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This January, I put together a pair of Dutch Hookbills that I thought were both snowies in preparation for the breeding season. They were colored like a pair of snowy call ducks I have, which look pretty much like all the other snowies at the shows I went to before the pandemic.
I hatched 8 eggs from them, expecting to see eight snowies. I was surprised to see only four that looked light-colored, like snowies; two that I was told were probably Aleutians, dark with a little light fuzz; and two that I was told were probably Mallards/Grays, which did look similar in color to my runner duck gray ducklings, maybe a bit more checkered.
Then I found the color calculator (https://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html) and tried several combinations. The only combination I found that started with similar-looking parents and ended up with at least three different colors was an Appleyard Spot Male
(MRM+ lilih e+e+ bl+bl+ C+C+ B+B+ r+r+ D+D+ Bu+Bu+)
and a Snowy Female
(M+M+ lihlih e+e+ bl+bl+ C+C+ B+B+ r+r+ D+- Bu+-),
So, here are the ducklings at about three months.
The ones with eye stripes grew up from the checkered mallard ducklings, the very dark ones were from the dark "Aleutian" ducklings, and the rest are all from the yellow ducklings with black tipped fuzz.
I was hoping to give a pair of snowies to a friend in September, but now I am not sure if any of them will be snowies, at all! Will I have to wait until they are grown before I can tell what color they are?
And, if none of these ducklings are snowies, do I have a path to get snowies out of these ducks?
Thank you for your help!
I hatched 8 eggs from them, expecting to see eight snowies. I was surprised to see only four that looked light-colored, like snowies; two that I was told were probably Aleutians, dark with a little light fuzz; and two that I was told were probably Mallards/Grays, which did look similar in color to my runner duck gray ducklings, maybe a bit more checkered.
Then I found the color calculator (https://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html) and tried several combinations. The only combination I found that started with similar-looking parents and ended up with at least three different colors was an Appleyard Spot Male
(MRM+ lilih e+e+ bl+bl+ C+C+ B+B+ r+r+ D+D+ Bu+Bu+)
and a Snowy Female
(M+M+ lihlih e+e+ bl+bl+ C+C+ B+B+ r+r+ D+- Bu+-),
So, here are the ducklings at about three months.
The ones with eye stripes grew up from the checkered mallard ducklings, the very dark ones were from the dark "Aleutian" ducklings, and the rest are all from the yellow ducklings with black tipped fuzz.
I was hoping to give a pair of snowies to a friend in September, but now I am not sure if any of them will be snowies, at all! Will I have to wait until they are grown before I can tell what color they are?
And, if none of these ducklings are snowies, do I have a path to get snowies out of these ducks?
Thank you for your help!