Call Duck Breeding?

[Flario12]

Ive been hatching my call ducks eggs for a few years but i wanted to get more into it so i had a few questions about more i depth stuff. I know a good amount about the genetic side of it. Before i ask anything these are the calls i have.

my oldest guy is what looks like a black bibbed with a green head. I have 7 calls total and hes the father of 3 of them.

his son who honestly i have no idea what he is he looks like a magpie but im not sure. He had a brother who looked just like him but with a tiny bit more white. This one and the next ones mother was another black bibbed (3rd picture) but she was sadly taken by a raccoon

Shes the sister of the duck in the secong picture. Im assuming that since my oldest male fathered a clutch from 2 different black bibbed hens amd there was 1 white in both he is a carrier for the recessive white gene? All 3 black bibbed lived together at one point and may be related but im not sure.

she (on top) is my blue bibbed but i dont think shes pure since she has a very small amount if brown on her. My black bibbed has some brown too.

I also have a pair of pastels (both full grown now this picture was when they were 3 months old) they seem to be pure bred and i believe the man i bought them from bred them pure.

i also have a (i think) snowy. In tbis picture shes still a baby but now she looks just like a snowy hen. Shes my third baby from that bibbed drake. Im wondering if i breed my black bibbed male with my blue bibbed female if ill get only bibbed babies and some whites or if ill get other breeds too. And im curious what’ll happen if my pastel drake breeds my snowy hen. I know your supposed to breed similar color patterns together because you’ll just get weird mixes but the people who buy my ducklings just want pets and like the crazy colors as do i. Usually i have everyone together but during the mating season i have to separate the snowy and pastels in a pen because they’re younger and smaller and my older guys can be a little rough with the younger ones. I plan on breeding my pastels to see if they’re pure and/or carry the white gene.

 

[Isaac 0]

This is a question for @Pyxis

Adorable Calls!

 

[Pyxis]

Im assuming that since my oldest male fathered a clutch from 2 different black bibbed hens amd there was 1 white in both he is a carrier for the recessive white gene?

Yes, if he's producing white ducklings he must be split to white. The mother must be, too.

Im wondering if i breed my black bibbed male with my blue bibbed female if ill get only bibbed babies and some whites or if ill get other breeds too.

Depends on if they're carrying anything else. Most likely just bibbed and white since they're carrying white, but you could be surprised The breed for all of them would be Call, though. They're all one breed. You're thinking of colors, not breed.

And im curious what’ll happen if my pastel drake breeds my snowy hen.

Most likely just gray and blue fawn ducklings, all split to snowy. But if the pastel happens to be carrying snowy, you'd get snowy. And since your flock did produce a snowy, you know at least one drake and one hen are carrying it. The bibbed drake and whichever duck was her mother. That also means your bibbed drake is heterozygous for extended black - he only has one copy. Means he's also carrying e+ - the base for mallard colors.

 

[Flario12]

Thank you sm! That all helps a lot