Does blue in ducks (Swedish) work like blue in chickens?

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Just curious. I think a splash Swedish would be lovely.

Lisa

 

[protodon]

I'm no expert on the BBS chicken or duck genetics but I would say yes because BS ducks do come in splash, blue and black. From what I've read Blue to Blue creats 50% blue, 25% black and 25% splash. Splash x Black produces 100% blue and Black to Black only produces black. I don't don't know if that works the same in BBS chickens. I do have some purebred swedish and the crosses I have with khakis and runners have produced all of the colors mentioned. I do like splash the best though.

 

[rollyard]

From my reading (not practical) experience, extended black based Mallard derived birds that are pure for blue ie homozygous Bl/Bl can express in both silver or silver-splashed-white. The gene for blue in Mallard derived birds works much the same as that in chickens in that it is an autosomal dominant (incomplete) & dilutes eumelanin (black).

 

[Funky Feathers]

Yes, the blue gene works the same in ducks and chickens. I used to raise Crested Blue Swedish & Delaware Blue Hens.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

That's great to hear! I hatched just one egg from my blue Swedish pair last year and she is a blue.
Fianlly got all the ducks seperated back into their pens and set the first of their eggs 1/28 --- yaay for splash ducks!
I'd love to see pics of splash Swedish if anyone has any.
Thanks!

Lisa

 

[houndit]

I am not sure. When you breed black and blue Muscovies you never get splash. Only black and blue.

 

[gypsy2621]

Blue is dilute of black which means it will appear 50/50 in black / blue breedings.
now depending there can also be splash but that comes when one parent somewhere was whilte or chocolate in the back ground, in other words has to carry the split gene for splash.

I find chicken genetics just as confusing as rabbit genetics but eventually you get it in your mind and it can become simplier.
plus side is having great people on this forum who can help explain most of the confusion and questions.

 

[swheat]

In muscovies mating Blue X Black is 50/50 Blue and Black ducklings, Blue X Blue result in 50% Blue, 25% Black and 25% Silver( it produces Silver instead of splash)

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Here is Silverbelles in a semi-broody mood last summer:

And some more splashes:

 

[RAREROO]

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Yep, you have to breed blue to blue to get splash. Or Spash to blue or splash to splash. But like the others said, they are more of a solid silver color rather than having black splashes on them. I hatched a pair of Silver Swedish last year but I sold them befor I got pics, but they looked just like the ones One Acre Wonder Farm posted. I have a new blue hen growing up so hopefully I can mate her with the blue male and get more Silvers.