I don’t how this happened

[TheAlrightyGina]

Really?? I also just deleted posts or corrected myself

Yep. I feel ya. Just look for the edit button on your post. It's right next to delete and has a pencil symbol.

 

[Pyxis]

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 dadView attachment 2632567View attachment 2632573View attachment 2632574

Are we talking about the little all yellow guy? The chocolate bibbed one is the same color as mom (means dad carries chocolate, btw) so I'm assuming we mean the little yellow one.

A better picture would help, but I'm pretty sure it's snowy, going by the dark tip on the beak and what looks like black stippling in the down.

All the genes required for snowy are recessive. So it just means mom and dad are both carrying mallard base, and harlequin.

 

[Pyxis]

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"))

You've hatched blonde emus from two wild colored parents? Sorry, I've been working on figuring out the genetics behind blonde and white in emus, and so far what we (me and the others looking at it) have come to the conclusion of, is that it's incompletely dominant. One copy of the gene makes blonde, and two copies makes white. That's why a blonde mated to a wild colored bird that has no history of blonde or white in its parentage can result in blonde chicks.

It also makes sense in that two blondes together can produce wild colored, blonde, and white chicks. If blonde was just a recessive gene, then it would be impossible for two blondes together to produce wild colored chicks.

So in other words, it's like blue in chickens and ducks.

But if you're saying you have put two wild colored emus together, with absolutely no chance that they mated with a blonde or a white, and they produced blonde chicks, then that would throw in wrench in that theory.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

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 ^^

You've hatched blonde emus from two wild colored parents? Sorry, I've been working on figuring out the genetics behind blonde and white in emus, and so far what we (me and the others looking at it) have come to the conclusion of, is that it's incompletely dominant. One copy of the gene makes blonde, and two copies makes white. That's why a blonde mated to a wild colored bird that has no history of blonde or white in its parentage can result in blonde chicks.

It also makes sense in that two blondes together can produce wild colored, blonde, and white chicks. If blonde was just a recessive gene, then it would be impossible for two blondes together to produce wild colored chicks.

So in other words, it's like blue in chickens and ducks.

But if you're saying you have put two wild colored emus together, with absolutely no chance that they mated with a blonde or a white, and they produced blonde chicks, then that would throw in wrench in that theory.

I was just using something they had read as an example, genetics can be a little daunting if someone doesn't know them (and on a forum it's kinda impossible to know). I don't own nor have I bred emus, but I believe I read that the blonds and whites are recessive when I did reading into it last year? I'm not sure if it's like blue, I don't know how it really works cause I didn't look much into it. Honestly I was just kinda amazed that emus came in different varieties, you don't often hear of them : D

 

[Pyxis]

I was just using something they had read as an example, genetics can be a little daunting if someone doesn't know them (and on a forum it's kinda impossible to know). I don't own nor have I bred emus, but I believe I read that the blonds and whites are recessive when I did reading into it last year? I'm not sure if it's like blue, I don't know how it really works cause I didn't look much into it. Honestly I was just kinda amazed that emus came in different varieties, you don't often hear of them : D

Well darn, I missed the part where you said you didn't know the genetics, lol. I was kind of hoping someone had actually done some test breeding, because for whatever reason, breeders that have had these colors for years don't seem to really be paying attention to how they're bred.

But IMO it's incompletely dominant. Really to me it's the only thing that makes sense with what we do know about the colors so far.

(I've got two eggs in the incubator right now from a breeder that has blondes and whites. Everyone think blonde and white thoughts for me, lol).