Muscovies: barred or rippled?

[ccmarie]

Lilac is chocolate/silver, right? I assumed he was lavender because every duck in his flock was the same color, but I guess lilac would also breed true.

 

[learycow]

Lilac is chocolate/silver, right? I assumed he was lavender because every duck in his flock was the same color, but I guess lilac would also breed true.

Lilac (blue fawn) is blue and chocolate. Silver is a diluted blue

 

[ccmarie]

Okay. When we crossed this drake with a Black&white, they were all black&white. Crossed with the chocolate pied, they were all black as babies but now look barred as juvis (I'll go take a picture in a sec). It seems odd to me that we would get no blues or chocolates in those two crosses. You don't think he's a lavender that's lightened up in the sun? We live in AZ, we get a lot of sun fading.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Glad you got someone who knows what they are talking about.

 

[learycow]

Okay. When we crossed this drake with a Black&white, they were all black&white. Crossed with the chocolate pied, they were all black as babies but now look barred as juvis (I'll go take a picture in a sec). It seems odd to me that we would get no blues or chocolates in those two crosses. You don't think he's a lavender that's lightened up in the sun? We live in AZ, we get a lot of sun fading.

Lavenders are solid and smooth in color. They do lighten but will not have tan/brown tones.
You may have a silver. Any other pics of him? Or pics of him with a new molt?

 

[ccmarie]

We lost all but one of our adults a few weeks ago when the waterer broke without my realizing it, so I can't take any new pics of him. That's why these babies are so important--I threw every egg i could find in the bator.

Here's pics of the babies as juveniles (chocolate pied mother, unless they switched nests). The barring pattern on their chests is fading... so do you think these are blue instead of black barred? That would make sense if Mack is silver.

 

[ccmarie]

Not very good quality, I'm afraid, and probably all on the same day, but here's the other pics I have of Mack. In the first pic, he's closest to the top (except the khaki campbell mix). By the way, I changed the water in the first pic right after taking it. I should have taken the pic after changing water.