Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[Amykins]

So I am curious about the color white in ducks. Do two whites always produce white? And is the term "split to white" used in ducks?

-Kathy

Mini's right, white is kinda weird...it's either REALLY stable, or delicate as heck. For the most part two white birds will always make white, but if you get one drop of snowy in there, good luck getting pure white birds ever again! I've also seen white crosses result in anything from pied to friggin' mallard coloration. No clue why.

 

[minihorse927]

So I am curious about the color white in ducks. Do two whites always produce white? And is the term "split to white" used in ducks?

-Kathy

yes, the term split to white is used. You'll see it a lot in mandarin ducks as far as the white ause it is recessive in them. The split to white would mean they carry 1 copy of white and could produce whites bred to the correct bird.

 

[18angovem]

Mini's right, white is kinda weird...it's either REALLY stable, or delicate as heck. For the most part two white birds will always make white, but if you get one drop of snowy in there, good luck getting pure white birds ever again! I've also seen white crosses result in anything from pied to friggin' mallard coloration. No clue why.

I believe because white can be a "cover color" so there can be any color "hiding" under the white. But that might be only with white dominant...

 

[casportpony]

Split to white is a term commonly used in peafowl, and that's been my only experience with it. All of my mature peafowl are the India Blue color, and many of those are "split to white", and they express the split by showing some white flight and sometime a small white patch on their throats. Imagine my surprise when my 2012 peas that hatched from non-whites produced a couple of whites! I find this quite interesting...

So in peafowl, if one has two india blues and they produce a white, it's actually a a white india blue.

-Kathy

 

[Julie Birb]

I like art a lot! He only keeps around 100 or 200 birds and keeps trios in pretty big rabbits hutches. He also has A LOT of bantam cochins. I think that's the breed! It is kinda weird though... he keeps dogs in rabbit hutches. He told me he bought a bunch of chihahaus from this horder because he didn't like how they were being cared for so now he just keeps them in unused duck pens and lets them all out at night... Good way to keep away predators. Unless they eat the chuhahaus!

haha, let's hope not.

 

[minihorse927]

Just cause I'm a nervous wreck waiting. .. come on snowy hatch already!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Here is a good example of that:

Spalding peahen (this photo by Minxfox)


Under the white might look lite this:






-Kathy

 

[Julie Birb]

Wow, you folks are amazing with your knowledge of genetics.

 

[minihorse927]

Here is a good example of that: [COLOR=333333]Spalding peahen (this photo by Minxfox)[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Under the white might look lite this:[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]-Kathy[/COLOR]

it works the same way with ducks. That duck might be a grey, a blue, a pied, a black, etc underneath the white.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Okay, good to know!

-Kathy