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

 

[Mshafer01]

I think a mallard would be too small for a saxony or an appleyard

 

[Lilysquared]

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.

Wow you seem very good with color genetics. Any idea what a grey call x khaki Campbell mix or a grey call x magpie mix would look like?

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Wow you seem very good with color genetics. Any idea what a grey call x khaki Campbell mix or a grey call x magpie mix would look like?

Sure, I love genetics, but I need to know more about your mixes. Do you know what they are mixed with? Was the Khaki a hen or drake? Photos would help too.

 

[Lilysquared]

Sorry that was confusing on my part.
I had a grey call drake from Metzer that unexpectedly passed yesterday (hawk) and I’m thinking of trying to incubate and hatch some eggs from my ladies if they’re fertile, in his honor.

I have a khaki Campbell hen and a magpie hen, both from Metzer. Wasn’t sure if there was any way to predict what their offspring might look like. Would they be genetic monstrosities?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sorry that was confusing on my part.
I had a grey call drake from Metzer that unexpectedly passed yesterday (hawk) and I’m thinking of trying to incubate and hatch some eggs from my ladies if they’re fertile, in his honor.

I have a khaki Campbell hen and a magpie hen, both from Metzer. Wasn’t sure if there was any way to predict what their offspring might look like. Would they be genetic monstrosities?

Sorry for your loss.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Sorry that was confusing on my part.
I had a grey call drake from Metzer that unexpectedly passed yesterday (hawk) and I’m thinking of trying to incubate and hatch some eggs from my ladies if they’re fertile, in his honor.

I have a khaki Campbell hen and a magpie hen, both from Metzer. Wasn’t sure if there was any way to predict what their offspring might look like. Would they be genetic monstrosities?

Ha ha, no they would not be monstrosities, I’m sure they would be adorable. The Khaki hen’s babies would be gray and look similar to a Mallard. The Magpie hen’s babies would be colored like her.