Ducks crossing?!

[Duckwrestler404]

I have 2 female Swedish ducks, one blue splash and one black, im looking to breed them, but dont know what to get, i want unique looking ducks, please help!

 

[Miss Lydia]

@Pyxis

 

[TomCahalan]

A black bibbed duck, when mated with almost any other breed, will produce a duck with the same pattern. Depending on the drake's breed, you might be able to get chocolate bibbed, blue bibbed, or lavender bibbed. If the drake has the pied allele (carried by fawn&white runners, magpies, and ancona) then you will get a duck with more white on it.

Your silver bibbed duck will give similar results, but in lighter colors (silver, lilac, lavender, blue)

In subsequent generations you can get a much wide range of colors.

You can put your duck and hypothetical drakes into this calculator to see the range of potential results for each breeding:

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html

 

[Duckwrestler404]

A black bibbed duck, when mated with almost any other breed, will produce a duck with the same pattern. Depending on the drake's breed, you might be able to get chocolate bibbed, blue bibbed, or lavender bibbed. If the drake has the pied allele (carried by fawn&white runners, magpies, and ancona) then you will get a duck with more white on it.

Your silver bibbed duck will give similar results, but in lighter colors (silver, lilac, lavender, blue)

In subsequent generations you can get a much wide range of colors.

You can put your duck and hypothetical drakes into this calculator to see the range of potential results for each breeding:

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html

So there is no way of getting a bibbed mallard? Or duclair, i was thinking breeding the black Swedish to a rouen

 

[TomCahalan]

There are two completely different ways for a duck to have a white bib.

The common way is for a duck to inherit the "extended black" allele. This allele is dominant, which is why your ducks can only bibbed ducklings. This bibbing is surpressed in ducks that carry two copies of the recessive dusky allele (on another gene).

The other way is for a duck to inherit two copies of the "recessive bib" allele, which is on another gene. Swedish ducks do not carry this allele. You can find this rare allele in dusky hookbills. To breed a bibbed mallard you would need to get your hands on a dusky hookbill. Your swedish ducks would not be good mates for such a goal though, as you might get the recessive bib and the extended black bib mixed up, and end up losing the recessive allele.

My understanding is that duclair ducks come in the same colors as swedish ducks.

Black swedish x rouen will give you black bibbed ducks 100% of the time.