Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[kanina]

Your drake does look to be lavender. Any better pics of the females? The darker one looks to have brown tones so she wouldn't be lavender. The lighter one is hard to see in your pics.

Actually had to run home at lunch so I grabbed a few snaps.

Darker gal:

Lighter gal:

 

[learycow]

I would say they are both silvers. Lavenders won't have a dark head and light body like they do. Very pretty!

 

[Raptor86]

A wild type lover here

 

[kanina]

I would say they are both silvers. Lavenders won't have a dark head and light body like they do. Very pretty!

Thank you!

In terms of genetics it looks like you're the person to go to as well.

The lavender drake is being sold as I have a chocolate drake.
I'm not finding much on chocolate x silver. Am I looking at still being able to auto-sex ducklings? From my research I'm seeing that chocolate x blue produces lilac and chocolate ducklets, but I'm struggling to find information on the silver gene and what produces it.

 

[JanetMarie]

@Raptor86 Very pretty! I hope to get some wild type someday.

 

[Nyla]

If your still using the Muscovy Calculator, the Pearl Gray Gene is Silver. It's just another term of a name. This website helps too: LINK

Thank you!

In terms of genetics it looks like you're the person to go to as well.

The lavender drake is being sold as I have a chocolate drake.
I'm not finding much on chocolate x silver. Am I looking at still being able to auto-sex ducklings? From my research I'm seeing that chocolate x blue produces lilac and chocolate ducklets, but I'm struggling to find information on the silver gene and what produces it.

 

[Raptor86]

@Raptor86 Very pretty! I hope to get some wild type someday.

Thank you, I like to let them fly,these 2 female are great flyers, i think that the original wild muscovy has the best shape and colour. (sorry for spelling, i m romanian). I have a link with some flying from last year

 

[Miss Lydia]

They always come home? @Raptor86

 

[Raptor86]

They always come home? @Raptor86

Yes they do because i train them starting with short distances and use their instinct to return to the flock.

 

[JanetMarie]

@Raptor86 I let mine fly around also, but they don't fly as well as yours.