Call duck color genetics fawn/white

[Steelrainacres]

Good evening fellows duck lovers.
I’m very new to learning the color genetics for call ducks. I’ve followed all of the color breeding charts and calculators but can’t find an answer.
I have a fawn call hen and I’d love to produce more this spring. My problem is I can’t find any information on how to breed fawn color ?
From what I know I believe my chances are a little higher to produce since I already have a hen however, what color Drake should I match her with ?

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Pyxis is the expert to ask. I am just fascinated with genetics. But, if I understand it correctly, fawn is blue fawn. Blue ducks have one blue gene (two make silver like the duck in my avatar although she also has black). A wild type or gray call drake then should give you about half gray ducklings and half blue fawn ducklings. If you found a blue fawn drake, your probability is 1/4 gray, 1/2 blue fawn, 1/4 pastel. A pastel drake should give you half pastel and half fawn. Here is Pyxis' article about it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/mallard-derived-duck-color-genetics-basics.74277/

 

[Steelrainacres]

Pyxis is the expert to ask. I am just fascinated with genetics. But, if I understand it correctly, fawn is blue fawn. Blue ducks have one blue gene (two make silver like the duck in my avatar although she also has black). A wild type or gray call drake then should give you about half gray ducklings and half blue fawn ducklings. If you found a blue fawn drake, your probability is 1/4 gray, 1/2 blue fawn, 1/4 pastel. A pastel drake should give you half pastel and half fawn. Here is Pyxis' article about it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/mallard-derived-duck-color-genetics-basics.74277/

Pyxis is the expert to ask. I am just fascinated with genetics. But, if I understand it correctly, fawn is blue fawn. Blue ducks have one blue gene (two make silver like the duck in my avatar although she also has black). A wild type or gray call drake then should give you about half gray ducklings and half blue fawn ducklings. If you found a blue fawn drake, your probability is 1/4 gray, 1/2 blue fawn, 1/4 pastel. A pastel drake should give you half pastel and half fawn. Here is Pyxis' article about it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/mallard-derived-duck-color-genetics-basics.74277/

The duck in your photo is BEAUTIFUL!
So if I understand you correctly then if I breed my fawn white hen with a pastel Drake I’ll have a 50% chance at getting fawn ducklings?
Also is it blue to blue breeding to have a chance to breed silver ?
I assumed if I had a blue to white I had a small chance but the deeper I go it looks like I’d get a better chance at silver if I breed blue to blue?

 

[cheezenkwackers]

The duck in your photo is BEAUTIFUL!
So if I understand you correctly then if I breed my fawn white hen with a pastel Drake I’ll have a 50% chance at getting fawn ducklings?
Also is it blue to blue breeding to have a chance to breed silver ?
I assumed if I had a blue to white I had a small chance but the deeper I go it looks like I’d get a better chance at silver if I breed blue to blue?

So I understand genetics pretty well but not all the call colors. If you look at the article, I think a blue fawn has all the genes to look like a mallard (gray) with the edition of one blue allele. Yes, blue to blue would give you the chance for silver, but I am not sure what you mean by blue. When I say blue, I mean like a blue Swedish which is one blue allele but they also carry black. My duck is silver. She has two blue alleles and she also has two black alleles. She is does not carry white even though she has all white feathers. White is a different recessive allele. It takes two white alleles to make a duck white like a Pekin. White prevents any color from being put in the feathers so white ducks can have any other colors hidden. A white duck crossed to a blue would depend what is hidden under the white. So yes, you have a better chance at pastel (what I think of as a silver fawn) if you cross with another blue fawn. If you want silver, you would want a blue drake. You would have an even greater chance for a duckling to get two blue alleles if the drake was a pastel or silver.

 

[Painted Calls]

Can you post pics of your ducks? That may help as well.