Rippled Muscovy

[Going Quackers]

Holy smokes.. i have a hard enough time sorting basic colourings lol

I have no clue what i have, rippled, barred.. whathaveyou.

The oddest duck i have is the chocolate, blue bird i got this summer.. her mother is a blue but has chocolate too and dad is a white and black homozygous brown.



now you got me trolling through my birds lol this is a pic of her with some of her brothers and sisters... all the other ladies are blue and the guys black and whites...




This is Lilac who is the mama to the ones above... you cannot see it in this shot but her chest is white and brown... she is quite patterned and is several years old.



anyways, sorry for my probably useless input lol but been a fun read.

 

[learycow]

Not useless at all! It's always fun to see other peoples birds. !

Your girl looks to be a lilac (blue fawn). It's a combination of blue and chocolate genes.

 

[txcarl1258]

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@learycow
Here are the pics of my drake and female. I know the pics aren't the best getting them to hold still was about as easy as herding cats! They are about 6 months old and are a very soft chocolate brown. I am going to breed my chocolate drake to a solid black hen to start my dark ripples.

 

[txcarl1258]

This is a top view of my female. It shows her pattern nicely.

 

[Going Quackers]

Not useless at all! It's always fun to see other peoples birds. !

Your girl looks to be a lilac (blue fawn). It's a combination of blue and chocolate genes.

yeah, that word has been tossed at her a few times lol sounds right, being you can see the blue and the chocolate i love it now how to repeat it

 

[Going Quackers]

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@learycow
Here are the pics of my drake and female. I know the pics aren't the best getting them to hold still was about as easy as herding cats! They are about 6 months old and are a very soft chocolate brown. I am going to breed my chocolate drake to a solid black hen to start my dark ripples.

lol cats are easier shake a temptations treat bag.

 

[learycow]

Here's a more updated pic of some of mine.
Top left to right: Dark ripple hen, dark ripple pied drake, dark ripple pied drake, blue barred hen (starting to get adult feathers so losing some of that barring)
and the bottom is a blue drake, no rippling or barring

 

[learycow]

And anyone who breeds barred, know how they tend to lose most of the barring when they molt into adult feathers? Well I've been selectively breeding to try and keep the barring showing. These are a few of my birds who have held the barring. They are 1 1/2- 2 years old and you can see that lots of barring still shows on their chest, belly, under the wings and/or back. So my breeding is starting to pay off!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Here's a more updated pic of some of mine.
Top left to right: Dark ripple hen, dark ripple pied drake, dark ripple pied drake, blue barred hen (starting to get adult feathers so losing some of that barring)
and the bottom is a blue drake, no rippling or barring

Beautiful ducks one an all.

 

[learycow]

Beautiful ducks one an all.

Thank you! I can't wait to mix these ripples with my barreds in the spring
And these muscovy were raised with some of my call ducks (they make excellent foster mothers) so that's why there are some calls in the pic. They all hang out together