Feather Legged Ducks!

[Amer]

https://m.facebook.com/snyderswaterfowl/
The Snyder duck, naturally developed by Snyder's Waterfowl, is a breed selected for feathers down its shanks. I have never witnessed this phenomenon before.
When I stumbled upon this page looking for more information on the Aleutian color variety, I discovered that Snyders has all manner of knowledge on duck and waterfowl genetics... they even have aqua African geese, Silkie ducks, and recessive blue ducks!
Just had to share with you duck folks...

 

[Pyxis]

Cool! I've had a couple ducks with lightly feathered shanks before; it seems to pop up from time to time. Neat that they have bred and selected for it.

Recessive blue sounds interesting, that's not something I've heard of in ducks before. Any chance you have a link to any of their posts talking about it?

 

[Amer]

Cool! I've had a couple ducks with lightly feathered shanks before; it seems to pop up from time to time. Neat that they have bred and selected for it.

Recessive blue sounds interesting, that's not something I've heard of in ducks before. Any chance you have a link to any of their posts talking about it?

It's far down on the page... I'll see if I can find it.

 

[Amer]

From what I've gathered, recessive blue is also known as "silver?" At least on a mallard base it is...

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

My Ducks are already panting in the 86F heat, would they have feathered legs they'd probably been cooked. - But interesting that is! Never heart of feathered duck legs.

 

[Pyxis]

From what I've gathered, recessive blue is also known as "silver?" At least on a mallard base it is...

So this is where it gets a little dicey with color names, because I don't know what Canada, where this seller seems to be, uses for color names, BUT silver here in the US means a double dose of blue. Not recessive blue, just regular blue. And silver on mallard base is called pastel. In the UK, silver is what we here in the US call snowy, and that's from the harlequin gene, not any kind of recessive blue gene.

This sounds like it's supposed to be something totally different though, but I can't seem to find any literature about recessive blue in ducks anywhere. In fact the only thing I can find about it seems to also be from this seller. They seem to be saying it's like self blue, aka lavender, in chickens. Such a gene does exist in muscovies already.

https://www.pto.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=534

It certainly does look different than anything else I've seen before.

 

[Amer]

So this is where it gets a little dicey with color names, because I don't know what Canada, where this seller seems to be, uses for color names, BUT silver here in the US means a double dose of blue. Not recessive blue, just regular blue. And silver on mallard base is called pastel. In the UK, silver is what we here in the US call snowy, and that's from the harlequin gene, not any kind of recessive blue gene.

This sounds like it's supposed to be something totally different though, but I can't seem to find any literature about recessive blue in ducks anywhere. In fact the only thing I can find about it seems to also be from this seller. They seem to be saying it's like self blue, aka lavender, in chickens. Such a gene does exist in muscovies already.

https://www.pto.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=534

It certainly does look different than anything else I've seen before.

Yeah. The term "silver" should just be erased altogether, because of the confusion it causes.
Silver mallards is something they sell, a mallard base with recessive blue. It looks almost like silver wood and mandarin ducks.
https://www.freewebs.com/snyderswaterfowl/silvermallardducks.htm
This is what they look like.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Aren’t they gorgeous