUST breed him. MUST.

It may be a fault but it's very genetically valuable I agree that Swedish should be hefty. They are a traditional meat breed. Rust hens have brown bars across there breasts and stomachs. The entire underwing is gray-brown, as well as the wingbar. The genetic color 'Rust' is actually not so much...

Jess, The Drake looks almost assuredly black to me. The Duck is a Splash. By the Way, Splash and Lavender are different colors. Lavender is Splash with Buff Dilution Emily

It's also dissapointing because I'm not breeding Swedes on account of that was my only duck. If I can find another swede duck (or 2... or 6), I still have two drakes to breed them to. Right now all I have to breed is a project mating.

Thanks. It's not so much sad as it is dissapointing. There aren't many ducks in that color, since that color is adverse to the Swedsihs Standard, which prohibits any expression of brown. So most Rust ducks get the dinner treatment, therefore there aren't really any populations of them. They...

Thank you. She was pretty. Her white was pretty messy, but she was getting old (5 years in may) I was hoping to improve by breeding her to the perfect drake in the picture, improving the bib, while adding the Rust to the offspring. Rust makes the wingbar mottled gray and brown, with the entire...

By the way, that's her in my picture (with her widower).

I am not breeding Swedes this year after all. My very valuable (and cuddly) Black Rust hen (my only hen at this point) went in to lay an egg this moring d had a fatal hemorage. (*sobs*) That duck was among the most valuable ducks in the country! Dead! No! I still have two Blue non-Rust drakes...