my first duck lockdown... pics added first post

[Evermore Ranch]

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Yeah good pics! Glad you had a good Hatch Rate. Great Job!

I think i can help with the colors based on what we have been hatching here. Based on what was penned together your parents should be:

Duckling color Hen Drake

Brown Black or Chocolate Chocolate, Black, or Lavender. (the chocolates pair typically stayed paired)

Black Black or Chocolate Chocolate, Black, or Lavender. (the Black pair typically stayed paired)

yellow Crested Fawn and Crested Fawn and White or Non-Crested Blue ( the blue fathered ones will have a blueish beak and the others are yellow)
White (all Crested)
I am hoping to get out and take some pictures of the babies we hatched about 4 weeks ago. I noticed you have one in the pictures that looks identical (blue with the yellow chest and outlining of eyes and beak) to one we have that is interesting as its feathers are coming in. I will upload some pics on here for you this weekend.

By the way i have them all separated by colors now and just passed the purity date.

 

[zatsdeb]

they are so cute!!!

 

[faykokoWV]

so none of them appear to be crested, does this come in later?

 

[Evermore Ranch]

no but some of them may carry the gene though i am still learning how the genetics work with crests. all of the yellowish ones came from crested hens. I only hatched 1 crested in that last batch.