Please, show me your ducks

[cheezenkwackers]

This is my crested Silver Swedish. In the US, silver means having two blue dilution alleles, it is called splash in other parts of the world. The girls can looks all white, like mine. Her brothers, who I only saw pictures of, were a light gray.

I bred her to a drake who was 1/2 Khaki Campbell and 1/2 Silver Appleyard. The ducklings were mostly sex-linked. The blue ducklings on the left were boys. The lavender duckling (blue plus brown), far left and second picture was female.

This is my lavender, all grown up:

Lately, I have been trying to raise Hookbills. My first two ducklings were Dusky drakes, heterozygous for recessive bibbing (the white wing to tips).

All grown up:

I believe this would be the same color as a dark Campbell.

My third duckling was also Dusky but he has sex-linked brown. In the US, I think we call him a chocolate dusky but he is a brown dusky elsewhere. My Australian friend informed me that chocolate should only used with extended black.
Anyway, this is him as a duckling and now. He also is heterozygous for recessive bibbing.

After three drakes, I purchased a female Hookbill. She is a brown mallard, also called Sepia and Nutmeg, I believe. She is wild type or mallard with sex-linked brown.

I recently hatched eggs from her and my brown dusky drake. I got two brown mallard ducklings (I think one girl and one boy), and one gold Snowy (or Silver outside of the US) duckling. My pair must be heterozygous for the harlequin allele. I think this duckling is a girl but the jury is still out since they are just 4 weeks old today.

Today:

Hope this helps!

 

[LydiaB]

This is my crested Silver Swedish. In the US, silver means having two blue dilution alleles, it is called splash in other parts of the world. The girls can looks all white, like mine. Her brothers, who I only saw pictures of, were a light gray.
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I bred her to a drake who was 1/2 Khaki Campbell and 1/2 Silver Appleyard. The ducklings were mostly sex-linked. The blue ducklings on the left were boys. The lavender duckling, far left and second picture was female.
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This is my lavender, all grown up:
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Lately, I have been trying to raise Hookbills. My first two ducklings were Dusky drakes, heterozygous for recessive bibbing (the white wing to tips).
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All grown up:
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I believe this would be the same color as a dark Campbell.

My third duckling was also Dusky but he has sex-linked brown. In the US, I think we call him a chocolate dusky but he is a brown dusky elsewhere. My Australian friend informed me that chocolate should only used with extended black.
Anyway, this is him as a duckling and now. He also is heterozygous for recessive bibbing.
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After three drakes, I purchased a female Hookbill. She is a brown mallard, also called Sepia and Nutmeg, I believe. She is wild type or mallard with sex-linked brown.
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I recently hatched eggs from her and my brown dusky drake. I got two brown mallard ducklings (I think one girl and one boy), and one Snowy (or Silver outside of the US) duckling. My pair must be heterozygous for the harlequin allele. I think this duckling is a girl but the jury is still out since they are just 4 weeks old today.
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Today:
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Hope this helps!

I love Dutch hookbills so much! I’d totally get some if I wasn’t still training my LGD to ducks (oddly, the older one has been chicken safe over a year and until recently was very much not duck safe. He’s finally snapping out of it). Yours are beautiful.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I love Dutch hookbills so much! I’d totally get some if I wasn’t still training my LGD to ducks (oddly, the older one has been chicken safe over a year and until recently was very much not duck safe. He’s finally snapping out of it). Yours are beautiful.

Thank you! Finding them is the hard part.

 

[LydiaB]

Thank you! Finding them is the hard part.

Yes. I may order fertile eggs next year. We shall see.

 

[DingusDuck]

I think silver appleyard female
Although one seems to have the "chocolate" gene which is kinda cool, one has a black bill for some reason and the other one had a beard

 

[Papaye]

Hello.

A big THANK YOU to all of you : you are amazing!!

I re read the text thread with the breeder. She thought they were Ancona Cayuga mix. So there you go. Not pure Ancona and maybe the lighter blue one is also half Ancona?

Really?
I would have thought being half Ancona would mean more white on the feathers...?
(Not that they are not perfect as they are...!!)

I have 13 ducks of varying appearances. I’ll list them in order from lightest to darkest.

Thank you so much...!!

First up is my eldest drake. He’s a Crested Pekin | Color White, of course.

God... he is so cute! I love his hair.
(Is it me, or does he looks like he thinks he is a dog...?)

Then I have 6 Buff Orpington-presenting ducks | Colors Light / Blonde & Buff. Here’s 2 of my hens

How.Did.You.Take.This.(First.)Picture?
It is one of the most beautiful picture of a duck I have seen in my entire life! (I am serious.)

They are so pretty...
I am, myself, trying to get at least one Runner duck with a similar colour, since I really like the contrast of these colours on the feathers...

