muscovy duckling colors

[yinepu]

Quote:
Quote:
Wait, what exactly is "Fawn"? I'm trying to learn the mutations in Muscovies. This is what I learned so far:

Single Mutations:

White -- incomplete dominant (split White resembles Pied)

Pied -- recessive (larger, clearer patches of white feathers than split White)

White-Head -- dominant (full white head after second year)

Blue -- incomplete dominant (one copy gives a shaded Blue, two copies gives Silver)

Chocolate -- sex-linked recessive (brown with no iridescent sheen)

Lavender -- recessive (even-colored blue-gray, darker than Silver but lighter than Blue)

Sepia -- recessive (dark brown with iridescent sheen)

Barred -- recessive (type of lacing pattern, very faded in adults, appearing mostly on belly, dark edge to feathers)

Ripple -- recessive (type of lacing pattern, light edge to feathers with dark centers, remains prominent in adults)



Combinations:

Blue-Lavender = Light Lavender

Silver-Lavender = Silver Lavender

Blue-Chocolate = Lilac

Silver-Chocolate = Buff

Lavender-Chocolate = Cream

Blue-Lavender-Chocolate = Lilac Cream

Silver-Lavender-Chocolate = Buff Cream

Combinations with Sepia replacing Chocolate don't seem to have special names (which I prefer in usage over coming up with "Cream" for what's really "Lavender Chocolate")

Blue-Lavender-Sepia = Light Lavender Sepia

Silver-Lavender-Sepia = Silver Lavender Sepia

Blue-Sepia = Blue Sepia

Silver-Sepia = Silver Sepia

Lavender-Sepia = Lavender Sepia

Chocolate-Sepia = Chocolate Sepia

etc


The Pied, White-Head, split White, Barred and Ripple patterns are just added after the color.


Is "Fawn" another name for either "Lilac", "Buff", or "Cream"? Or is it another name for Blue or Lavender combining with Sepia? Or is it another mutation altogether?

Im going to have to print this out or save it.. I have a bunch of eggs and I only know the colors of one of the lines!

 

[iajewel]

What is Sepia

 

[yinepu]

Quote:
no one can resist the duckies!!!!

 

[StevenW.]

Quote:
no one can resist the duckies!!!!

I have to! I don't want no poopy babies in the house since its already getting cooler out.

Hmmm I could hatch some and just put them under one of the many broodies I have..

 

[AquaEyes]

Quote:
It's a dark, shiny brown. I don't know if there are any here, but pics I found on the net of "sepia muscovy" in a google search look similar to pics I found searching for "bronze muscovy." I don't know if they're the same mutation or not, but they look similar. Bronze is apparently only in Australia (from what I've read), and sepia is mostly in Europe. I don't know if there are any sepia here.

I, myself, prefer solid-colored birds over those with white patches, and I'm not keen on solid white birds. So I have this picture in my head for when I'm all done with grad school and buy a home, and having poultry (as well as outdoor aviaries...I'm a bird nut). I am thinking of a "gray birds" theme -- B/B/S and/or Lavender Ameraucanas, Marans and Jersey Giants, Guineafowl in the undotted black-blue-gray colors (no buff, brown, chocolate or anything with white), and B/B/S and Lavender Muscovies. So that being said, I haven't looked much further into the brown Muscovies, or those with white heads, barred or rippled.

 

[AquaEyes]

Quote:
Quote:
Wait, what exactly is "Fawn"? I'm trying to learn the mutations in Muscovies. This is what I learned so far:

Single Mutations:

White -- incomplete dominant (split White resembles Pied)

Pied -- recessive (larger, clearer patches of white feathers than split White)

White-Head -- dominant (full white head after second year)

Blue -- incomplete dominant (one copy gives a shaded Blue, two copies gives Silver)

Chocolate -- sex-linked recessive (brown with no iridescent sheen)

Lavender -- recessive (even-colored blue-gray, darker than Silver but lighter than Blue)

Sepia -- recessive (dark brown with iridescent sheen)

Barred -- recessive (type of lacing pattern, very faded in adults, appearing mostly on belly, dark edge to feathers)

Ripple -- recessive (type of lacing pattern, light edge to feathers with dark centers, remains prominent in adults)



Combinations:

Blue-Lavender = Light Lavender

Silver-Lavender = Silver Lavender

Blue-Chocolate = Lilac

Silver-Chocolate = Buff

Lavender-Chocolate = Cream

Blue-Lavender-Chocolate = Lilac Cream

Silver-Lavender-Chocolate = Buff Cream

Combinations with Sepia replacing Chocolate don't seem to have special names (which I prefer in usage over coming up with "Cream" for what's really "Lavender Chocolate")

Blue-Lavender-Sepia = Light Lavender Sepia

Silver-Lavender-Sepia = Silver Lavender Sepia

Blue-Sepia = Blue Sepia

Silver-Sepia = Silver Sepia

Lavender-Sepia = Lavender Sepia

Chocolate-Sepia = Chocolate Sepia

etc


The Pied, White-Head, split White, Barred and Ripple patterns are just added after the color.


Is "Fawn" another name for either "Lilac", "Buff", or "Cream"? Or is it another name for Blue or Lavender combining with Sepia? Or is it another mutation altogether?

Im going to have to print this out or save it.. I have a bunch of eggs and I only know the colors of one of the lines!

WAIT!!! Don't print it yet. I'm not 100% sure it's all correct. I've gathered that info from a few websites, and also the genetic calculator for muscovies. It's all dependent upon whether THOSE sources are correct. I have never had Muscovies myself, and haven't actually spoken to a breeder with experience in raising these colors and combinations. I posted it in the hopes that someone with more information could come in and correct anything I wrote that is wrong. Wait until some experts chime in -- especially regarding the names given for the combinations. Those names varied from source to source, so I decided to go with what the genetic calculator posted as results of putting the colors together.

 

[iajewel]

Here is an example of some of those colors, and they are young enough you may be able to see what they used to look like, as well as what they are becoming.

below is a chocolate fawn.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

These are the kids, some, were hatched the color your little guys are now.




Uploaded with ImageShack.us



Uploaded with ImageShack.us




Uploaded with ImageShack.us


This adult hen is a blue cream.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

 

[Wulfandwyn]

I am wondering what my ducks colors are? One girl is black and white pied. The other girl is maybe chocolate or lavender pied. and my boy is mostly white with maybe silver on the tips of some of his feathers and on his shoulder blades. The guy I bought them from said bill color is an indicator of what color they will grow up to be. Does anyone know if that is true? Sorry I don't have any younger photos of them.

Ducklings end of July

Juveniles early September

 

[AquaEyes]

Thank you for the pics!!!

 

[Bleenie]

Your Chocolate fawn hen looks like a molting Chocolate (my Choco Pied girl looks the same right now). your Blue cream is Blue Fawn, Cream is it's own color. no offense intended.

Quote: