EllieandOlive
Songster
Just wondering the likelihood of this. I have blue swedishes and french muscovys, with one drake of each. I had a muscovy mama sitting on a mixed clutch of eggs, and two hatched earlier (normal time) and the rest were definitely muscovys and took 35+ days. The whole time I thought I had an early muscovy duckling and a blue swedish, based off of appearance. I've bred several rounds from my 1/2 pekin 1/2 blue swedish drake (looks full blue swedish in coloring, but has some pekin-ish shape) to my full blue swedish gals. All offspring has been classic blue black and splash swedish in appearance, even though they technically have 1/4 pekin. Then I get this guy who is HUGE and grew super fast, but is not looking like my french muscovys at all except in size. He looks exactly like a full pekin. So I can only assume that this is from my blue swedish parents and that 1/4 pekin gene went full pekin in appearance for this duckling? I was pretty confused for a long time because he didn't look like my french muscovys except the full white color and giant size. What are your thoughts? I'll post a picture in a minute when I go out to feed everyone!
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