Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[JadeComputerGal]

Here's my babies this a.m. right after i cleaned their box, they are so cute, i especially love this little pied fellow, i'm hoping it's a fellow because i have 2 black bibbed wives for him, and curious to see what i'd get crossing pied and bibbed call ducks, maybe a magpie?

That depends a lot on what's in their genetic background, but the short answer is that it should result in at least some magpies if they produce enough eggs with embryos that hatch.

 

[duckmeister]

That depends a lot on what's in their genetic background, but the short answer is that it should result in at least some magpies if they produce enough eggs with embryos that hatch.

Oh that 's so exciting, i can't wait till next spring! Thankyou Jadecomputergal.

 

[duckmeister]

Here's one of my bibbed hens who are in my avatar photo from a couple months ago. This is the first time she's ever been handled, i thought she was black bibbed, but she's not entirely, she has mallard penciling on her underside and under her tail. Her mama is a Holderread's gray call hen and her daddy a Holderread's white call drake. Will be intersting to see what she and her little sister produce with the pied

next year.

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Here's one of my bibbed hens who are in my avatar photo from a couple months ago. This is the first time she's ever been handled, i thought she was black bibbed, but she's not entirely, she has mallard penciling on her underside and under her tail. Her mama is a Holderread's gray call hen and her daddy a Holderread's white call drake. Will be intersting to see what she and her little sister produce with the pied

next year.

That kind of changes things. Not sure you're going to get a magpie from that but, hey, it's all fun to try!

 

[minihorse927]

Here's my babies this a.m. right after i cleaned their box, they are so cute, i especially love this little pied fellow, i'm hoping it's a fellow because i have 2 black bibbed wives for him, and curious to see what i'd get crossing pied and bibbed call ducks, maybe a magpie?

more pied and bibbed most likely. Magpie is very hard to breed for

 

[duckmeister]

more pied and bibbed most likely. Magpie is very hard to breed for

Rats! Maybe i'll sell a nice trio, pied drake and two bibbed hens.

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Rats! Maybe i'll sell a nice trio, pied drake and two bibbed hens.

LOL. All ducks are good ducks, and I agree with Mini. Knowing now what you bred from and that they're from Holderreads, I'm not clear on how you got what you got to begin with. If you bred from a "pure" white drake and a "pure" gray duck, I'd expect the wild pattern in the first generation. Looking at your pics close up, I don't think I'd call that a black bibbed. It looks like wild pattern with an imperfection in the pattern that came from breeding with a white. Are you positive about who the parents are?

BTW, I'm not by any means an expert on duck genetics. I'm pretty early into it as far as where other people might be, and there are a ton of things to know. Mini is probably better with this than I am.

 

[minihorse927]

Here's one of my bibbed hens who are in my avatar photo from a couple months ago. This is the first time she's ever been handled, i thought she was black bibbed, but she's not entirely, she has mallard penciling on her underside and under her tail. Her mama is a Holderread's gray call hen and her daddy a Holderread's white call drake. Will be intersting to see what she and her little sister produce with the pied next year.

looks like a black with a single copy of extended black. Single copy blacks tend to leak the pencilling on the breast and underside.

 

[AmandaVirginia]

As if my Palmer and little Cali baby weren't cute enough, now my Palmer has 9 more ducklings to be the most precious puppy in the whole wide world with! They were born late last night and once they are all fluffed up, we will be playing the color guessing game again! (;

 

[Lacrystol]

All my ducks do that. I think that proves it's the one I lost.

I'm telling you, I already confirmed, HE's NOT lost anymore. I have him, he so cute, I watched him for about 20 minutes, he's just jumping in and out. OMG, I have never seen a little baby duck, jump and this little guy is constantly doing it and is very good at it.. LOL