Mandarin Duck thread ( for posting pictures and discussing)

[lcw1995]

nice birds

 

[Doctor T]

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Beautiful!
There's so much grass! What type of enclosure are they in?

 

[lobo]

At one time I found this website and from here I took the name.
http://stanritar.tripod.com/mandarin_blond.html

I think that it is a misnomer. Everything shows that these birds are of platinum mutation. The platinum mutation is a sex-linked recessive.
The Platinum gene is from the same family as the Lutino. A 'family' of genes is produced when more than one mutation is present at the same site on a chromosome. Here we have the lutino and platinum being at the same location yet having a different visual outcome. This has occurred as a result of a single gene being altered in two different ways giving us two genes that are both variations of the same original gene. The Lutino acts by preventing the depositing of the grey/brown family pigments or melanins. Platinum has the same effect but does not completely eliminate all the melanin as does Lutino.

Lutino mutation = white mandarins
Platinum mutation = blonde mandarins
Cinnamon mutation = apricot mandarins

The Cinnamon gene effects the melanin pigment by actually stopping the cinnamon -brown pigment being changed to grey or black. The amount of pigment doesn't change at all just the colour of it. The brown colouring that remains should show no shades of grey or black in any form.

One of my females

 

[lcw1995]

u sure do take some nice pics lobo

 

[peacock]

Hey Lobo, wich color is the hen, she looks to me white with a stroke of blonde in?

 

[mckenzie]

Thank you! I didn't realize they were asking for apricot mandarins i haven't ever seen them before. They are a 11x22x7 pen and it is made out of chain link fence. I have one blue wing teal hen that can squeeze out of the pen but she comes right back in.

 

[lobo]

For now, I'm not 100% sure what kind of mutation, but I bet on platinum. I have 5 females in this color. This color is called blonde, tone is much lighter than in apricot.

 

[destinduck]

Is there a certain color or coloration you are trying to achieve with the mixing of all these different colorations? Is this how" silver" comes about? Like in woodducks.

 

[lobo]

No, with each different-looking bird acts the same way. First outcrossing with standard to expand the genetic pool. Then line-breeding. I do it, because sex-linked mutations are mutually exclusive in females and at the beginning is not known or is it sex-linked or autosomal.
I am keeping each color separately, because the only way you can get valuable breeding material.

 

[peacock]

Hopefully you breed as soon as possible a drake from this color so we can see wich mutation it is, the female ginger does it have a brown belly

peacock