Scovie Ducklings - MANY NEW PICS!

[Wifezilla]

Wow! Those are awesome.

 

[chixie]

I want some scovies with more color... i think if I ask hubby for more it would be pushing it(maybe next year though...

 

[kitkatbahr]

Those are really neat looking! Thanks. Learn something new every day, huh?

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Right, they are cool looking. So compare the adult pattern to that one duckling in my pics. I think it will be a duclair.

I sure am hopeful!

 

[kitkatbahr]

I see it! I bet you are right. Can't wait to see pics as they grow.

 

[cwhit590]

great pics and cute babies!

 

[jmc]

Hi there:

Love em!

Yes, it they could be duclairs.

Recall also that the Magpie pattern of the two poor deceased Angels is but ONE version of the more general 'Duclair' (aka Piebald, Parti-Colored, Colored and White) color expression.

A duclair may also have a white head.

The Pied genotype is HIGHLY variable in its expression, so a Pied bird with that genotype may look pretty different from another Duclair carrying that same genotype.

Some Parti-Coloreds may have much more colored than others and still all of them can be true genotypic "Particolored" (Duclairs)

Your little black Sambo should be all black. He carries the 'atipico' gene, just like his daddy, it would seem. The atipico differs from the great Wild Type in only this: Atipico extends darkness throughout the duckling and reduces the amount of brown on the underparts of the adult bird.

The Atipico (called 'Black' muscovy in the standards) also leaves a bumpy and what should be a practically ALL RED caruncle. Unlike the Wild Type which has a smooth facial patch and mostly black (I prefer this feature to the warty, red caruncles)

You have Wild Type babies there, also. They are the ones that look almost exactly like baby mallards. However, if any of your "Wild Types" sports, as a duckling, a PINK BILL, that bird will not be a good WT representative. Such a bird carries a single gene for white and will be--not a Duclair--but 'just another blotchy black and white scovy'

Blotchy black and white or not--scovies are the best. And Ann, how tame mine are!!!


ETA: The black birds, with the yellow spot or bib on the front, are also Atipico--it woiuld seem. If you have any with black legs, I would say they will surely be 'Blacks'. If you have any blackies with a yellow bib THAT ALSO HAVE YELLOW AND BLACK LEGS, these will probably be some random measure of black and white. That is, they also carry a single gene for white. But a solid black duckling with black legs and a black legged black duckling with a little white bib, though they appear different now, SHOIULD BE genotypically AND phenotypically IDENTICAL.

 

[Cottage Rose]

Lucky you!
Congratulations!

I was unable to get any Magpies from John this year due to time restraints but I'm hoping it will work out for me in 2010 (or even sooner!).

 

[jmc]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=201627

See this thread. More Parti-colored/Duclairs/Piebald/Magpies.

They are not as lovely as my dead little angels were.

But you will note that Duclairs are indeed out there. and I find the color of the big one simply beautiful. It has too much color on it, to be a first rate Magpie, but it clearly has the genetic make up.

Note also the appearance of the babies, they too will be Magpies, but not perfect ones: too much color on the wings (which should have NO color).

Ann BTW, the two eggs died. I broke em open and discovered two little dead Magpies! They both had little black caps and white underparts. I couldn't tell more, but they would've been nice babies, though not as nice as the mothers.

I say this to indicate that I think for sure you have some 'Colored and White' babies indeed up there!!!!!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

I can't wait to see them as adults. They are all doing well and are able to even eat whole corn yet they are still pretty small yet! John, one of the potential duclairs has yellow downed wings. I assume they are going to be white.