Pekin X Buff mix. Beautiful birds.

[duckdrachen]

Here is a progression of our Pekin X Buff mix Dandy and Lil Bill:

Babies:



With their "mommies" Mia and Tia our 6 week old Rouens:



Dandy at 5 weeks and Lil Bill at 3 1/2 weeks:




Hope you enjoyed. Tracy from Indiana

I had a true pekin buff mix she had the golden color of the buff and beak and looks of pekin.

 

[Percipen]

Here is a progression of our Pekin X Buff mix Dandy and Lil Bill:

Babies:



With their "mommies" Mia and Tia our 6 week old Rouens:



Dandy at 5 weeks and Lil Bill at 3 1/2 weeks:




Hope you enjoyed. Tracy from Indiana

They are SO cute!! They look alot like my blue swedish ladies, just a little lighter color

 

[Floof]

that isn't a Buff mixed with Pekin. it's a Blue swedish mix. the coloring and beak are blue swedish colors not buff

So the white on a pekin can be hiding any number of colors/genes. They frequently breed out bibbed babies. White is recessive (requiring 2 copies of the gene to express) so when one is mixed with a non white duck you get to see what coloration the white was actually covering up. It's quite possible that this is the result of a pekin over a buff.

The reverse of that pairing, with a buff drake over a non chocolate or buff gene carrying pekin female, would produce sex linked ducklings.

Edit: you have a good point about the bill color!

 

[blueskies66]

that isn't a Buff mixed with Pekin. it's a Blue swedish mix. the coloring and beak are blue swedish colors not buff

This is what a pekin buff cross come out like, it's something. I just hatched four and they look just like this, genetics are something

 

[Miss Lydia]

Pictures please!