Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[casportpony]

Interestingly, recently I have seen a new variation of chocolates in my flock.

-Kathy

 

[minihorse927]

Wow, that is the best explanation ever! Another question... Does the dusky gene exist in breed other than Muscovy?

-Kathy

from what I understand yes it does. I had a "dusky grey" call hen here for a while. instead of having normal penciling on her chest and the eye stripes she had a chocolate chest and no striping. I was told that was the dusky gene at work on a grey.

 

[minihorse927]

Interestingly, recently I have seen a new variation of chocolates in my flock.

-Kathy

pictures?

 

[Lacrystol]

After the new pics I'd say blue pied. Silver would be much lighter in color as its genetically a double dose blue.

If the flock consists of chocolate and blue only you could get chocolate, black, blue, silver, or lavender. Of course chances of this all depends on whether there are chocolate females or chocolate males or both.

but you can see those light streaks if you zoom in...At first I didn't noticed then when i zoomed in I thought HUM, what? OK... I compaired her head with my blue pied head and they are ALMOST identical except her's is lighter with like whitishgrey streaks..

 

[casportpony]

So excited... I think I might have a dusky chocolate! In the dusky blacks I noticed that the penciling was brown, not white and now I'm seeing the same thing in a few of the chocolates. Hard for me to explain, so I will try to get some pictures.

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

Now in chickens if you add blue into the mix you can get a mauve or in ducks it's called a lavender. In chickens you can get mauve splash and in ducks this is called lilac.

SO your telling my Lavender Silkie Rooster has chocolate in it??

 

[minihorse927]

If you add blue to the mix then here are your color possibilities. Exchange the word mauve (used in chickens) for the word lavender in ducks. A mauve splash in chickens would be a lilac in ducks.

Chocolate male x blue female = 25% mauve female, 25% chocolate female, 25% blue males carrying chocolate, 25% black males carrying chocolate

Chocolate male x mauve female = 25%mauve female, 25%chocolate female, 25% mauve male, 25% chocolate male.

Mauve male x chocolate female = (same as previous cross)

Mauve male x mauve female = 12.5% chocolate male, 12.5% chocolate female, 25% mauve males, 25% mauve females, 12.5 mauve splash males, 12.5 % mauve splash females.

Mauve splash male x mauve splash female = 50% mauve splash males, 50% mauve splash females

Mauve splash male x chocolate female = 50% mauve males, 50% mauve females

chocolate male x mauve splash female = (same as previous cross)

mauve male x black female = 25% black males,25% blue males(all males carry chocolate in this cross), 25% chocolate female, 25% mauve female

 

[minihorse927]

SO your telling my Lavender Silkie Rooster has chocolate in it??

No, lavender is the term used in ducks for chocolate and blue together. Lavender is chickens is a completely different gene and is a recessive that requires 2 copies of it no matter what in order to make a bird lavender.

 

[minihorse927]

Every silver duck I have ever seen has been almost completely yellow or white at hatch. They may have faint markings on silver but I have never seen one that dark. I see a lot of silver in ancona flocks.

but you can see those light streaks if you zoom in...At first I didn't noticed then when i zoomed in I thought HUM, what? OK... I compaired her head with my blue pied head and they are ALMOST identical except her's is lighter with like whitishgrey streaks..

 

[minihorse927]

Now would you like me to really confuse the heck out of you and throw in the genetics for black and blue males carrying chocolate over various colors of females? These get interesting.