My First Chocolate Male Muscovy!

[casportpony]

He's very handsome!

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Kathy you can borrow my boy. He "flew" in (or his owner dropped him off in my yard) from somewhere a few years ago and he never left. I always had solid whites but when he arrived, all of that changed. He has produced some beautiful solid browns.

What a good looking drake

 

[RedRidge]

OK... I've been following this thread and figured it was time to post.
I'm in East TN and would like to find some chocolates...
Can someone point me in the right direction for some chocolate scovys?
I am not in a hurry... next spring is fine...

 

[casportpony]

OK... I've been following this thread and figured it was time to post.
I'm in East TN and would like to find some chocolates...
Can someone point me in the right direction for some chocolate scovys?
I am not in a hurry... next spring is fine...

I can ship you some eggs as soon as I get all of my chocolates in a pen together. The eggs would be free, you would just have to pay for shipping.

-Kathy

 

[RedRidge]

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Any time after Feb works great for me.
Are the chocolates really autosexing... I have heard conflicting opinions...

 

[casportpony]

Any time after Feb works great for me.
Are the chocolates really autosexing... I have heard conflicting opinions...

What do you mean by autosexing? I don't know anything about duck colors, but I think that a chocolate bred to a chocolate will produce 100% chocolates, but I could be wrong. As for sexing, I can't tell until until they're a few weeks old.

-Kathy

 

[RedRidge]

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I should have said "sex linked" - sorry... I breed Rhodebars which are auto sexed... slip of the typing fingers. LOL
The chocolate gene is supposedly sex linked to enable color sexing at hatch... supposedly...
At least that's how I have interpreted "sex linked"...
Since the chocolate gene in Muscovy's is sex linked I assume the two sexes were different colors at hatch, but I am thinking that this is not necessarily true...

Here's one link I found for instance...
http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html

 

[casportpony]

Five years ago I started off with black/white pieds and from them I got my first chocolates, which were all female. Then this year I noticed some of the chocolates ducklings were male, so I'm not sure the sex link "thing" works the same way as it does in chickens. Maybe someone could explain it to me?

-Kathy

 

[kuntrygirl]

Kathy you can borrow my boy. He "flew" in (or his owner dropped him off in my yard) from somewhere a few years ago and he never left. I always had solid whites but when he arrived, all of that changed. He has produced some beautiful solid browns.

What a good looking drake

I was looking at him the other day and his color has changed SOOo drastically. He looks almost black . I will try to take a pic of him and post so that you all can see the difference. WOW!!! I almost didn't recognize him. He does not look the same.

 

[Going Quackers]

Five years ago I started off with black/white pieds and from them I got my first chocolates, which were all female. Then this year I noticed some of the chocolates ducklings were male, so I'm not sure the sex link "thing" works the same way as it does in chickens. Maybe someone could explain it to me?

-Kathy

It's on the genetic page...

"Chocolate is the only sex-linked gene.
chocolate X chocolate = 100% chocolate
chocolate X black = black drakelets that carry chocolate and chocolate ducklets.
chocolate X blue = black and blue males that carry chocolate, chocolate and lilac females.
chocolate X self-blue = black males that carry chocolate and pastel and chocolate females that carry
pastel.
chocolate X lilac = 50% chocolate ducklings, 50% lilac ducklings."

DRake is on the left...

That is why i bought a solid black duck in Aug lol