Blue Butterscotch Call Ducks

[Old McRonald]

You've got some top of the line stock then!

Thanks! Dennis lets me bend his ear quite a bit.

 

[Pyxis]

You won't get blue butterscotch - butterscotch is silver light phase mallard. So a blue butterscotch is blue light phase silver. A gray doesn't have the light phase genes needed. What you'll get from that cross are blue fawns, all carrying light phase.

 

[Old McRonald]

You won't get blue butterscotch - butterscotch is silver light phase mallard. So a blue butterscotch is blue light phase silver. A gray doesn't have the light phase genes needed. What you'll get from that cross are blue fawns, all carrying light phase.

Thanks for chiming in and helping clear that up, the more I was looking at the calculator I realized I was going to be getting blue fawns and they are not the same as blue butterscotch. Bottom line I need a butterscotch drake as I don't really want to waste this season only getting blue fawns out of them. Even if I saved the best blue fawn drake from each hen and crossed back to the other hen next year it looks like there is no road to butterscotch offspring without a butterscotch drake.

 

[TomCahalan]

Thanks for chiming in and helping clear that up, the more I was looking at the calculator I realized I was going to be getting blue fawns and they are not the same as blue butterscotch. Bottom line I need a butterscotch drake as I don't really want to waste this season only getting blue fawns out of them. Even if I saved the best blue fawn drake from each hen and crossed back to the other hen next year it looks like there is no road to butterscotch offspring without a butterscotch drake.

The calculator shows that you'll get 25% butterscotch in the second generation. It calls it "apricot light mallard (Light Phase)".

 

[Old McRonald]

The calculator shows that you'll get 25% butterscotch in the second generation. It calls it "apricot light mallard (Light Phase)".

You're right, I wasn't following through with it right by keeping the same female.