Scovie Ducklings - MANY NEW PICS!

[jmc]

Just what you want!

Colored cap (not face), white wings, colored back in between, and colored tail.

Even the poor girls had too much color, but their heads were about perfect.


Darin in OH found six beauties in just a couple weeks 4 ducks 2 drakes. Wish he'd post pics!

 

[Cetawin]

What beautiful babies. Yay mama duck.

 

[jmc]

Just when you thought the thread would go away..................!

Sitting waiting for jury duty gave me time to pray and also think about scovy color genetics and your/our case.

Since the Duclair is a recessive pattern, a bird can have it only if it is possessing two genes for the pattern--homozygous, as I know you know.

Dufuss and his mate are clearly NOT Magpies--not even bad ones!

Ergo, they must both be 'split duclairs' (aka, 'carriers': each being heterozygous). Otherwise, they could in no way produce a homozygous Magpie offspring--even a bad one. And it seems clear that they have produced at least one or more.

Each parent will contribute one of its genes to the cause. In the case of the Magpie cause, some of your babies must have received the duclair gene from BOTH parents, and hence, you have some little Parti-Colored.

I am thrilled to see that you have two carriers and that little Lame Dufuss is among the chosen!!! Aren't you glad you kept him?

I wonder if he has given us down here any splits???????? time may tell in future breedings.

Also, that means that Duck or her long lost Blue mate is/was a split magpie.

What treasures lie hidden in Muscovies!

AND MAY GOD BE PRAISED FOR THE BEAUTY OF HIS LITTLE CREATURES!!!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

That is good info, I was just thinking about the DNA situation last night when I was watching the ducklings. They are 2 weeks old now and the mother only stays on the ground with them at night. The one with the black, very BLACK feet has no pink anywhere. The one I am certain will be duclair still leaves me confident.

This weekend is the swap I obtained some of those ducklings at last year. Guess what I will be looking for this year?

My black hen is brooding a huge pile of eggs again, she is the one your ducklings came from. Dufuss has been getting aggressive with the other fowls lately so he is quickly earning a trip back into the BMU.

 

[jmc]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=143114


And look at all these little duclairs!!!

Rare they ain't!!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Two of mine have the eye stripe. I wonder if they will indeed be duclair? Only one is sans the eye stripe and has clear yellow wing down.

 

[jmc]

I wouldn't worry about the eye stripe at all. That would not be a countersign, given the rest of the birds' pattern. My lost girls had a partial eyestripe. It was taken away in the front of the eyes when the caruncling expanded. But they retained the eye stripe to the rear of the eye. This does NOT appear on the pic of them which you posted..............

It may be that they won't be the best Magpie specimens--in fact that is more likely than not.

Recall that this genotype is highly variable in its phenotype, so some birds have much more color than white, and vice versa. More color, considered a fault of sorts, is the more common thing. Yours, at least so it appears now, will have a relatively large amnt. of color.

But that doesn't make the bird not be a true duclair. Selective breeding is what one may aim for if you are seeking the perfect Magpie.

The eye color of the white types (eg Magpie) will eventually be gray, whereas the eyes of the black types are brown

Also, if the three birds in question have mainly yellow legs and feet, perhaps with some black spots, that is also a good indicator.

But finally, eye stripe or no, I can't see any way of your getting black birds, be they Wild Types or Blacks, from your Magpie looking babies.

Be nice to seem more pics as time goes on.............................................?

good luck this wknd. at the swap

 

[jmc]

Yeah, Ann, I've looked again more closely at the one you have focused on in your photos.

That bird has yellow legs and feet (or mostly so, for certain) and a largely pink bill.

THAT BIRD IS GONNA BE LARGELY WHITE. IT WILL DEF. NOT BE A MOSTLY BLACK.

You are on a very good trajectory. Compare the other two you're wondering about to this one.

But the one you have displayed will be a Pied for sure.

wahoo!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

I took some new pics yesterday and have to upload them yet, no time today. I am off to the Berlin swap and will see if I can find a few more duclair types. I am taking two crates of cockerels hoping too find good homes for them.

 

[jmc]

Even more duclairs here.

see the link within this link!!

It's raining Magpies.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2452538#p2452538