Showing off Blue! *Pictures*

[tia]

Very nice - he is certainly looking at you. Makes me want some Calls.

 

[duckluck]

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I don't have any other blues at all, so I can't help but wonder if he is changing color as part of a molt. He started out very blue.

 

[priss]

I looooove him! He can be any colour he wants lol!

 

[javajanie]

He's beautiful! I'm thinking my next ducks will be a pair of calls!

 

[lovesduckies]

omg he is the cutest little thing!!!

 

[CityChicker]

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I don't have any other blues at all, so I can't help but wonder if he is changing color as part of a molt. He started out very blue.

He could have come from a number of different colors, not necessarily just Blue. Several other colors carry blue dilution. For example, Butters carry two blue dilution genes, so every offspring would have at least one blue regardless of what the other parent was.

 

[chickensioux]

So precious!

 

[ducklover15]

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I couldn't agree more!

 

[duckluck]

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I don't have any other blues at all, so I can't help but wonder if he is changing color as part of a molt. He started out very blue.

He could have come from a number of different colors, not necessarily just Blue. Several other colors carry blue dilution. For example, Butters carry two blue dilution genes, so every offspring would have at least one blue regardless of what the other parent was.

This guy popped up as a sport from when all my ducks were together at the beginning of the season before they were established in their breeding pens, so I am guessing it would be the black drake crossed on a white hen. The only other color I had in with them at the time were grays. I almost kept him as a personal pet but I already have enough of those, so I thought it would be better for him to have a home with more personalized attention, which I am happy to say I think ducklover15 has given him.

He's our only blue baby so far, and might be our only one unless I get a pair of blues...I have breeding pens and enough space now to keep the drakes and hens separated unless they are set up in the groups I want them to breed in. I am looking right now for a pair of self-blues without bibs but the guy I thought I had lined up for a pair did not get any hatched this year, so it's back to inquiring.

 

[CityChicker]

He sure is pretty. It must be that your white carries Blue, probably Bibbed, and possibly other genes. You can always take a White bird and pair it to a pure Grey to find out what other colors the White carries (and potentially if the Grey carries recessive genes as well). Good luck the birds! I love Self-Blue too, but don't see them for sale very often.