creating a new breed!(PICS ADDED)

[1lpoock]

She wasnt being rude she just didnt understand. I dont either. The ducks dont really look like any new breed at all...to me they just look like khakis

 

[Dances with Ducks]

You can have khaki colored runners (Holderread) and calls (Ashton). So this might be another new duck that has the khaki pattern but other attributes from ducks besides khaki campbells. Although when the body type is so close to the campbell and the color is exactly the same it's hard for me to imagine why they would catch on as a new breed. Unless there is some other trait that remarkably sets them aside from the campbell?
The idea of starting new breeds is exciting, as long as people were careful to not let them interbreed with other breeds under the wrong impression. For instance in this case, you wouldn't be happy to get some offspring of these hoping you would get lots of eggs and then find out they didn't lay like campbells.

City Chicker you were saying the drake looks like the dark dusky pattern, I would love it if you could tell how you identified this from the photo. I have a hard time telling dark from khaki especially in drakes. I just want to learn this because I had struggled with trying to figure this out before when I was looking for dark campbells. I mean sometimes it's just a matter of how the light hits, but is there something else?

 

[bufforp89]

The male looks like a mallard khaki cross to me. He could'nt be pure khaki, look at his beak, it's bright yellow. The female looks like a khaki to me too.

Interesting project anyways and nice looking ducks

 

[CityChicker]

DWD- It is sometimes hard to tell because Khaki and Dusky, especially in the drakes, can vary a lot in appearance. In general though, Khakis are more of a warm medium brown with less pencilling.

In this case though, the single biggest thing that made me think they were Dusky was when the OP said they were black as ducklings. Dusky ducklings appear almost black as ducklings. Khakis are usually much lighter. They can be anywhere from medium to light brown.

 

[CityChicker]

Oh, and it is very possible that both birds are different mixes if the OP has multiple ducks. Knowing what ducks they have would help a lot.

 

[roocrazy]

well how could it be khaki i dont have a khaki in my flock the father is black and white and the mother is the color of a rouen btw both parents are crosses of pekin and rouen


Well sorry for wasting all of your time im really sorry

please forgive me?

 

[eggsrcool]

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Dont worry, you weren't wasting anyone's time, you were asking a perfectly reasonable question.

Creating a new breed is an interesting project, and I think you have been doing a great job so far

eggsrcool

 

[CityChicker]

Nobody has said you have wasted their time. I think everyone is just trying to help you figure out what they are.

The only way to know with any certainty is to know all the ducks you have (and probably with pictures). Are you sure about who and what their parents are? Both the ducks in the picture you posted are built just like Campbells, not at all like Pekins or Rouens. Are you sure the parent birds are out of those breeds? Again, if you had pictures, that would help people to help you to determine for sure what they are. If they were black as ducklings, they almost certainly are not Khakis.

They are very pretty. If you want to try to develop a new breed, I think you should go for it. You have to expect though that people will ask you how you created the breed and what sets it apart from existing breeds.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Yes, even if it's not a breed that catches on it's so interesting to see what you can come up with and learn the types of genetic patterns in mallard derived ducks. The parents you describe are so different from this generation, but they demonstrate how certain patterns are built into the duck genetics. We will be waiting to hear how true they breed. Do you have others of this generation? Have you read Colour Breeding in Domestic Ducks by Mike and Chis Ashton? It's full of information that explains understand the different genetics of the color patterns and how they interact.

 

[roocrazy]

CityChicker,The only way to know with any certainty is to know all the ducks you have (and probably with pictures). Are you sure about who and what their parents are? Both the ducks in the picture you posted are built just like Campbells, not at all like Pekins or Rouens. Are you sure the parent birds are out of those breeds? Again, if you had pictures, that would help people to help you to determine for sure what they are. If they were black as ducklings, they almost certainly are not Khakis.

im am 100 percent positive because i only had 2 ducks at the time


do you know and duck genetics calculaterb