muscovy duckling colors

[Bleenie]

Black Pied, Blue Fawn Pied & looks like a Silver or Silver mixed color..... I say mixed because I have a hen that is a Silver mixed, not full silver, kind of a diluted, dusty looking silver with lots fo white in there(no distinctive pattern tho).... very pretty but not a true color.

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[dianaross77]

My drake Flan is a chocolate with iridescent green feathers. I didn't know that was something other than chocolate. I also have a blue pied that I believe is a duclair pied? Mostly solid with white on the front of the neck, breast, and belly.

 

[AquaEyes]

The calculator here doesn't have pics of all the possibilities, but you'll find a bunch. Also there are some pics here. The genetics section on that page doesn't tell you everything -- for example, it shows what happens when breeding a Cream male with a Self-Blue (= Lavender) female, which gives a sex-linked ratio, implying that "Cream" is really "Self-Blue (= Lavender) Chocolate" combined (Self-Blue and Lavender are the same thing). And there is also a Muscovy duck forum. This is their old site, with posts you can still read. And this is the new site. That's where I got the information to compile the genetics list I posted on this thread, but I need some expert opinion on the finer points before I can say it's correct.

 

[StevenW.]

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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?

Very interesting!
Thank you, AquaEyes!

 

[StevenW.]

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Oh my goodness! So pretty!

 

[StevenW.]

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Very Pretty!
I love that Tannish/Cream colored one!

 

[iajewel]

The chocolate hen isn't molting, she has been that way for a year.

 

[ian4379]

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ok from what we can tell over here(australia) bronze is sepia. the bronze birds either have yellow or a bronze tint legs. there is a theary that sepia and bronze are in fact two seperate genes with sepia having yellow legs and bronze having the tinted legs, just a theory though.

AQUAEYES - over her blue/sepia is called "fume" and according to this guy http://books.google.com/books?id=VM...=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false silver/sepia is called "tortora"


here are three different shades of bronze

dark bronze (front left) i guess a creamier coloured bronze(back right)

young barred bronze(front)