Does the drake carry

[Pekin747]

Do muscovy drakes carry a dominant gene which makes the young the same colour as him rather than the duck?

 

[Kessel23]

Do muscovy drakes carry a dominant gene which makes the young the same colour as him rather than the duck?

Like sex linked ducklings?

 

[Kessel23]

Like sex linked ducklings?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/breeding-for-sex-linked-ducklings.74511/\
Here is an article about sex linked ducks.

 

[Pekin747]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/breeding-for-sex-linked-ducklings.74511/\
Here is an article about sex linked ducks.

No like if a drake carries white and black gene and a white gene and the duck Carries black and white and brown and white Gene's will the drakes Gene's be more dominant and end up with some white muscovys?

 

[Table4Six]

No like if a drake carries white and black gene and a white gene and the duck Carries black and white and brown and white Gene's will the drakes Gene's be more dominant and end up with some white muscovys?

If both the drake and the hen carry the recessive white gene, yes, it is possible to end up with white offspring. However, from my experience, the majority of birds hatched from two birds who both carry the dominant black gene will show the dominant color.

 

[Kessel23]

No like if a drake carries white and black gene and a white gene and the duck Carries black and white and brown and white Gene's will the drakes Gene's be more dominant and end up with some white muscovys?

Yeah, idk what you are asking. I am not good with genetics.
@Pyxis made that article I linked, she knows a lot about duck color genetics and could probably answer your question.

 

[sylviethecochin]

No like if a drake carries white and black gene and a white gene and the duck Carries black and white and brown and white Gene's will the drakes Gene's be more dominant and end up with some white muscovys?

It doesn't matter which parent carries the gene; dominant genes are still dominant.

If the genes are sexlinked, they're linked to the male chromosome. Males carry two of that, females only carry one. So chocolate, for instance. If the female is chocolate and the male is not, she'll pass the chocolate onto all of her sons, but not her daughters. If the male is chocolate, he'll pass the gene onto sons and daughters indiscriminately. (Edt: If the male is chocolate and the female is black and white, only the daughters will be black and white.)

White, in muscovies, only happens if the offspring inherit two white genes. If the parents each carry one white gene (P/p), they'll be spotted. If they breed together, some of the ducklings will inherit the white genes (p/p) from each parent, some of the ducklings will inherit both solid and white (P/p), and some of them will inherit only the solid genes (P/P).

Here is a punnet square. It is not mine:

 

[Pyxis]

No like if a drake carries white and black gene and a white gene and the duck Carries black and white and brown and white Gene's will the drakes Gene's be more dominant and end up with some white muscovys?

By 'brown' gene, I'm thinking you mean chocolate. Females cannot carry chocolate; it's sex linked and if they have a copy, they express it. Being sex linked and recessive, they will pass a copy to their male offspring, who will not express it, because it's recessive and they can get two copies of it and thus need two copies for it to show. The chocolate hen will NOT pass the chocolate gene to any of her female offspring, again because it is sex linked.

So if you bred a black pied male to a chocolate pied female, which I think is what you're asking, all the offspring would be black. Some might be pied, and some might be solid white too, but as @sylviethecochin explained, that's a totally separate gene so it's not relevant. Or maybe you mean piebald, which again is a separate gene and not relevant.

The only way you can get chocolate offspring from a chocolate female is if the male you are breeding her to is chocolate or split to chocolate.

There is also a gene called sepia, which is kind of a brownish color, but that's much rarer than chocolate and is a simple recessive with no sex linking.

 

[Pekin747]

By 'brown' gene, I'm thinking you mean chocolate. Females cannot carry chocolate; it's sex linked and if they have a copy, they express it. Being sex linked and recessive, they will pass a copy to their male offspring, who will not express it, because it's recessive and they can get two copies of it and thus need two copies for it to show. The chocolate hen will NOT pass the chocolate gene to any of her female offspring, again because it is sex linked.

So if you bred a black pied male to a chocolate pied female, which I think is what you're asking, all the offspring would be black. Some might be pied, and some might be solid white too, but as @sylviethecochin explained, that's a totally separate gene so it's not relevant. Or maybe you mean piebald, which again is a separate gene and not relevant.

The only way you can get chocolate offspring from a chocolate female is if the male you are breeding her to is chocolate or split to chocolate.

There is also a gene called sepia, which is kind of a brownish color, but that's much rarer than chocolate and is a simple recessive with no sex linking.

Ok I think I Understand
My Male is black and white but
(his father was black and white) (His mother was solid white)
The female is chocolate brown and white
Her father was a darker brown
Not sure what colour female was but think she was black and white or just white
Sidnt breed this pair this just info from the previous breeder

Ps I've multiple muscovys

 

[sylviethecochin]

Ok I think I Understand
My Male is black and white but
(his father was black and white) (His mother was solid white)
The female is chocolate brown and white
Her father was a darker brown
Not sure what colour female was but think she was black and white or just white
Sidnt breed this pair this just info from the previous breeder

Ps I've multiple muscovys

Sounds about right. And here's what their ducklings should look like, with a long explanation. (In case you're curious.)

So the male is (presumably. He could also be C/ch) Ch/Ch (black) and (P/p) spotted
The female is (ch/+) and (P/p)

As shown in the Punnet square above, 1/4 of the offspring inherit (p/p) will be solid black. 1/4 of the offspring will inherit (P/P) and be solid white. 2/4 of the offspring will inherit (P/p) and be spotted.

As for the Ch gene: Assuming the male is homozygous black (he carries two genes for black) each and every duckling will inherit a Ch from him. 4/4 of ducklings are black.

The female is ch/+. Since the female chromosome is shorter, it's missing some genes, such as the chocolate gene. If the ducklings inherit that female chromosome, they won't inherit the chocolate gene. Thus, the +. They'll be (Ch/+) and female. The males, however, will inherit the longer, chocolate-containing chromosome and be (Ch/ch.)

Which basically means that each and every duckling will carry black, but the males will be split to chocolate. So if you mate them to a black female, half of their daughters should be chocolate, and all of their male offspring will be black.