Mandarin Duck thread ( for posting pictures and discussing)

[lcw1995]

very nice pics

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep

Now see, I was going off memory on the blacks, never seen a female black. I can see the difference in the hens easily. But tell me, what's the difference in the black and ginger males?
They at a glance look to be the same birds?

I agree, to date, I havent seen a silver mandarin?
Would like to see a pic of those as well if some one has them

 

[lcw1995]

http://www.birdtrader.co.uk/silver_mandarins_2011/advert/222828

theyre not silver in color,they look like the ones in lobos pics.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

ah
ok, those are just whites .
Noticed that auction is overseas. Most likely just a different trade name for the same color.
Same as what I was thinking on the ginger and blacks til I saw the hen difference

 

[lcw1995]

ah okay well thanks 4 clearing that up lol

 

[KansasKid]

So Lobo, your not by chance in the U.S.?

 

[lobo]

Black and ginger - moulting

Apricot, black and ginger

Apricot, ginger and black.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

ok,
Side by side I can see it now. The males blacks have a slightly darker color and the gingers are a little reddish

 

[lcw1995]

hey lobo what does youre set up look like
do you have any pics if ya dont mind me asking

 

[destinduck]

I see silvers coming in these as well as most all of ducks in the very near future. I am curious though as to where these color phases originate. Although you will get an occasional bird with more say blonde coloration in the head area like a so called "storm widgeon"and maybe thats what keepers of these oddities work with. I wonder if a recessive gene (I personally think this is the case because it starts out with a apricot / blonde mutation)or alot of these birds have hybrid roots originally. If you delve more deeply into this these are the two schools of thought. Are they kept together during breeding so you get all kinds of different colors?Im betting yes because of the second to the left mixed white colored piebald in the last photo. Also can you trace the where and how your" black" manderins came to be? Im assumming the" gingers" are a variety of the "black". Here in the states we tried to do this with all the woodduck variations and it is too far gone to find the originations of the exact same instances. Im waiting for the "red/blue" variety manderin.