Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[hmarg06]

I'm having a difficult time keeping all the colors straight haha! I see a lot of people saying the ones that look like my hens are Lavender. So lavender is a uniform color, and they are blue since they are darker at the head and tail? The kind of red overcast simply means they were out of a chocolate, or carry that gene? I guess that's what keeps throwing me. The blue drake is such a crisp, clean blue, and the ladies have a red tint to them.

 

[hmarg06]

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The rooster is a Blue laced red wyandotte rooster

That's the picture I entered for the calendar contest haha, I'm not sure why it was still there, and it wouldn't delete?

 

[Nyla]

Lavenders look like this

 

[hmarg06]

These are the pictures of their parents, and what the lady i got them from said.

 

[hmarg06]

Sorry for all the questions, I just follow this thread pretty close, and I'm finally just starting to figure out what mine must be. Ok, so lavender does look very uniform, and almost more a lighter steel blue. I don't think I actually have any then. Unless those drakes are a lighter lavender vs lilac. Are lilac and silver basically the same thing? I know a couple colors had more than one name.

 

[Nyla]

No. Lilac is more of a peachish cream color and silver is more of a grayish blue color.

Here is a Lilac Hen

 

[hmarg06]

That's really pretty! I keep looking on-line, but I know it's not all correct, and I think that's what keeps confusing me the most.

 

[Nyla]

So I'm going to try something new. I'm going to keep this Lilac duckling in my bed room and pet it and play with it all day and see how tame I can get it. So I can walk around animal swaps showing her off. Do you think she is too old? This is her setup.


I think she may be a silver? Also does she look like a she?

 

[Nyla]

I need duck diapers!! Any know of where to get them and what size my little one will need? I put my hand next to her as a size comparison. I'd say she is around 8-9 " long? She is 5 weeks old

 

[learycow]

I'm having a difficult time keeping all the colors straight haha! I see a lot of people saying the ones that look like my hens are Lavender. So lavender is a uniform color, and they are blue since they are darker at the head and tail? The kind of red overcast simply means they were out of a chocolate, or carry that gene? I guess that's what keeps throwing me. The blue drake is such a crisp, clean blue, and the ladies have a red tint to them.

Lavender is a smooth grey (can be light or dark but not too different between the two). No lacing and no other shades to it.
Blue can be light or dark. Heads tend to be darker and there's usually lacing. Which helps in differentiating between that and lavender.
Blues can have brown tones, usually seen on chest and tail, as juveniles, but it should molt out. This just means they carry color.
If blue and brown tones all over, then it's a lilac. Lilac also come in light and dark shades like blue.