Call Ducks - What colour am I?

[CityChicker]

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[BoiseBubba]

I raise Call ducks and these are definitely, beyond a shadow of doubt NOT Calls, the female has completely wrong coloring for a snowy, and the drake does not have the right coloring to be a grey, and Blue Fawns and Pastels do not look anything like that

 

[BoiseBubba]

Forgot to add

They also have very long bills if they are Calls

 

[CityChicker]

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[Sweetfolly]

I think it's really amusing that all this controversy is stemming from a picture that really only shows the ducks rear ends!

I don't have anything else constructive to add - although, I would tend to agree with anything CityChicker says when it comes to color genetics! I've seen some really wonky-looking Call ducks at swaps and even on ebay egg listings, so they look like passable Call ducks to me!

Any chance of getting a better picture of the ducks front ends, donniedarko? Maybe a shot from the front, and another good shot from the side? They're very pretty whatever they are!

 

[CityChicker]

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[KateBeauchemin]

We also got 1 baby from our flock... No pic available. Mother-in-law was shocked!

It's Austrailia colored, they call it Aluetian.

We have blue fawn, white, chocolate, and a few other colors and have gotten great DIFFERENT colors...

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html

This is a calculator, you can see what drake and hen make what, the percentage of colors, etc.

If you do the calculator, switch the colors of male and female, 90% of the time they are the same.
(chocolate drake white hen), then do (white drake chocolate hen) There have been a few weirdies in ours.

A lilac, a black bibbed, and aluetian from our stock.
We know what drake and hens made what now. It's all about genetics.

Good luck!

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

sometimes it is hard to figure out what color they are....they might be a mix of 2 colors. Another example, sometimes our magpies hatch out completely white....so are they a white or a magpie. Some will argue.

 

[kswaterfowl]

I think they are probably pet quality calls without a clear bill picture, but they are trout colored (also called dark snowy, dark silver). If you will do a little research on the pattern, I think you will find it is quite common in mixed breeding pens. I've had several in my snowy mallard breeding pens, culled hard to eliminate it. The Wild Plum strain of snowys appears just like these, but on a mallard body rather than call duck.

And here is a trout/dark snowy drake. I assure you he is snowy not grey, the bleeding of claret breast onto the flank is a trait you can see right off.

This drake was test mated with several different snowy hens and never produced on grey offspring. I also got some pure white offspring from him.

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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