For Iajewel ( and anyone else who wants to see my scovies)

[pbjmaker]

Here is the hen I told you about:
The flash kind of washed out her color

This is the chocolate hen and a blue drake

The chocolate drake:

The chocolate "baby" unknown sex:

The silver male (split white? )

Now the ones I'm keeping for sure:

My drake:

The blue fawn:

Blue pied:

A pale version of my drake - not sure what it will do to the blue color, hers is nearly washed out as it is:

 

[pbjmaker]

Oh and here is the "beige hen" with the chocolate hen:

 

[iajewel]

Oh my gish I want your ducks.. WOW..

I love the black hen.. My DH ask me "honey are you getting excited" LOL.. I was on the phone when I got to this page.. Your split white isn't split from what I see, its awesome.. is it for sale? The chocolate is also really pretty.. just wow.. I wish you lived closer so I could just pop in the car and come steel your ducks..

 

[iajewel]

This is the black hen's new boyfriend.



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I would sure love to get rid of my crappy drakes and bring the silver home too.. and the baby chocolate.. oh shoot I just love ducks LOL. The others look like they will have white heads.

I Just love..

:LOVE your ducks.

 

[pbjmaker]

Ok I love the color of yours too... hmmmmm

I am not keeping the silver drake, I had two of them and you know where the other one went

We may have to wheel and deal. How old are the "crappy" drakes you have? I will hold the black hen, the silver drake and the chocolate baby for you.

So what do you think I will get from the silver pied and the blue fawn next spring? Will they possibly make some lavenders?

I really can't take any credit for the colors of my birds only that I feed them well. The newest birds I got were fairly scrappy looking except for the batch the black hen came in.

They are just what I am starting with for breeding and I keep working toward better birds. My "friend" doesn't care about color, only wants the extra males.

 

[iajewel]

Here are my crappy males LOL.. shhhh don't tell them I said that.

These drakes are BIG, if your breeding for meat, they are your guys.



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The below will eat out of your hand and has both blue and chocolate genes, but to much white for my taste.



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Oh.. I may have more drakes as the year goes on, but right now I have some babies that I haven't sorted though yet. If you give me till spring I will know what I have and don't, maybe a bit before.

 

[iajewel]

Here is a good article on the Lav gene.

http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/2/81.extract

This is a chart that will help you

http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html

 

[AquaEyes]

Um, I'm not sure, but I THINK that the birds in pictures 5 and 6 in the original post are Lavender, not Silver (the bird in pic 6 looks like Lavender Pied). IaJewel, am I right? In any case, that's one of the shades of gray I like...definitely on my future list. You both have some really nice muscovies.

 

[iajewel]

Yes, they are Lav not Silver

 

[iajewel]

When she mates the buff with the Lav She will get 50% Lilac and 40% Buff ducklings. I want all the Lilac LOL.