Crest Gene in ducks not Homozygous Lethal?

[JacinLarkwell]

Breed is Duck, either mallard or muscovy. Selected traits such as color, size etc are just varieties.

That's only in turkeys. The APA separates them into mallard derived and muscovy for species and then different breeds for the mallard derived. If muscovy and Mallards were just different breeds, they wouldn't make sterile offspring when crossed

 

[TwoCrows]

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[ruthhope]

Lots of arguing in this thread, I cleaned up several recent posts.

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Thank you.

I was just offered this thread under a thread that I responded to about crested duck genetics. There is still misinformation above but, because of your efforts, no unpleasantness.