"Old Dan" has won Best of Variety and Best of Breed at Numerous shows. Took home a Grand Champion Waterfowl once. We have hatching eggs available. PM for info.
Adorable!
She is Barred (she'll lose much of that barred pattern on her back as she matures), and she's also "true" pied. Often, you'll hear people refer to birds with random splotches of white as being "pied" but in reality, they are split to white. There is a separate, recessive pied gene (sometimes called magpie) which results in the clean, symmetrical pattern of white your bird displays when they have two copies of the gene.
Out of curiosity, do you happen to have any pics of her when she was a duckling, showing her down color and pattern?
Thank you,AE! I didn't know that about the colors.. I love genetic talk!
I got her when she was about 4 weeks old,so these are the youngest pics I have of her.
I have videos also! She's my little dancing queen!
Very cute. I was wondering what her first round of down looked like, but I think she was already molting out of it by the time you got her. I wanted to see if I could guess if she was dusky or not. That gene expresses itself most obviously in the newly-hatched duckling down (if you've ever seen Muscovy ducklings with a completely dark head, no yellow on the face, that's a dusky), but it also has an minor effect on the adult colors -- dusky Muscovies have less of a brownish tinge and sharper colors, and supposedly most of the show-quality stock is selected for dusky for that reason. I'm still trying to figure out from pictures exactly how that difference plays out. All I'm going by is what Dave Holderread wrote in his book on ducks that I have, but I've yet to see side-by-side pics of wild-type versus dusky in adults. Does anyone else here have pics of two different ducks of the same color that differ only in that one is dusky and the other is wild-type?
I am excited to say that I am about to set the first eggs from the lavender pair of Muscovy. I am not setting any from the black girl that I will be adding later but I have opened their eggs for a while now and they have been fertile (and yummy) so I am going to set them and see what hatches out. They are so beautiful to me! I named them Lila and Lance.
I am excited to say that I am about to set the first eggs from the lavender pair of Muscovy. I am not setting any from the black girl that I will be adding later but I have opened their eggs for a while now and they have been fertile (and yummy) so I am going to set them and see what hatches out. They are so beautiful to me! I named them Lila and Lance.
