My Drake likes to sit on unattended eggs. They fascinate me.My M drake just had to make himself a nest being 2 of his girls have one! He’s such a sweet boyView attachment 1854798
I am inlove with all your duckiesDuck paradise for my most favorite ducks ever!!!
Looks like a heavily diluted chocolate, like a brown version of the silver. That would be buff, right? If you have both buff and blue, it could be a cross. No idea what would happen then! I don't have brown ducks myself, so have no experience with it.
I know that blue and silver ducklings have brown areas and they only turn "pure" blue in their adolescent molt, so I assume it's the same with browns and that the silver will go away.
The white indicates she's pied, solid color with white areas. It'll stay that way. You have so many cool looking ducks!!!
Thank you! I don't have any buff Muscovies. The parent stock that all of my Muscovies have hatched from this year only consists of Chocolates, Chocolate Pieds, Blue Fawns, and this other color that I'm not sure what it is.
Here's a pic of it. Do you know what color this is? A silver pied maybe?
I find genetics much easier to understand with pictures.
Thank you! I'll certainly check that page out!Both buff and silver need a diluted gene from both parents, so both of your light colored ducklings must come from the blue fawns and/or the pretty girl in the picture. She's not a true blue or silver, too much brown on her chest. I'd guess a mix between blue and brown. Have you seen this page? Lots of pictures of neat looking ducks with color descriptions, also some mixes.
@the cluck juggler Wow, you also know about the Ugly Duck Farm! That's so cool! I've also been learning about Muscovy colors for the last few years from that same website! I always kinda thought the hen pictured below was a blue fawn of some sort, though I don't see much chocolate in her. It's too bad I don't remember exactly what colors her parents were. I'm assuming they were chocolates and blue fawns. Maybe she is a blue fawn with diluted chocolate genes. That would make sense wouldn't it?
I've been trying to learn about the different genes and how they work to make different colors off the Ugly Duck Farm website. I think it's just a bit confusing, but I'm hoping some day all understand it better.
Thank you so much for the links! I will check those out.I thought the blue fawn pictured in Ugly Duck Farm's site looked a bit like yours, just darker. My blues come on different shades, some really dark and some light. I've found that other genes affect how dark the blue color will be. So yeah, she's probably a very light blue fawn!
Learned so much for that page and Al's Quackery! Trying to learn color genetics from a text only article is really confusing (not to say dull). Found this site too, european authors, so some different expressions.
what color are the parents?
