Pied Muscovy

[casportpony]

Here is a post from learycow that has pictures of pieds and non-pieds:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...te-makes-a-muscovy-pied.934437/#post-14288399

 

[casportpony]

Al's quackery is @learycow's page. It has a blurb about pied muscovies. I am sure they will pop in and clear it up. I have chocolate pied females and a black and white pied drake. I don't know as much about genetics. @Nyla can explain too!

I wanna learn about pied in ducks, so if @Nyla can comment, that would be great!

 

[learycow]

Can someone attach a picture of what a pied Muscovy looks like? I was told some of my ducklings look like they will be pied and I'm curious what that looks like.

The most common definition of pied is any bird with white and color.
Theres a little more to it than this though.

White heads (you can have a colored bird with only a white head, this is NOT pied) are very common. They can be pied or not pied.

Bibs- color over the whole body with white only on the chest. This is not pied

Magpie- also not pied. A completely different recessive gene and refers to a very specific pattern. A white bird with color on the cap, back, and tail.

Otherwise, if your bird is colored with white, it's safe to assume it's pied. They can be a variety of amounts of white. I'll post a few pics just to give you some examples

 

[learycow]

 

[casportpony]

Can pieds ever produce whites?

 

[WallingFarm]

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Beautiful birds!!

Thank you so much for the helpful info!

 

[learycow]

Beautiful birds!!

Thank you so much for the helpful info!

Anytime!

 

[learycow]

Can pieds ever produce whites?

Yes. Pied to pied can produce solid, pied, and whites

 

[LoveScovies]

We have pieds.

 

[Jpat]