Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[miohippus]

Could someone tell me what color my hen is?

I think my drake is a blue bibbed but not sure

 

[buff goose guy]

looks like a blue aztec or a white mixed with blue aztec.

 

[learycow]

Could someone tell me what color my hen is?

I think my drake is a blue bibbed but not sure

She looks like a silver (dark bill, light but not quite white colored body)

 

[miohippus]

She looks like a silver (dark bill, light but not quite white colored body)

She has a few more speckles on her chest and yellow feet doses that sound right?

 

[minihorse927]

Could someone tell me what color my hen is?

I think my drake is a blue bibbed but not sure

silver

 

[minihorse927]

@RavynFallen, care to share some pics of the silver girls you got

 

[Ravynscroft]

@RavynFallen, care to share some pics of the silver girls you got

Would I?

Sure thing...

Could someone tell me what color my hen is?

I think my drake is a blue bibbed but not sure

She is definitely a silver and yes, your drake is a blue bibbed... silvers can sometimes be hard to tell what pattern base they have (self, bibbed, pied, etc) but silver for sure...


Basically, silver is the same color equivalent as splash in chickens, it is 2 blue genes... some can be extremely light and washed out looking, more common when breeding silver to silver, and some can show full patterning, more common from mixed color or blue to blue breeding...

These are all silvers...

Silver drake on left, blue drake on right...

Blue drake upper right, silver duck lower left...

And this little drake is silver magpie (kinda) with lots of severe leakage...

Oh, and breeding your blue to silver will give you an avg of 50/50 blues and silvers...

 

[miohippus]

Would I?

Sure thing...
She is definitely a silver and yes, your drake is a blue bibbed... silvers can sometimes be hard to tell what pattern base they have (self, bibbed, pied, etc) but silver for sure...


Basically, silver is the same color equivalent as splash in chickens, it is 2 blue genes... some can be extremely light and washed out looking, more common when breeding silver to silver, and some can show full patterning, more common from mixed color or blue to blue breeding...









These are all silvers...


Silver drake on left, blue drake on right...


Blue drake upper right, silver duck lower left...


And this little drake is silver magpie (kinda) with lots of severe leakage...

Oh, and breeding your blue to silver will give you an avg of 50/50 blues and silvers...

Awesome Thank you everyone, so that means if my pair breed i would get more silvers?

 

[learycow]

Awesome Thank you everyone, so that means if my pair breed i would get more silvers?

Yes that's right.

@RavynFallen that last drake in your pics actually looks like a light blue with heavy rusting Very pretty!

 

[learycow]

These are both silvers also. Drake in the back is a solid silver. Hen is a bibbed silver. I also have silver ancona patterned calls (don't have any pics of them but can get some) that are much much more lightly marked. I would say yours definitely has that pied/magpie gene since she doesn't express much color