Pure white ??

[Goat_Walker]

Ok, So i have a solid white hen who is currently hatching me out some babies. Last I checked she had one or two that looked to be solid white. Now she was bred by a white drake and a black bibbed wild drake. So could these solid yellow pink billed / pink legged ducklings be pure white? or are these possibly from my black drake and just the white took over completely? isnt white recessive?

 

[keeperofthehearth]

From MDC's genetics page:

White is incompletely dominant gene in Muscovy so breeding white birds to any other color often results
in 'pied' birds. To the experts, these birds are actually white birds with haphazard color. Heterozygous
whites, as ducklings, have yellow down with black patches on the cap of their head which are present
only until the first molt. Heterozygous adults are pure white. Homozygous white ducklings have yellow
down without the black caps. They, too, are completely white as adults. Both will have pink bills and
feet.

So no, white is not recessive.

 

[Goat_Walker]

Oh wow, my head hurts. So does that mean that even if its a black drake over a white hen that my "white" babies are still a mix of colors? Im asking because i have a guy who wants solid whites for breeding stock and i cant sell him ducklings that arnt all white in the background.

 

[lovesduckies]

i have a solid white hen too and her hubby is a black pied drake.. no solid white babies. i got black pied and BLUE pied

 

[allanimals21]

once again I would kill for a white muscovy. I've got all sorts of colors but no whites.

 

[lovesduckies]

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have you seen mine? don't mean to brag lol but mine is a beauty!

 

[allanimals21]

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have you seen mine? don't mean to brag lol but mine is a beauty!

Well a picture would help! lol

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Goat_Walker, you should PM MDC or Cottage Rose on this one. Those two are pretty good in the genetics dept. There was someone else on here that had a good handle on all this color genetic stuff but I can't remember who. Sorry!

 

[lovesduckies]

Quote:
have you seen mine? don't mean to brag lol but mine is a beauty!

Well a picture would help! lol

oh well i guess i could put some up originally.. my brain is gone..

 

[allanimals21]

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Well a picture would help! lol

oh well i guess i could put some up originally.. my brain is gone..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46966_silly_girl.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46966_quackers_and_mom.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46966_quackers_and_mom_0.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46966_quackers_so_cute.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46966_quackers_on_eggs_04.jpg

so where do you live? When are you gonna be gone? lol Ducky may just disappear. I want a white so bad!!!