Shaws call duck incubation thread (hatch a wonderful(worthless to Ralphie) dux thread)

[shawluvsbirds]

 

[shawluvsbirds]

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I need help.
I have to decide between these two drakes To keep.
Factors to consider:
1.I really want to keep the female blue Bibb that is the black Bibbs sister.
2. I am uncertain who the mother is of the pastel drake (Drako)
3. Drako is super cute and easy going. . don't know how the black Bibb will be yet too young.
4. I have 3 pastel girls, one blue fawn girl, one grey girl (that carries a blue gene) and one black Bibb girl. . my only black besides this new drake.
5. For drakes I can't part with I have Ralphie, blue fawn. . brother to one of my pastel girls. Alex a blue Bibb that is Lexis baby, duck who is Janes man and promised to have a forever home then Drako. The pastel I am possibly thinking of selling in order to keep the black Bibb drake.
Opinions?
@Pyxis
(And everyone else just tagging to get her attention)

 

[Pyxis]

View attachment 1534331 View attachment 1534332 I need help.
I have to decide between these two drakes To keep.
Factors to consider:
1.I really want to keep the female blue Bibb that is the black Bibbs sister.
2. I am uncertain who the mother is of the pastel drake (Drako)
3. Drako is super cute and easy going. . don't know how the black Bibb will be yet too young.
4. I have 3 pastel girls, one blue fawn girl, one grey girl (that carries a blue gene) and one black Bibb girl. . my only black besides this new drake.
5. For drakes I can't part with I have Ralphie, blue fawn. . brother to one of my pastel girls. Alex a blue Bibb that is Lexis baby, duck who is Janes man and promised to have a forever home then Drako. The pastel I am possibly thinking of selling in order to keep the black Bibb drake.
Opinions?
@Pyxis
(And everyone else just tagging to get her attention)

It's hard to say. What reasons do you have for wanting to keep the black bibbed drake? Did you want more black bibbed babies going forward? Or just to have another black duck in the flock?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

It's hard to say. What reasons do you have for wanting to keep the black bibbed drake? Did you want more black bibbed babies going forward? Or just to have another black duck in the flock?

Ya I would like to have more black Bibb babies. And I just think he is super cute and funny. He's just really grown on me with his antics.
And I also wondered if adding a black drake would give me more possibility for other color patterns to pop up?

 

[WVduckchick]

Not a great video, but I tried getting the ducks flight in slow motion.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Not a great video, but I tried getting the ducks flight in slow motion.

I thought it was neat!

 

[Pyxis]

Ya I would like to have more black Bibb babies. And I just think he is super cute and funny. He's just really grown on me with his antics.
And I also wondered if adding a black drake would give me more possibility for other color patterns to pop up?

Black is kind of your bare bones basic type of color. It means he doesn't have any blue dilution genes, and that he's got at least one extended black gene, which is what makes him black, maybe two. Depending on who the parents are, he might also carry e+ or "not black" (can't remember what drakes are his possible fathers). There would be a possibility that he could carry other things, but you don't have those things in your flock so he can't be carrying anything else. So basically what you can expect from him duckling-wise are more black babies, some blue babies if he's bred to a blue or silver duck, and if he does carry an e+ gene then potentially some grey babies and blue fawn babies. But that's really it.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Black is kind of your bare bones basic type of color. It means he doesn't have any blue dilution genes, and that he's got at least one extended black gene, which is what makes him black, maybe two. Depending on who the parents are, he might also carry e+ or "not black" (can't remember what drakes are his possible fathers). There would be a possibility that he could carry other things, but you don't have those things in your flock so he can't be carrying anything else. So basically what you can expect from him duckling-wise are more black babies, some blue babies if he's bred to a blue or silver duck, and if he does carry an e+ gene then potentially some grey babies and blue fawn babies. But that's really it.

Dad would've been blue fawn. All the other drakes were too young and not breeding yet.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I'll try to get some better pictures of both so we can look at body type. But of course the black one is still young So it's hard to know for sure but he seems to have a more round compact body style than the pastel.