I don’t how this happened

[Backyardducks_]

I have two ducks one male one fife ale and the female started laying eggs and the first twenty eggs we incubated and most of them looked like the parents but I have this one that’s different brown one is the mom black one is the dad

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

It'll be easier to guess genetics once they have feathers : D

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Maybe Ms. Duck pulled a sneaky on Mr. Duck?

 

[Backyardducks_]

Maybe Ms. Duck pulled a sneaky on Mr. Duck?

I only have the two ducks

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

I only have the two ducks

Could a wild one have gotten in? I really have no idea I'm just spitballing.

 

[Backyardducks_]

Could a wild one have gotten in? I really have no idea I'm just spitballing.

I don’t think so but when I look it up it says it can happen but it’s un likely, I watched this video of this guy hatching his ostrich eggs and he had dark parents and still got a blonde baby and he wasn’t talking about how they have the gene even tho they don’t look like it I dont know much about that kinda stuff I just look everything up and use this website !

 

[Backyardducks_]

I don’t think so but when I look it up it says it can happen but it’s un likely, I watched this video of this guy hatching his ostrich eggs and he had dark parents and still got a blonde baby and he wasn’t talking about how they have the gene even tho they don’t look like it I dont know much about that kinda stuff I just look everything up and use this website !

Was talking*

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Was talking*

You can edit your previous comment to fix the typo if you want.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I don’t think so but when I look it up it says it can happen but it’s un likely, I watched this video of this guy hatching his ostrich eggs and he had dark parents and still got a blonde baby and he wasn’t talking about how they have the gene even tho they don’t look like it I dont know much about that kinda stuff I just look everything up and use this website !

Everything has two genes so to say (one from each parent) and some colors are dominant (such as the "wild" color in emus!) while other are recessive (like the "blond" in emus!) so while two emus who LOOK wild colored (lets call it W) they can be secretly carrying the blond gene (which would look like this W/w (the little w representing the blond, the big representing the "wild"))



So even if the parents look one way, they can carry recessive genes that make different colored babies (I'm not sure about emu genetics this is just an example : D)

Seeing the adult/older plumage and feathers of that duckling in question will make identifying it's genetics much easier ^^

 

[Backyardducks_]

You can edit your previous comment to fix the typo if you want.

Really?? I also just deleted posts or corrected myself