blue and black genes!

DUCKGIRL89

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So I might be getting a blue ancona drake for my black hen. So if/when I hatch eggs from this pair I will get both blue and black ducklings... But will it be sex linked? Will all the ducklets be blue and draklets black? Thanks in advance!
 
I'm not great at genetics but I don't believe using a blue drake over a black hen will result in sex linkeds.
 
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Nope, that only works with chocolate since chocolate is sexlinked recessive. Blue is incompletely dominant same as it is in chickens so you will get blue and black of both sexes.
 
The Buff dilution gene is sex linked recessive as well. Out of the two sex linked recessive genes (Chocolate/Brown dilution and Buff dilution), Buff dilution is recessive to Chocolate/Brown dilution.
 
I thought you said your're "Ancona" hen was a Magpie??

I'm soooo confused!
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I "thought" she was. But the markings on her bill and feet look much more ancona like. She just has bad markings.

Thanks guys!
 

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