Has anyone bred Pekin and welsh harlequin ducks together??

[DavisDucks]

Erin, don't forget! We are all waiting and anxious, popcorn popped, waiting for Miss Joy to be on the big screen!

Ok, doing it right now!! My husband will be the camera man and hes not the best so bare with me!!

 

[DavisDucks]

Joy❤

 

[Jpat]

Shes soo cute it hurts my heart!

 

[DuckyDonna]

Joy❤

I especially loved video #5 where she's looking around at everything very curious. I wonder what she'd do if you put her down on the grass. She is the sweetest thing and you are amazing with her! She's so BIG now!

 

[DavisDucks]

I especially loved video #5 where she's looking around at everything very curious. I wonder what she'd do if you put her down on the grass. She is the sweetest thing and you are amazing with her! She's so BIG now!

I actually brought her out the other day and held her in the grass. Surprisingly, she didnt try to eat it or forage in anyway. But I think she enjoyed it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What sweet videos. Joy is so precious

 

[Runner duck mom]

OMG, so cute! Love hearing her make her happy duck sounds playing with her toy. Thank you so much for sharing. She has such pretty colors, especially all her dark chest feathers

 

[DavisDucks]

OMG, so cute! Love hearing her make her happy duck sounds playing with her toy. Thank you so much for sharing. She has such pretty colors, especially all her dark chest feathers

Thanks so much. I was actually in the pet store forever trying to find toys that would work for her. Nothing she could ingest, of course. But this is her favorite one.

 

[DavisDucks]

Hi, I was talking with a friend and we are just still blown away on how my jet black ducks came from Max & Emmie. (Pure white pekin, welsh harlequin) @Pyxis Do you know about this at all? Were just very curious. I'll attatch pics of mom & dad (Max & Emmie) l, then the black ducks we just had 2months ago. The rest are black & yellow mixture. Anyone else with thoughts as well, would love to hear it. Thanks so much @DuckyDonna

 

[Pyxis]

Hi, I was talking with a friend and we are just still blown away on how my jet black ducks came from Max & Emmie. (Pure white pekin, welsh harlequin) @Pyxis Do you know about this at all? Were just very curious. I'll attatch pics of mom & dad (Max & Emmie) l, then the black ducks we just had 2months ago. The rest are black & yellow mixture. Anyone else with thoughts as well, would love to hear it. Thanks so much @DuckyDonna

It's because your pekin is black 'under' the white White is recessive in ducks and if a duck gets two copies and it expresses, it covers up all other colors. So your pekin would have been black bibbed, were she not recessive white.

Extended black is dominant over mallard base, which is what a welsh harlequin's color is based on. So, the duckling only inherits one copy of white from the pekin parent, so it doesn't express, and inherits the dominant extended black gene. Thus, black babies