Color choices

[Mshafer01]

This is for the color gene junkies. I have tried that link that should tell me but can't make heads or tails of it much less the color . I want the most color variation in my flock but I need a drake so I dont have to order ducks everytime I want ducklings. I already have 1 white duclair, 1 black runner, 1 fawn and white runner and 2 welsh harlequin ducks. In the spring I am getting a black and white ancona, saxony, silver appleyard and splash swedish. I have the space to separate a drake with the ducks I want offspring from so I dont have to guess which eggs to keep to hatch. I need a suggestion on a breed for the drake for the most color variety or patterns without ending up with all the same looking ducks. Alright and GO!!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

A golden Welsh Harlequin or Snowy Mallard. Of the ducks you mentioned many have dominant traits. The Harlequin gene is recessive. So, a drake with a Harlequin gene will only make Harlequin ducklings with your Welsh females. Most of the other ducks will make ducklings which look like themselves with a Welsh drake. If that drake is also golden he would produce sex-linked ducklings with all the ducks except the fawn and white runner. The girls will be brownish and the boys blackish.

 

[BoundlessLove]

A Blue Swedish