Blue Swedish?

[NoahSully]

So I wanted to wait until they had their feathers in until I asked this.

Are both of these ducks Blue Swedish? Or is the white one a mix?

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

So I wanted to wait until they had their feathers in until I asked this.

Are both of these ducks Blue Swedish? Or is the white one a mix?
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Not sure, they don’t really have a bib.

 

[sylviethecochin]

They both look a bit badly marked. The "white" one is not white, she is silver. Blue ducks have a black gene and a silver gene (B/b) Is the other one black? If so, if you breed them together, you will get blue ducklings.

It works the same way that the blue in chickens does (except that in chickens, it's called Splash):

Here are my crossbred juveniles from this year. The drake (back, green bill) looks how a correct Blue Swedish should look:

EDT: Where did you get them? I'm actually more inclined to think that the silver is pure, but they could just be badly marked purebreeds.

EDT2: Actually, looking at them, the silver may be a drake. Ducks aren't usually that grey, in my experience. How old are they?

 

[NoahSully]

Both of them are drakes. I got them from my Tractor Supply store. They said they were Blue Swedish. They are 6.4 weeks old

 

[NoahSully]

I was just wondering because every pic of a blue swedish on Google look just like yours and my silver one doesnt look like that..

 

[sylviethecochin]

I don't have any pictures of my own silver swedish duck or drake, but here's one from Google:

My boy doesn't have any brown in his feathers, and he's somewhat longer and slimmer than this one, with a slightly bluer tint, but he's pretty similar.

 

[CrystaBub]

@NoahSully I’d love to see more pics As they age. Your silver duck - could it be a welsh harlequin?

 

[Miss Lydia]

So I wanted to wait until they had their feathers in until I asked this.

Are both of these ducks Blue Swedish? Or is the white one a mix?
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They are gorgeous love that silver. don't see them often.

 

[sallysinnamon]

It's a blue swede and a silver swede or silver splash as they're called..
Swedes can be black, blue, brown, and silver. Brown isn't always recognized.. and just because they don't have bibs doesn't mean they are not purebred swedes. they would not be show quality based on the fact that the show quality birds have the perfect white bib..but they are still swedes!