Goose eggs set under broodies-Update & Pictures

[banter]

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Are you keeping any of the offspring? Please keep us posted on what colors you get from the blue/blue breeding. The genetics of colored Sebs seems to be top secret!

 

[raindrop]

I want to try this too!
I have two eggs so far from my Pilgrim pair, now I am just waiting for a broody hen.
I am trying to encourage someone by leaving a couple eggs in their favorite nest.

 

[corancher]

Banter

It won't be top secret for me so I will let the group know the color of the sebs. It will be interesting because I guess I thought they would be blue.

I believe my American Lavendars can throw blue or lavendar but this is the first year for them.

 

[banter]

I have no clue, but I wonder if you can get splashes and/or grays with blues. Color sexing is a BIG ? Thanks for sharing!

 

[Dances with Ducks]

So . . dumb question . . .but I take it there is a difference between geese, chickens, and ducks in how colors are passed down, maybe even a difference between muscovys and mallard derived ducks?

 

[austinhart123]

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its like agents come to your house tonight and question you and take your eggs away so u cant tell us

 

[banter]

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I have read a lot of conflicting information, but it seems the Greylag goose is the ancestor of most domestic geese-at least European ones, and they have some different inherited color patterns than chickens and ducks. I'm not sure at all about Asian geese (African and Chinese). I don't know about duck genetics.

 

[corancher]

I will pass along any information that I can, however I am up to my eyeballs currently working on my Orpingtons new colors. I don't have much time to work on the colors of geese.

You have peaked my interest so I will watch the Blue Seb & Lavendar American offspring to see what colors I get.

 

[ShadyGlade]

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Dave Holderread has an entire chapter on the genetics of color in "Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks" I keep trying to get it right but its a slippery thing.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

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Dave Holderread has an entire chapter on the genetics of color in "Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks" I keep trying to get it right but its a slippery thing.

I have that book! It gives really good descriptions on the duck colors and how to breed them. That's why I was wondering if the colors were passed down the same way for ducks as for geese, (and chickens). But Banter is saying there may be different genetics for ducks and geese.
So I wonder if his book on geese covers breeding for colors as well?
Here is how to get a copy of his books:
http://www.holderreadfarm.com/literature_page/literature.htm
(I guess I forgot, there are some colors in the mallard derived ducks that muscovys don't have and vice versa, which I think is the main difference.)