Breeding two mutations.

[Houndhunter77]

"Incomplete dominance is a form of intermediate inheritance in which one allele for a specific trait is not completely expressed over its paired allele. This results in a third phenotype in which the expressed physical trait is a combination of the phenotypes of both alleles."

So the theory would be, any duck with one copy of E and one copy of e+ would be neither, but rather some kind of in-between color. Like the blue dilution gene, which is incompletely dominant, making ducks blue with one copy and silver with two.

I can do a breeding next year to see if that's true I have ducks I know are homozygous for E and e+. Crossing them should then have offspring which are Ee+, and then I can see what color they end up.

They both are starting to get a dark green shade to their heads. They looks so cool. I wish i had a better camera. The pictures dont do them justice.

 

[Pyxis]

They both are starting to get a dark green shade to their heads. They looks so cool. I wish i had a better camera. The pictures dont do them justice.

Out of curiosity, do you have any pictures of your female ducks?

 

[Houndhunter77]

 

[Houndhunter77]

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This is a better pic. Its the size of a call duck. And the other one is probably a third bigger than this one.

 

[Houndhunter77]

I will post some pics of the females tomorrow.

 

[Pyxis]

This is a better pic. Its the size of a call duck. And the other one is probably a third bigger than this one.

Sounds like the Call drake is probably the father then, if they're that small and fully grown. I'd love to see pictures of the Call male and the females when you can

 

[Houndhunter77]

These are my females. I have two more just like them.

 

[Houndhunter77]

And he looked just like the drake in the picture. Almost perfectly. Thats why i enjoy this thread so much because i just have no idea. And the female i took the eggs from had a wicked crush on him. She followed him everywhere. I hatched 12 eggs from that batch. I watched where she was laying and when she had a pile i grabbed them a threw them in the bator. And two of those came out like that. I will post a pic next of what the others look like.

 

[Houndhunter77]

These are the other ducks from those eggs. So weird

 

[Senna95]

I see eye stripes on one of your females, and the rest (of the brown ones) are dusky, which means that your male had to be a carrier. It is pretty normal for breeders to breed recessive genes into their flock in order to expand their gene pool and color options.

What about the male on the far left in the group picture? Is he from the same batch, or is he the father? He looks like a ducky to me as well, since I see no neck ring on him.