Barred Muscovy babies

[dotporter]

It’s interesting and exciting what comes out of hatching I had 3 solid white Muscovy females and never got a white duckling now I know why is it only white to white produce them?

White is a partial dominant gene, so bred to any other color makes pied birds.

 

[casportpony]

White is a partial dominant gene, so bred to any other color makes pied birds.

This is where it gets confusing to me because in peafowl white never produces pied unless bred to a pied.

 

[Pyxis]

This is where it gets confusing to me because in peafowl white never produces pied unless bred to a pied.

And in mallard derived ducks, it's actually recessive. Needs two copies to express, and all ducklings from two white parents are white.

 

[dotporter]

This is where it gets confusing to me because in peafowl white never produces pied unless bred to a pied.

So I shouldn't get into how homozygous white and heterozygous white are both white... but heterozygous have a black cap while homozygous have no cap. But, if you breed a pied heterozygous white duck to another pied heterozygous white duck some of the babies can come out pure white with a colored cap which matches the parents color rather than having the black cap.... But, if it's heterozygous white with pied parents, shouldn't the danged thing just be pied?

 

[casportpony]

So I shouldn't get into how homozygous white and heterozygous white are both white... but heterozygous have a black cap while homozygous have no cap. But, if you breed a pied heterozygous white duck to another pied heterozygous white duck some of the babies can come out pure white with a colored cap which matches the parents color rather than having the black cap.... But, if it's heterozygous white with pied parents, shouldn't the danged thing just be pied?

My head is spinning, lol.

 

[casportpony]

heterozygous have a black cap while homozygous have no cap.

How about one that hatched with a gray cap, but the cap went away. What is he?

 

[Miss Lydia]

A magician

 

[dotporter]

How about one that hatched with a gray cap, but the cap went away. What is he?

heterozygous white with blue parentage. It's normal for the cap to molt out. Usually by eight months old, but I've seen some keep the cap for almost two years.

 

[dotporter]

A magician

 

[casportpony]

More interesting info - since you don't have any female chocolates, all your chocolate babies are female.

@WallingFarm, that's something else you can possibly get more money for.