are these brown or chocolate scovies?

[spish]

does anybody have chocolate scovies?i'd like to see some pics

i recentley bought some new scovies, from different sources and think i can make a nice breeding trio from three. i chose a mostly white male with light brown flecks, a mostly white female with light brown spots, and a mostly brown female with a white head. would they be a good combination? are they classed as brown or chocolate?

 

[Mom 2em All]

On the third page, I have pictures of my 'ducktweens'- you can see the brown feathers coming in my muscovy-cross. I was calling him chocolate. Im curious to see what the others tell you.
Nice looking ducks!

 

[spish]

oh your duckies are so cute!!

 

[coptop89]

Hi there...I'm fairly confident that the hen with the white head and chocolate body would be classified as a chocolate pied. For a muscovy to be classified as a solid color (blue, black, chocolate) there can only be so much white on it. I want to say their can be no more than 10% of white showing for it to be called a solid color. I could be wrong on that percentage though. The drake and the other hen I'm not so sure about. I have seen cream muscovies and that is was those two remind me of more than any other color.

Here's a pic of our solid chocolate drake (he's a little rough looking in this pic):

and here's our chocolate hen with babies from last fall:

Hope that helps some!!

 

[coptop89]

Oh and just to add, brown=chocolate. They are one in the same but are usually refered to as chocolate. Also I just looked at the APA recognized varieties and they only recognize muscovy in solid black, chocolate, blue and white but there are certainly a lot more cool looking colors out there, like yours. I think your trio would make some great looking offspring!!!