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[TherryChicken]

I got my first duckling! It's not the one I've been watching but I'm happy I finally have a duckling.

The one has been pipped for 41 hours I think. It looks like it is trying to turn so it can pip the correct end of the egg.

Honestly how I do it is, our eggs are extra tough. So if no external pip in 24 hours of internal then I will pip it. Then I will wait for 48 hours to see if it hatches, if it doesn't then I will step in again. I breed muscovies.

 

[minihorse927]

So what would I get if I bred a chocolate drake to a lilac hen??

you'll get all lavender offsping. Lilac is 2 copies of blue with chocolate. The hen could only pass blue and chocolate and the drake can only pass black and chocolate. Blackxsilverķwhich is the base color of the lilac) can only.make.blue. add chocolate to the mix and you can only make lavender

 

[TherryChicken]

you'll get all lavender offsping. Lilac is 2 copies of blue with chocolate. The hen could only pass blue and chocolate and the drake can only pass black and chocolate. Blackxsilverķwhich is the base color of the lilac) can only.make.blue. add chocolate to the mix and you can only make lavender

If I remember correctly lilac is the same as blue fawn on the generator. If that's the case then they will produce lilac/blue fawns and chocolates as I breed them.

 

[minihorse927]

If I remember correctly lilac is the same as blue fawn on the generator. If that's the case then they will produce lilac/blue fawns and chocolates as I breed them.

blue fawn (unless it's completely different in muscovy) has nothing to do with chocolate. A lilac in every other breed of duck is a silver based bird showing chocolate. Unfortunately muscovy aren't my specialty, but chocolate genetics are.

 

[TherryChicken]

blue fawn (unless it's completely different in muscovy) has nothing to do with chocolate.

Blue fawns are created by blues and chocolates.

 

[minihorse927]

Blue fawns are created by blues and chocolates.

yep, I just gave myself a crash course in muscovy color names! Lol.

http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html

 

[TherryChicken]

blue fawn (unless it's completely different in muscovy) has nothing to do with chocolate. A lilac in every other breed of duck is a silver based bird showing chocolate. Unfortunately muscovy aren't my specialty, but chocolate genetics are.

Well I'm glad because chocolates are lovely. This is my chocolate boy

 

[TherryChicken]

yep, I just gave myself a crash course in muscovy color names! Lol.

http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html

LOL I do it too

 

[minihorse927]

LOL I do it too

odd how they are super different than every other duck breed. What muscovy people call lilac is lavender to other breeds.

 

[minihorse927]

I've only ever had a couple chocolate hens to sit eggs in muscovy, go figure.