Ancona Question

[duck&chickencrazy]

Is it possible to get a lavender and white colored duckling if the father is black and white and the mother is black and white or tri colored?

 

[nissa_loves_cats]

I'm not sure, but if the parents have the lavender gene (recessive) you might be able to get some lavender ducklings.

In 'Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks' it doesn't mention lavender genes in Mallard-derived ducks, but in Muscovy ducks, lavender is the result of a duckling getting the recessive lavender gene from each parent. If a duck has only one lavender gene, it won't look lavender, but if it mates with another duck with one lavender gene, there is a one-in-four chance of a lavender duckling.

I would imagine that the gene is probably the same in Anconas, so if you have the good luck of having some with the recessive lavender gene, you may have lavender ducklings.

 

[CityChicker]

There is no Lavender gene in the Mallard-derived breeds. Lavender is the combination of Extended Black, sex-linked Brown dilution, and double Blue dilution. If the two parents are Black and White, no you won't get Lavender. Blue is incompletely dominant, so if one of the birds has even a single dose of Blue, you will see it and you need both of them to have it to get Lavender. If one is tri-color in that it is heterozygous for Blue and for Extended Black, you could get a very small percentage of Blue and White, but not Lavender.

 

[duck&chickencrazy]

Ok thankyou!!!