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[Coyspoultry]

Try and improve the shape of the ducks. You want them to be as close as possible to your white duck. You need to build the house before you can paint it. Then pick the best shaped offspring and try to improve their colour then. You don't want the brown leakage like you have in the parents. So you want to breed away from that.

 

[rubi fussell]

You need to build the house before you can paint it.

What do U mean by that

 

[Coyspoultry]

What do U mean by that

It's an old saying that breeders use which basically means, the type and shape of the bird should be your first priority when breeding to the standard of perfection. After the type is correct then you can work on colour. When many breeders start out they make the common mistake of trying to improve the colour of the bird first. This is because its the easiest to see what to improve on.

(I've made this mistake myself, and it took a good few years to fix it. I was working with pekin bantams and I had the cuckoo colour very good. But their type was very poor. So the only way to improve my birds was to use a black rooster to improve their shape. This messed up the colouring. So i had to start again with the cuckoo pattern. But this time I had better quaility birds.)