SWEDISH Duck Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[farmgirl360]

Who said anything about separating them?
You can eat the eggs from her, if it's a her, but don't hatch her eggs.

You say she had a poof on her head when she hatched, that's the crest on ducklings.

Take all of the eggs from them, if they go broody (siting on nest all the time with only short breaks) then buy some fertile muscovy eggs (another species of duck) for her to hatch out.

Using the Punnett Diagram, you are able to predict the percentage of the out
come of any mating, provided that the breeder knows the genes and
background of the birds. The crested duck program is an exciting and
challenging breeding program to undertake. Always remember to toe punch or
mark your ducklings from this type of a breeding program because a duckling
that does not have a crest does not necessarily mean that duckling does not
carry the crested gene. If the bird has superior type and all other desirable
traits, it could certainly be used for your crested mating the following year.

I found this off of faith valley water and fowl

 

[subhanalah]

http://www.metzerfarms.com/Articles/CrestedDucksUnusualBrains.pdf
Also this:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested_duck_(breed)

The domestic Crested Duck is a duckbreed descended from the Mallard. It has its appearance because it is heterozygousfor a genetic mutation causing a deformity of the skull. As a result, when a pair of crested ducks breed, the young sort out in the usual 1-2-1 ratio:-

25% are homozygous for the normal allele of this gene and so have no crest and if bred together their offspring will never have a crest.

50% are heterozygous for this gene and hatch with a crest of varying sizes.

25% are homozygous for the crestedallele of this gene and die from exposedbrain without hatching, as it is lethal in homozygous form.

If a crested duck and a non-crested duck breed together, the resulting ducklings would be expected to be 50% crested and 50% non-crested.

 

[subhanalah]

Using the Punnett Diagram, you are able to predict the percentage of the out
come of any mating, provided that the breeder knows the genes and
background of the birds. The crested duck program is an exciting and
challenging breeding program to undertake. Always remember to toe punch or
mark your ducklings from this type of a breeding program because a duckling
that does not have a crest does not necessarily mean that duckling does not
carry the crested gene. If the bird has superior type and all other desirable
traits, it could certainly be used for your crested mating the following year.

I found this off of faith valley water and fowl

I think the fact that this person finds it fun and exciting shows their clear misunderstanding of the gene.

Why did you post this again after I had already replied to it?

 

[farmgirl360]

Do

I think the fact that this person finds it fun and exciting shows their clear misunderstanding of the gene.

Why did you post this again after I had already replied to it?

doin research and Becuase I remember my science teacher and genes that they can be dominant and don't show I just want to be very cationuas but this proves that

 

[buff goose guy]

Ohh y'all should look at the feather valley waterfowl all they do is breed crested call ducks it's really said they probably have hundreds die in a year .

 

[subhanalah]

Ohh y'all should look at the feather valley waterfowl all they do is breed crested call ducks it's really said they probably have hundreds die in a year .

Also spreading misinformation about the gene.

 

[buff goose guy]

Seriously though that's why some people only breed for the crested gene now ; misinformation

 

[farmgirl360]

Also spreading misinformation about the gene.

Yes but it is a punnet square I have done those so I don't really see what misinformation I have been given

 

[subhanalah]

Yes but it is a punnet square I have done those so I don't really see what misinformation I have been given

I explained it to you in the quote from another source. If the duck doesn't have a crest, it can not "carry" the gene as is stated on that farm website you provided.

 

[farmgirl360]

Always remember to toe punch or
mark your ducklings from this type of a breeding program because a duckling
that does not have a crest does not necessarily mean that duckling does not
carry the crested gene.

That Is from my source that u gave me the link to