And a drake

Drake with a gray head and yellow bill seriously always look cute, whatever breed they are...

Next up, I have 4 Khaki / Rouen-presenting breeds | Colors Khaki, Chocolate, and Blue (on their wings). Here’s a hen. She has white flight feathers, similar to what you asked for.

Yes! THAT is exactly what I am searching and so want to see...!!
If ever, in the future, you succeed to take a picture of this hen similar to the one in which your Buff duck is flapping her wing... oh please : post it here!
(...Her wings... I so want to see similar ones IRL...)

And a drake

Ah, ah! He also looks cute!
His colours are great.

Then I have a hen who was Khaki Campbell-presenting, but molted into Chocolate plumage | Colors Khaki & Chocolate.

Impressive.
So, it would mean we can not always be sure of the adult colours of a duckling...

And last but not least, I have my Blue Swedish-presenting hen! | Color Blue Bibbed w/ hints of brown all over. And yes, white wing tips!

She is just PERFECT...!
That's a shame I live in France : I would have bought eggs or ducklings from her if ever you would have sold them to me...

Now the most interesting part - My Chocolate hen and Swedish hen are half sisters.
And the Buff Orpington / Khaki / Rouen presenting ducks are all FULL siblings! Yes! Their parents are my Pekin drake and my Chocolate hen (she’s a mix of Buff, Chocolate, and Blue).

Okay...
I see where the colours come from, but... I would have never thought dad was a Pekin : none of his children look like him!!

But so, yeah : I would totally have tried to get you to sell me eggs or ducklings from your Chocolate hen if I lived close to you.
She has so amazing colour genetics...!

This is my crested Silver Swedish. In the US, silver means having two blue dilution alleles, it is called splash in other parts of the world. The girls can looks all white, like mine. Her brothers, who I only saw pictures of, were a light gray.

Okay... I now know Silver and Splash are the same...
Good to know...!

But it looks to be some confusions about duck colours according to the country, since in France, I see adds about what you call here "Silver" sold as Lavender ducks...
And like your Silver drakes, Lavender drakes are light gray coloured...!

In any case, very beautiful hen.
I did not even know there were Swedish ducks that was not bibbed!!

I bred her to a drake who was 1/2 Khaki Campbell and 1/2 Silver Appleyard. The ducklings were mostly sex-linked. The blue ducklings on the left were boys. The lavender duckling (blue plus brown), far left and second picture was female.

I imagine these cute little ducklings can be sex-linked thanks to the Chocolate gene from the (mixed) Khaki Campbell drake?

Lately, I have been trying to raise Hookbills. My first two ducklings were Dusky drakes, heterozygous for recessive bibbing (the white wing to tips).

Amazing... I did not even know Dusky coloured ducks could have white only on the wings...!!
(I so will find a way to try to get my Light Duckling ducks to birth white winged babies...)

I believe this would be the same color as a dark Campbell.

Yes.
In my country, we call this colour "Sauvage Foncé". What you would translate as "Dark Gray" or "Dark Mallard".

My third duckling was also Dusky but he has sex-linked brown. In the US, I think we call him a chocolate dusky but he is a brown dusky elsewhere. My Australian friend informed me that chocolate should only used with extended black.
Anyway, this is him as a duckling and now. He also is heterozygous for recessive bibbing.

I am learning a lot here...
All I know about Dusky colours comes from Dusky Feathers Waterflow, but I understand now I may be not know about half of that!

After three drakes, I purchased a female Hookbill. She is a brown mallard, also called Sepia and Nutmeg, I believe. She is wild type or mallard with sex-linked brown.

I had to look to understand why you call her "Brown Mallard"...
Almost all the black from Mallard coloured ducks are, in fact, replaced by brown on your Brown Mallard hen...

(Did not learn about "Sepia" and "Nutmeg" on ducks!)

I recently hatched eggs from her and my brown dusky drake. I got two brown mallard ducklings (I think one girl and one boy), and one gold Snowy (or Silver outside of the US) duckling. My pair must be heterozygous for the harlequin allele. I think this duckling is a girl but the jury is still out since they are just 4 weeks old today.

That's nice to know we can still get the Harlequin gene from brown parents...!!

Hope this helps!

Oh yes, it does...!
Your explanations are great, and I need(ed) to see pictures of ducks...

Thank you very much!!

think silver appleyard female
Although one seems to have the "chocolate" gene which is kinda cool, one has a black bill for some reason and the other one had a beard

They... do look like Silver Appleyard, yes.
Cute ducks...!!

I am no more surprised by bill colours : I have already seen several pictures of Grey Indian Runner with a black bill, so...

But your duck with the brown throat...? She looks funny.

 

[KathiQuacks]

I would have thought being half Ancona would mean more white on the feathers...?

