Larkwell Valley (2023)

Poking around a bit more about duck genetics....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/blue-swedish-cross-genetics-pics-added.228086/
Someone had Blue Swedish males with a Khaki Campbell female and a Runner female. All ducklings looked like Swedish (blue or black)


And these bits in a different thread:




(Same poster who wrote the article on duck genetics, but explaining a bit more here. It appears that "extended black" ducks, which would presumably include your Blue Swedish drake, produce ducklings with white bibs unless they have a specific other gene to make them actual solid black.) I think I did the quoting right, so you can click at the top of the quote to go to the thread it came from, if you want to see it in context.

I have been summoned! Lol.

Have another 5 or 6 green duck eggs under a hen hopefully (so 9 or 10 total between nests).

The possible layers are a khaki, buff and Rouen, or several Swedish. If all the eggs hatch, is it likely that their colors will give away who mama is?

If the drake is Blue Swedish, they'll all be blue bibbed, silver bibbed, or black bibbed. You can narrow down mom on the silver bibbed ones because they'll have to be from a blue swedish OR the buff to get that other blue gene. Buff is actually a color that can include blue. And chocolate. And the buff gene. It's a complicated one! If your buff is a 'dark' buff and doesn't have blue, then she can't be the mom of any silvers. If she's a 'standard' or 'light' buff, she can be.

Male ducklings from your khaki hens will carry chocolate. Males from your buff hens will carry chocolate and buff. You can't see that, though, but they will pass it to half their sons and daughters when breeding.

Ducklings from your Rouen will only have one copy of Extended Black, and since it's an incompletely dominant gene, you might get some 'bleed-through' of the mallard pattern and color. Like this duck:

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I have been summoned! Lol.



If the drake is Blue Swedish, they'll all be blue bibbed, silver bibbed, or black bibbed. You can narrow down mom on the silver bibbed ones because they'll have to be from a blue swedish OR the buff to get that other blue gene. Buff is actually a color that can include blue. And chocolate. And the buff gene. It's a complicated one! If your buff is a 'dark' buff and doesn't have blue, then she can't be the mom of any silvers. If she's a 'standard' or 'light' buff, she can be.

Male ducklings from your khaki hens will carry chocolate. Males from your buff hens will carry chocolate and buff. You can't see that, though, but they will pass it to half their sons and daughters when breeding.

Ducklings from your Rouen will only have one copy of Extended Black, and since it's an incompletely dominant gene, you might get some 'bleed-through' of the mallard pattern and color. Like this duck:

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Well heres hoping my Rouen is the layer! Those are beautiful!

So even as ducklings, the chocolate won't show?
 

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