NEW Beautiful (insert color here) Muscovy (pics pg.1 & 2)

[MDC]

Actually every color variety & feather pattern can come in pied because white is incompletely dominant. Pure whites can be either homozygous for white (pure yellow ducklings) or heterozygously white (black cap & speckles which come in as black feathers as juveniles but almost always molt out with the first adult molt). Pied birds are, explained to me by a gentleman who is quite knowledgeable about genetics, white birds with haphazard color due to the incompletely dominant nature of the gene. I don't like being that nit-picky so I simply say that any bird that has color, plus white, is pied, period. They can be pied white heads (IMO) or a solid colored white head. White head is a separate and easily identifiable gene beyond the pied aspect. I can't say with 100% certainty, but I believe that every time you breed a colored bird to a white bird you're going to get a pied offspring.

Not sure if that helps any or hurts a lot...lol My head still swims, a lot, about genetics!!

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Blue Fawns will have lacing, Self-Blues do not (hence, the Self - aspect).

Aaahh! Thanks MDC.​

 

[BellLisamo]

OoOOoOooOOOo ok so hes a self blue! thanks for the info!!! off to edit again ahhaaaa

 

[TennesseeTruly]

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SHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAYBE HE WONT NOTICE!!!!

Ummm Yea okay Lisa. LOL I'm sure he's not going to notice all these new critters running around. ROFL Did you tell him that you're getting a llama yet?

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Laurie

 

[MDC]

KOTH's avatar is a perfect example. That duck is a black barred pied. It wouldn't be black barred because that would speak to a solid colored bird with barring. It's not just pied because it not only carries some white, but also black and barring. That's my take on it, at any rate, FWIW.

 

[BellLisamo]

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SHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAYBE HE WONT NOTICE!!!!

Ummm Yea okay Lisa. LOL I'm sure he's not going to notice all these new critters running around. ROFL Did you tell him that you're getting a llama yet?

Runningggggggggggggggggggggg

Laurie

id totally get one and name him KUSCO!!!!! hehee Awww llama face!

heres my theme song @ my house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYN4djSq7o

llama llama duck hahah

 

[conny63malies]

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Its def. not a self blue. THe word self (insert color) means that the whole body is one solid color. Its is IMO a pretty nice a blue pied.

 

[MDC]

There's no way that bird is a blue. A self blue can be pied as can a barred, as can a ripple, as can any other variety.

This is a self-blue bird, granted not the best photo because she was wet, but self-blue none the less.

This is a blue.

If you look at the edge of the feather there is a darker blue edge and there is a darker blue line along the shaft which is what is referred to when people talk about lacing.

If your assertion were correct, then there wouldn't be self-blue barred birds, and yet here is a photo of one.

 

[BellLisamo]

o me oh my. this poor boy... btw his name is Michael Jackson. Poor guy doesnt know what color he is.....

 

[Bleenie]

LOL!!