1st 2 out of 60 muscovys hatched..pics

[melissa508]

I just hatched my 1st 2 out of 60 muscovy eggs in my incubator.

I never knew much about duck color genetics & am looking for some info.

These came from a pen that had a magpie muscovy F & a white muscovy F , there was also a blk/whit pied drake for a short time & a chocolate drake for most of the time on these 2 hens.

I thought i had read that choco muscovy M made sex link daughters that were chocolate..is that correct?

what other colors could pop up from these matings??

The photo showing the 2 ducklings, would those b considered choco pied ?

 

[Goat_Walker]

* jealous*

Congrats on the babies! Ive always wanted scovies!

 

[De]

Do you use a bator? and if you did you put a wet cloth on your eggs.....

 

[melissa508]

I used a little giant still air (100.5-101 degrees) & spritzed the eggs a couple of times a day. Sometimes i put wet paper towels on them, sometimes I dont. I have good luck with hatching waterfowl & terrible luck with chicken eggs lol

 

[lauralou]

Congrats on the hatch!

I can help you a little bit on the genetics of your babies. I have a chocolate hen, so I know something of the chocolate gene. It is sex linked. So if you have a possibility of the father being a chocolate, then my guess would be that the 2 ducklings pictured came from the white hen and the chocolate drake, and that they are both female. And that they will be chocolate pied.

But that's only a guess, because I don't know what a magpie is.

As for other colors from the mating, the chocolate drake on the white hen should produce white males (carrying chocolate, but not showing it). I think. The genetics of white are pretty mysterious to me. I understand that it is incompletely dominant, which is how pieds are made. A white bird with color showing through.

If the father were the black pied and the mother the white hen, I would think that half of the babies would be white, and half black pied, regardless of sex.

If I'm wrong, somebody please correct me!

 

[melissa508]

Thanks- the magpie colored muscovy is marked just like a magpie duck.

I wanted the really nice ripples & self blues..but just cant get my hands on any..i will keep trying though

 

[MDC]

If you go to the map listed in my sig. & check out NY, there is a farm listed, B Bar Farm that will have both varieties although I do not know if he ships. He bought quite a few of my birds last year.

The magpie is a pattern, not a color, so that won't affect the color of the birds.

Chocolate is sex-linked in certain circumstances but not with white. I actually have a really neat sex-linked hatch that came off the nest today. 12 ducklings, 6 chocolates & 6 blacks that carry chocolate and there are both wild-type and atipico, or 'dusky' ducklings in both colors.

Depending on what colors your magpie duck was, with the black pied drake you'd possibly get black pied and pure white ducklings w/ the white duck and chocolate pied and pure whites with the chocolate drake.

Chocolate is sex-linked only when a chocolate drake is used. It can be broken down some like this... (the left 'chocolate' bird is the drake in the following)

chocolate X chocolate = 100% chocolate
chocolate X black = black drakelets that carry chocolate and chocolate ducklets.
chocolate X blue = black and blue males that carry chocolate, chocolate and lilac females.
chocolate X self-blue = black males that carry chocolate and pastel and chocolate females that carry
pastel.
chocolate X lilac = 50% chocolate ducklings, 50% lilac ducklings.

A duck (hen) is either chocolate or not - females cannot carry chocolate.

This web page has more info: http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics

Hope this helps...

 

[MDC]

This isn't the best photo but I was quickly losing daylight.

 

[lauralou]

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Oh, how I wish I had known that! I have 12 eggs under broody chickens that are from a pair of chocolate ripples that I sold. I would have loved to have sent them somewhere rather than setting them myself. I have a lavender (self blue) drake coming next week from a great breeder, and I want his babies. So I'll be selling most or all of these ducklings locally. Assuming that they hatch, of course. (Never count your ducks until they hatch

)

My chocolate hen is also setting eggs from the chocolate ripple drake. I may keep some of those, at least until they feather out. There is a possibility that she is carrying the ripple gene, and if so, I'll get half chocolates and half chocolate ripples. It's sort of a genetic experiment... I like the ripples, too. But the dark ripples are more appealing to me. If my hen is carrying the ripple gene, I'll be so excited and just expect to get ripples from the bloodline that I want eventually. If not, she's a really nice, heavy hen, and I could keep a few of her little ripple carriers...

Sounds like we have similar taste!