Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[EdenCamp]

Thank you. So chocolate is all shades of brown? I have 1 that is a super dark brown with green sheen on wings and another that appears to be dark brown with black and white (if that's possible).

I need to get a pic of the dark headed blue pied when her wings are open, very pretty pattern.

Choc Drake Choc wt head Pied Box of chocolates Dark Ripple

 

[EdenCamp]

Thank you. So chocolate is all shades of brown? I have 1 that is a super dark brown with green sheen on wings and another that appears to be dark brown with black and white (if that's possible).

I need to get a pic of the dark headed blue pied when her wings are open, very pretty pattern.

Choc Drake Choc wt head Pied Box of chocolates Dark Ripple

 

[EdenCamp]

Blue fawn drake Blue fawn duck

Buff N choc young ducks



Young choc drake

LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES!

Sun fade, age, molting, being dusty all can influence shade.
Often males carry choc and it shows up as an undertown.
Blue genes influence tone as well.
Lots of flavors of chocolates!

 

[EdenCamp]

Blue fawn drake Blue fawn duck

Buff N choc young ducks



Young choc drake

LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES!

Sun fade, age, molting, being dusty all can influence shade.
Often males carry choc and it shows up as an undertown.
Blue genes influence tone as well.
Lots of flavors of chocolates!

 

[Going Quackers]

Nice chocolates! yes, i have found they vary too, i own 5 of them now, all ducks. Sadly, not been able to get a chocolate drake, we seem heavy on blue and black genetics here.

 

[Miss Lydia]

is that an angel wing? Duckie is 7 weeks old. Should I wrap it now?

trying to get good pics for sex guesses lol not very cooperative... definitely getting lots of wing feathers, and lets them droop a lot.

I'd wrap there is a guide in the stickies, if may not be but sure won't hurt to wrap. and the dropping wings is normal they have to build muscle to hold up those blood feathers. Love that face.

 

[keeperofthehearth]

It's been awhile..... Caught this pic of one of my Scovy youngsters the other day drying off after a bath..... lol... thought... What a sassy look!

 

[EdenCamp]

Nice chocolates! yes, i have found they vary too, i own 5 of them now, all ducks. Sadly, not been able to get a chocolate drake, we seem heavy on blue and black genetics here.

Choc is sex linked. Ducks have only 1 choc gene so the girls either have it or they don't. Drakes have a pair of choc genes so if both aren't the recessive choc gene they can be split and carry it, but won't show it. If you have choc girls and split boys... eventually you should get a choc male. Blue fawn/lilac is when both the choc and blue genes are present.

 

[EdenCamp]

Nice chocolates! yes, i have found they vary too, i own 5 of them now, all ducks. Sadly, not been able to get a chocolate drake, we seem heavy on blue and black genetics here.

Choc is sex linked. Ducks have only 1 choc gene so the girls either have it or they don't. Drakes have a pair of choc genes so if both aren't the recessive choc gene they can be split and carry it, but won't show it. If you have choc girls and split boys... eventually you should get a choc male. Blue fawn/lilac is when both the choc and blue genes are present.

 

[Going Quackers]

Choc is sex linked. Ducks have only 1 choc gene so the girls either have it or they don't. Drakes have a pair of choc genes so if both aren't the recessive choc gene they can be split and carry it, but won't show it. If you have choc girls and split boys... eventually you should get a choc male. Blue fawn/lilac is when both the choc and blue genes are present.

The newest chocolate i have is from a chocolate that i have. The other is from a blue that has chocolate barring. Now here is a ? for you, i have a black drake, well he was he's switched to chocolate in the last few months. That i find unreal, anyways, he was a black and white pied, insert chocolate to where that black was lol