No. You should have seen the poor thing in the spring molt. She looked positively plucked. I KNOW corn makes them molt harder, but they love it as a treat and I can't help myself; when they wag their tails I give in and throw the corn in the grass for them to hunt it. But, I was really hoping that someone else had, or was working on, true splash Muscovy. Not random black feathers but the little splash marks. On the big picture you can see that she has larger splash marks here and there, but the little marks are pretty evenly dispersed over the body of the bird. I like either variation, but mine are trending towards smaller marks.
I'd love to trade some notes on the relation of the splash to the self blue gene and whether or not any other combination is getting the splash. I have blue splash, cream splash, and light lavender splash. I'm fairly sure you can only get splash with self blue. But, in mine the splash marks are shrinking over the generations and I'd like to know if anyone has figured out how to keep the marks a little larger. Well, to be honest, I'd like to know if anyone else has splash at All.
Dot.
