Color pattern on muscovy?

[Miss Lydia]

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Thanks for info, and what a beautiful duckling. can i ask another Q, what does self mean?

 

[Bleenie]

Self is when there are no other colors in the feathers. Every feather is solid without lacing. Sometimes it can be hard to tell Self Blues from Silvers unless you know what to look for, they can be hard to photograph too.

I have 2 little Self Blue guys right now & a couple Silvers.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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I know we're probably getting into a place i know nothing about but I am curious as to how all these colors came about? looking at the wild how did blue and silvers come into play in Muscovy colors, browns, whites? they couldn't have used another breed of duck right? this is probably a dumb question and sorry if you think so. most of my Muscovies came from people dumping them into the river or just didn't want them anymore, so you can imagine how surprised I was when i came on this thread and saw all the different colors there was.

although I did have a chocolate hatch one time from my ducks and none had chocolate on their feathers.