I see where the colours come from, but... I would have never thought dad was a Pekin : none of his children look like him!!

This is where genetics get funky. White plumage is a recessive trait, meaning both parents must carry and pass down the white gene for their children to be white. Since the Ancona and my Pekin are the only ones with the white gene, the white plumage gets ignored!
Most of my first ducklings were Pekin x Rouen, and this was the result - Rouen with hints of white

God... he is so cute! I love his hair.
(Is it me, or does he looks like he thinks he is a dog...?)

He’s certainly goofy like a dog

How.Did.You.Take.This.(First.)Picture?
It is one of the most beautiful picture of a duck I have seen in my entire life! (I am serious.)

Thank you!! It was a lot of sitting, watching, waiting for someone to flap their wings. She’s the only one I was able to catch in this pose.

Yes! THAT is exactly what I am searching and so want to see...!!
If ever, in the future, you succeed to take a picture of this hen similar to the one in which your Buff duck is flapping her wing... oh please : post it here!
(...Her wings... I so want to see similar ones IRL...)

For sure, I will

 

[Papaye]

I just took pictures, so just to say... here is one of my white winged bibbed black Indian Runner ducklings :

(He is one-week-old...)

I have others like him, but for the time being, he is the one I plan to keep - whatever if he is a male or a female -, since he is the one that has the whitest wings.

After what, I will let him (or her) mate with other coloured duck, so I can then get a lot of differently coloured white winged ducklings.
(Don't know if it will work, but I will lose nothing to try...)

This is where genetics get funky. White plumage is a recessive trait, meaning both parents must carry and pass down the white gene for their children to be white. Since the Ancona and my Pekin are the only ones with the white gene, the white plumage gets ignored!
Most of my first ducklings were Pekin x Rouen, and this was the result - Rouen with hints of white

...More white, more cute...!

Genetics are, in fact, interesting.

When I cross a Trout Runner drake with a Light Dusky Runner hen, I get either a pure Light Dusky duck, OR a faulted Trout :

This one is my adult faulted Trout hen. (She has more white on her feathers... look at the speculum on the wings...!)
Dad is a Trout drake; mom is a Light Dusky duck...
And I don't understand why I can not get STANDARD coloured Trout Runner ducks when I cross these two colours...?

Thus, I plan to try breeding my Trout drake with other Dusky coloured ducks, so I can know if the "issue" comes from the Dusky pattern allele or not.

(Genetics, at least, get kind of funny when we can experiment ourselves...)

Thank you!! It was a lot of sitting, watching, waiting for someone to flap their wings. She’s the only one I was able to catch in this pose.

The work and luck of a lifetime...
God... congratulations. You deserve it.

 

[Beanfox]

Hello.

I am making this thread to beg you for pictures of your ducks, whoever you are, and whatever your ducks are...!

Indeed : even though we can find all kind of pictures on the Internet... I feel pictures of ducks are actually much too rare.
Fact is, when I am searching for some ducks - breeds or colours -, I don't always find what I am searching for, whatever language I am searching with...

For example, I have a Light Dusky RUNNER DUCK, but I could not find any information (picture) to actually know about Light Dusky colour until I found it : https://www.duskyfeatherswaterfowl.com/dusky-pattern
...Trust me : before finding this link, I did not even know how to call the colour of my duck, given I could not find any picture when I first tried to find similar coloured ducks on the Internet... (I even thought then I could get Brown ducklings with my Light Dusky duck, because I didn't know any better...!! In fact, last year, I believed my Light Dusky ducklings were brown...!!)

Even now, there are duck colours I would like to find, but just can't (or can't enough) : Splash, Brown, Blue Pied, Lilac, etc...
(I am particularly hungry for pictures of solid coloured ducks with white feathers on the wings...!!)

(I will admit I can't even tell the difference(s) between Silver and Lavender : until recently, I actually thought they were the same colour, but labelled differently depending on the country...!
WHY does the Internet not have MORE pictures...?!!)

I am especially interested in Splash colours, because the only picture of a Splash Duck I finally could find shows a Splash DUTCH HOOKBILL drake, but to me, he does not look like what I imagined a Splash duck to be...?

Thus, if some of you have pictures... please enlighten me and show them; and think to precise what breed, colour (standard or not), and gender they are.
(Hybrids are welcome, even MORE than welcome... but if you can, do tell what the parents are, please!)

Also : I fell in love with aged (whitening) solid coloured ducks... so, if you have pictures of them - before (younger) and after (older) -, I would really, REALLY like to see them.

(...Do show how much you are proud of your ducks.)
Thank you!

Here’s a recent photo of 2 of my Blue Swedish. They are 5 months old. They have the white wing feathers you were mentioning!

 

[Yard Farmer]

My Rouen drake, and Khaki Campbell hen.