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I have a Self-Black drake (purchased a few years ago from duckluck - I'm pretty sure my drake's daddy is her "Blackjack", his picture is the second post way back at the beginning of this thread) who is carrying a single (heterozygous) copy of a chocolate dilution over a Self-Chocolate hen and 3...

I have Chocolates. Self, Bibbed, and Magpie. And I'm done hatching for the year and have been selling all their eggs if you REALLY want some...

Thank you! I have 3 years of hard work into breeding my own line of Magpies pretty much from scratch, and this is the first year I'm REALLY happy with the ducklings. I have a few more Blues like her but with closer to a Pied pattern than proper Magpie markings that I will take pics of in a few...

Yep - they're Khaki. Very pretty!

Update on my favorite Blue Magpie duckling this spring - here she is as a week-old and the second picture was taken today!

I love this pen! It's similar to the ones that I have for my Calls, but mine are 5 years old now and got beat up when we moved them all to our new house last year, so I need to start looking at building permanent replacements. I also love that you used reclaimed shipping/pallet materials...

Just sharing pics of my two favorite Call ducklings so far this spring. I got off to a late start - these are both 1 week old. A Self-Chocolate and a Blue Magpie. These babies were 3 years in the making!

Buy the book "Colour Breeding in Domestic Ducks" by Chris & Mike Ashton! It's paperback, and not a very thick book, but it is worth every penny that it costs. It explains all the different color genetics in ducks and how they work, with lots of pictures and charts to make it easy to understand...

I still have my Hookbills, but I didn't actively breed them at all this year. We're in the middle of a year-long total home renovation, which is why I haven't been online much! I have them in a mixed flock with some Khaki Campbells, Stanbridge Whites, and a couple hybrids of the 3. The drakes...

Haven't been on BYC in awhile, and I had a lot of catching up to do on this thread! I sorted through all my juveniles from this spring and I have 10 boys that are going to a pet home tomorrow morning - including the little Magpie drake "Checkers" that I posted some pictures of awhile back. He's...

I posted a picture of this little Magpie Call duckling, "Checkers" on another thread awhile back... ... and wanted to post an updated picture of him now that he's almost all grown up!

Quote: AH! I was there for about an hour on Saturday afternoon, I saw all the sweeties in your sale coops, and I actually looked around for you a little bit... I wanted the Chocolate drake you had for sale! But, since it's looking like we're not going to be in our new house until well after...

Here's a couple of this year's drakes, almost all grown up now! "Little Boy Blue" is a Blue Bibbed, and "Screech" is a Blue Fawn: This is one of my Lilac girls, "Cheerio": This guy is kind of a neat little oddity - I wasn't planning on keeping him, but he looks so neat I held onto him...

This little Chocolate Bibbed girl hatched this evening, along with her Black Bibbed and Blue Fawn siblings!

This is so bizzare - I've been hatching from my mis-matched trio of Calls all spring, and I've hatched NOTHING but Bibbeds and Blue Fawns. I just moved the second little pale Buff-colored Call duckling from this hatch into the brooder! I think they're Bibbed Lilacs. The rest are all Blue Bibbeds...

Quote: Yep - that Beige one should be a "Lilac". She received both the Blue dilution and the Chocolate dilution. I've been going over what I know of the genetics of my trio, and I think my little Buff "mystery" duckling is a Blue Dusky OR a Lilac just like yours!

Quote: Awwe, they are so cute. They look nice and healthy. Did they hatch on their own or did you have to help them? I asked duckluck so many questions about my eggs, and she was so helpful. I am glad I got to meet her. I am applying some of her tips in hopes of saving my last 8 eggs. I heard...

I just hatched a little mystery Call from my mismatched breeding pen. Daddy is a Self-Black, mommy is either a Blue Bibbed or a Butterscotch (I'm leaning towards the Butterscotch, BUT the Blue Bibbed DOES have some Butterscotch in her background too...none of them are exactly "pure" colors!). So...

Quote: Each of the parents must be carrying a recessive white gene. About 25% of all their babies will hatch out white. And they're adorable! Love the names! I want Self-Black Call ducklings SOOO bad! I have one Black drake now, and I'm supposed to be getting a pair of them from...

Quote: I give them their first drink of water as soon as I put them in the brooder. Then, I sprinkle a little bit of food in the water for them to dabble at before I introduce dry food. When I do introduce the dry food, I sprinkle a bit of on in the floor, around the bowl. They'll start...