Silver East Indies Duck

[Miss Lydia]

So gorgeous

 

[Amer]

Splash East Indies update. (Splash seems to work better because everyone so far when I say silver assumes that all Blues can create Silver and that's just not how this gene works in the Indies.)

The female is average Black East Indies size the male is big though. I will be working on their size in future breedings.

There are only 2 now because I gave the 2nd male to my friend who "lent" me her East Indie that started me down this path. (I say lent but really I just kept it safe while she was dealing with predator issues. In return i got to use her for a breeding season)
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Wow! Just discovered this thread, looks like a spontaneous mutation. Interesting how it lets the phaomelanin show through, I haven’t seen a gene like that in ducks. It reminds me (sort of) of dominant white. Also, that is the most bright orange I’ve seen on a duck. Buffs tend to be more fawn, imo. I wonder what a little selection could do to bring out that orange splashing. Orange splash.
@nicalandia

 

[Amer]

It sounds to me like two mutations. The recessive blue one and maybe the male carried a second allele that combined with the blue allele would create this splash? It seems unlikely to have two spontaneous mutations happen at once…

 

[Repticake]

So I hatched out a bunch out this year just playing around to see who carries what genes. This is my grow out pen so ignore the fact that there's other random birds in there. I'm waiting for everyone to be full grown before I decide who stays because they're so wildly different in pattern and I would also like to make sure they aren't larger like the male i hatched out last year, I want to keep them nice and small. I figured I'd come back here and share with you guys and also show two really cool ones that hatched out

 

[Repticake]

So the first really cool one that hatched out was both blue and splash.

 

[Repticake]

The second cool one is a splash that has almost no white on it and is showing the complete pattern that's underneath the splashes. As I have more and more splash I can see random spots of this color but it's really cool to see one that shows almost zero white feathers.

 

[Amer]

The second cool one is a splash that has almost no white on it and is showing the complete pattern that's underneath the splashes. As I have more and more splash I can see random spots of this color but it's really cool to see one that shows almost zero white feathers.

That one looks like pastel.
That means it inherited two copies of the non extended black gene and some of your birds are not pure for extended black. Also it has the wild type mallard pattern gene. Do you think one of your birds crossbred?

So the first really cool one that hatched out was both blue and splash.

That is not splash, your bird isn’t expressing extended black completely which is allowing for a white bib pattern.
Dusky+extended black gives a solid color while
Wild type+extended black gives a bibbed color.
This bird may be heterozygous for mallard.

 

[Amer]

Other than East Indies, what breeds do you have?
I think the pastel may be a crossbred and some of your birds are impure for extended black but dusky is recessive so I don’t necessarily think your birds are crossbreeds, except maybe far in their background.

 

[Repticake]

That one looks like pastel.
That means it inherited two copies of the non extended black gene and some of your birds are not pure for extended black. Also it has the wild type mallard pattern gene. Do you think one of your birds crossbred?

That is not splash, your bird isn’t expressing extended black completely which is allowing for a white bib pattern.
Dusky+extended black gives a solid color while
Wild type+extended black gives a bibbed color.
This bird may be heterozygous for mallard.

No all birds are originally from black east indies birds. No other ducks where owned at the time of creating their parents and their parents are separated in breeder pens.

 

[Repticake]

Other than East Indies, what breeds do you have?
I think the pastel may be a crossbred and some of your birds are impure for extended black but dusky is recessive so I don’t necessarily think your birds are crossbreeds, except maybe far in their background.

The only way they could have been crossed is if the Black East Indies that came from duck creak farms had something in them.