1st dozen parents:Where are you getting them from? What colors do they have? Are they mixed flock colors, or are the colors separated to breed true to color?
Many factors in figuring out colors...
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Duckling Diaries: the Life and Times of a Welshie Trio
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Sorry, hard to see and I got interrupted, lol... 1st set of parents, looks like a blue fawn, whites, and not sure if that is a fawn and white or not... darker ones *look* chocolate, but could be darker fawns... the 'ling pic I take it are offspring, yes? Looks like either a grey or a blue fawn, (you could get either or from blue fawns), blue bibs, maybe black bibs... hard to see in the pic, lol... and you're gonna get a hodge podge from that group of mixed colors... looks like both whites are ducks, so unless a drake had a white as a parent, it's very unlikely you'll get a white... 2nd set of parents... well, not really sure what color those are... I thought at first they might be Snowys in eclipse, but they don't quite look like that either... maybe Snowy with a light phase dusky factor? I don't know if all the offspring will look like them, or if they might throw regular Snowy, light phase, and dusky...1st dozen parents:
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LOL, i feel confused by the pictures but also have no clue,Sorry, hard to see and I got interrupted, lol...
1st set of parents, looks like a blue fawn, whites, and not sure if that is a fawn and white or not... darker ones *look* chocolate, but could be darker fawns... the 'ling pic I take it are offspring, yes? Looks like either a grey or a blue fawn, (you could get either or from blue fawns), blue bibs, maybe black bibs... hard to see in the pic, lol... and you're gonna get a hodge podge from that group of mixed colors... looks like both whites are ducks, so unless a drake had a white as a parent, it's very unlikely you'll get a white...
2nd set of parents... well, not really sure what color those are... I thought at first they might be Snowys in eclipse, but they don't quite look like that either... maybe Snowy with a light phase dusky factor? I don't know if all the offspring will look like them, or if they might throw regular Snowy, light phase, and dusky...
yes the duckling picture is babies of the first picture
the 2nd 2 i was told snowy, they are her only 2, so babies should look like them??
LOL, i feel confused by the pictures but also have no clue,
yes the duckling picture is babies of the first picture
the 2nd 2 i was told snowy, they are her only 2, so babies should look like them??
Snowy should have a lot more color and defined markings... also their wing bars aren't blue... if they're from mixed color parentage they could have different colored offspring... just because the parents look like one color, doesn't mean all the offspring will as well... they can be carrying other genes that can affect the colors they produce...
Hang on, gonna see if I can track down mine... they're in eclipse now...
they change colors??
sorry i am ignorant on ducks,
They sure do... it's more drastic with the males... their colors mute down to look more like the female color, or similar to their juvie color which is similar too...
thats neat
Banti, I can move this convo elsewhere if you wish???
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It is fine, I'd like to know myself! (And if pics are involved, so much the better
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It is fine, I'd like to know myself! (And if pics are involved, so much the better
-Banti
K, had to check!
Bear with me, lol... been digging up pics and now gotta switch to mobile... can't post pics through the app... :/
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