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

[70%cocoa]

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What do you mean?

A number of breeds here are 're-creations' (since we have not been able to import poultry for decades) so sometimes they throw back to whatever was put into them to create them.

I think that colour genes are very unstable - that's why there are so many colour forms in chickens and ducks. They mutate easily.

May I point out that you're the one with the green chick

 

[Evelle]

70%cocoa :

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this was me thinking out loud

What do you mean?

A number of breeds here are 're-creations' (since we have not been able to import poultry for decades) so sometimes they throw back to whatever was put into them to create them.

I think that colour genes are very unstable - that's why there are so many colour forms in chickens and ducks. They mutate easily.

May I point out that you're the one with the green chick

LOL!!!!

yes i do

i have an old school mate that moved over there and she sends me pictures of birds.. cuz she knows i love them all kinds and forms
i just thought that was interesting and also there is a thread here for color mutations.. i could be wrong but i think she lives in australla also.. and wants to see pictures of waterfowl color mutations
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=586610
i bet she would love to see pictures of your white sweed

im learning lots about aussi she said it has lizards like we have flys

that would be so cool!!!
i would really love to go visit some day.
oh okay i see.. color is a very complicating aspect for breed. i think.​

 

[70%cocoa]

Thanks for the link to the colour mutatin thread - just fantastic! I love the blue and splash versions of the black swans. We have many many black swans on a lake near my home but ive never seen a colour variant.

The white Swedish is more the product of known recessive genes due to a cross with Aylesbury ducks way back when. So, not really a spontaneous mutation.. She is kind of a creamy white, like an Aylesbury. Pretty.

 

[hcppam]

Woot Abagael DUCK! my swedish.

 

[Evelle]

70%cocoa :

Thanks for the link to the colour mutatin thread - just fantastic! I love the blue and splash versions of the black swans. We have many many black swans on a lake near my home but ive never seen a colour variant.

The white Swedish is more the product of known recessive genes due to a cross with Aylesbury ducks way back when. So, not really a spontaneous mutation.. She is kind of a creamy white, like an Aylesbury. Pretty.

ohhhhhh lol oopps

I love that one too!! i dont like black swans i was bit by a pair by a near by pond where i use to live. i was about 5 and to this day i dont trust them lol.
well none the less i love her!! she is just beautiful..​

 

[Garrisonkidsduo2]

Well My neighbors got a duck her mom was a Pekin duck and her dad was a Blue Crested Swedish Duck

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...1855692491759.74870.1824261821&type=3&theater

She got a blue bill and feet. Her babies are

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...1855692491759.74870.1824261821&type=3&theater

This picture shows her three daughters, the two blue ones, and the white one that has the spots on her bill she is right on the edge of the picture. The male to my baby ducks is the one white pekin that has a bright orange bill. I will post pictures soon my baby just hatched out and he wasn't due until the 23rd. He is adorable and wet right now but I hope he makes it.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

Wow. That white with the blue bill is extremely pretty!

 

[70%cocoa]

That white duck with the blue bill is splash or silver in colour. Not technically 'white' in a genetic sense in the way a Pekin is white. She has two doses of blue dilution. Her Pekin mother must have been carrying the blue gene.

Blue bill is also carrying recessive white from her mother, the Pekin, and has passed it to one of her offspring (ie the white one who has also inherited recessive white from Dad, therefore turning out white herself).

Here's a splash Swedish - same colouring as the blue billed girl. So light in colour you can't tell anything about her bib or flight feathers.

 

[Garrisonkidsduo2]

Oh okay I am not sure what her parents had in them My neighbor who had her parents bought them from a breeder in Missouri so she was going on what they said. If they had anything else in them then they need to check their flocks. Oh well I think they are pretty and very unique so I am hatching some out to keep and eat eggs from. The baby duck is doing better still kind of worried that he is to early and might not make it. I will hopefully wake up in the morning and find my little fluffy black baby alive and well and moving around. He seems to have a lot of fight in him. I just hope he makes it. Please pray for the baby. I will post pictures if he fluffs up and makes it.

 

[70%cocoa]

Pure bred Pekins are not meant to have any blue dilution genes at all (they are meant to be pure wild type but with two recessive white genes) but a white bird like a Pekin can in reality hide just about anything. Two white genes will mask everything else. Most Pekins are probably hiding a heap of different random colour genes. It never appears until you mate them to a non-white bird.

I hope your little duckling does well and continues to grow stronger. Where there's life there's hope.