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

[subhanalah]

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

I did not provide that link.

Here is the correct information.

What is pertinent to this conversation is BOLDED

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.

 

[farmgirl360]

Yes 50/50 but it could have it

 

[subhanalah]

Yes 50/50 but it could have it

no, that is only if you breed a crested duck to a non-crested duck.

 

[farmgirl360]

Yes I understand but if it does breed itself with the other litter mate if it has the gene and doesn't show it

 

[subhanalah]

Yes I understand but if it does breed itself with the other litter mate if it has the gene and doesn't show it

please read it again. It is impossible for the duck to have the gene unless it has a crest.

 

[subhanalah]

Yes I understand but if it does breed itself with the other litter mate if it has the gene and doesn't show it

can you show us some pictures of your ducks?

 

[KristiKaty]

So hard to say with genetics! My 'White' duck is a leucistic Swedish. I would have sworn she was a pekin, but here are pics of her 7 babies. The drake is a Khaki Campbell. Christian could be a mix, or part leucistic - I have learned that 15% of swedish are born yellow or yellowish and are missing at least some pigmentation. Also, a pair of mallards at my lake had 2 total white babies one year, so????? All I can say is that you have cute ducks

...And yes that is an ashtray - it was cheaper than a plastic bowl and right size for brooder

The ashtray is a great idea by the way! And your Swedes are gorgeous! Are they all black?

We just had a Black Swedish born this morning... Our 3rd Swedish born to a mom and dad Mallard. The first two were Blue. Now we finally have a Black Swedish!

He's a beauty!! LOVE my surprise Swedes!!







He's a squirmy little thing! It was very hard to get him to hold still long enough to to get a good picture. His bib folds all the way under his belly, which I know is out of specs. He has the yellow on his face that I don't remember the other two having. But then, even 100% Swedish are hard to perfect. I wonder what will happen if this is a male and he has babies with Tetsin next Spring! SO curious!

 

[KristiKaty]

I was told this little girl ( R.i.p ) looked like a Swedish duckling , however she's not she's a Cayuga Rouen mix with mallard on the Cayuga side . Her sibling had even more yellow from under the bill to expanding of the chest ( r.i.p )


sadly both did die the first from I hate to say me but she crawled into bed with me and you know what happened I cried for weeks , still very upset . The second was pre mature sorry I don't have a pic of it .

Who told you that is definitely not a Swedish? Looks like a Black Swedish to me. My two mallards had 2 Blue Swedish and 1 Black Swedish, and that's just the ones that hatched in my daughter's make-shift incubator. They are ducks from the wild and I suppose they must be carrying a Swedish gene in there somewhere.

 

[bird9]

He is a doll! I love the yellow on face

Out of 7 ducklings we had 5 black drakes and 2 brown ducks. Papa Drake is the Khaki Campbell in my avatar. We hatched Swedish Campbells

 

[buff goose guy]

I knwo its not i cant be its maother is a cayuga and the father a rouen i bred it myself to try to get a swedish looking duck