I hatched out 3 Ancona Ducks! *NEW PIC POST 10*

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I had 8 shipped eggs and hatched out 3 successfully. First time effort, homemade bator. I'm happy but I'd like to do better next time. (and yeah I have a bid on 10 more eggs from someone else...
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They're fun little fuzzers! Here is their Flickr photo set .

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The seller says they're either lavender, or she did have a drake who hatched out a very light chocolate that only became apparent as he grew.

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Assuming they're lavender, it comes when you have silver (2 copies of Blue) added to Chocolate, right?

I've been having good success finding info of what you get combining colors. But I can't figure out what you get if you have Blue added to Chocolate.

And how does tricolor happen? Is it a merle gene like in dogs or what?

Thanks!
 
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At first I thought you got ripped off because they look just like pekin ducklings, however, I looked on holderreads website and it says they have:
Black Ancona Ducks

Blue Ancona Ducks

Chocolate Ancona Ducks

Lavender Ancona Ducks

Silver Ancona Ducks

Tri-Colored Ancona Ducks

So I guess the lavender is possible, can't help you out with the genetics though.
 
I wish I could help but have no clue but I wanted to ask greencastle_ducks what does a black/lavender look like?

Don't mean to hijack just curious.
 
We raised Anconas for close to 8 years and never once had silver or lavendar ducklings hatch like that. We did however from time to time have pure white ducklings hatch, and they looked identical. We always culled the pure white ones in favor of the random patches of color. However that being said, they still carry some of the runner pattern, bibbed and pied markings that would want in an Ancona breeding pen. (In the picture, L to R: blue, chocolate blue, black and silver.) K&S

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LOL great, like I need more suspense in my life after a month straight of it!
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The breeder does have one white hen. But 3/8 of them, and ALL the ones I hatched out, being the same?

In the breed I specifically chose because you COULD distinguish who was who by markings?
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IF they feather out all white, that's just the bib + runner + pied pattern covering the actual extended black + modifications colors, right?

Time will tell
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They are yellow ducklings & will likely grow out to be white adults. I have had nothing to do with them but my book says that "the pattern of day-olds is a replica of adult plumage" & that some will hatch out yellow & be white as adults (Holderread p. 130).

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Apparently so. Homozygous blue & brown dilution on extended black ie E/E, Bl/Bl, d/d (d/-). I am not to sure how brown & blue dilutions combined express on e+ birds (absent for extended black), possibly similarly on areas of black pigmentation? Brown dilution is sex-linked recessive & has to be pure in males for it to express.

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Extended black + brown dilution = chocolate. Extended black + brown dilution + blue dilution (homozygous) = lavender.

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I am not too sure, but haven't heard of any single specific gene. Rather, gene combinations that cause the effect, specifically the runner & dominant bib genes (+ dilutions in colours other than black & white). My book says tht the wildest colours usually occur in birds with only a single dose of the extended black gene, so does a single dose of E allow other colour to express in some instances? I have always been under the impression the effect of E is complete in the heterozygous state? The few pics I have seen of tri-coloured birds have shown birds that are for example, blue & white with the odd dark feather; this I appears to be some leakage.

Cheers
 

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