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

[Stormview]

yeah i would love it if all the colours were excepted..
maybe we should push for all bibed colours to be excepted....
i was hoping to eventurly run a silver drake and a few blue and silver girls so i would get 50% of each blue and silver in the ducklings..
i think i should get 100% silver if i mate silver to silver...
silver is my favorite

 

[Stormview]

if there is anyone out there in australia who can sell me som e swedish eggs it would be much appreciated

or maybe interested in trading fertile eggs down the track....

 

[Evelle]

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I agree!!
I think it's my favorite also

just gorgeous!!!

 

[cmr]

Stormview, your silver is so pretty I want one. Maybe I'lll get adrake so I can have some silvers to.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Rust Swedish----

Blue Swedish

 

[70%cocoa]

DBH, what do you mean 'rust Swedish'? Your blue is a very dark blue. Never seen one so dark. Very interesting!

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

70%cocoa :

DBH, what do you mean 'rust Swedish'? Your blue is a very dark blue. Never seen one so dark. Very interesting!

Rust is a Black duck with a modifying gene that adds Brown patterns to the plumage in females (look at her wing-bar (speculaum)), and it works differently in males, so I've been told, but I've never seen a Rust Drake. Rust can be applied to any Black-based color, with a naming scheme like this: Blue Rust, Chocolate Rust, Llac Rust, etc.
In every book and resourse, I've read that sunlight fades Blue. If Dawn-Dark exposure for 6 months didn't fade it, I guess I'm safe!

She is not a cross.​

 

[Evelle]

WOW!!! ive never seen that before!!
thank you so much for sharing your birds with us!!

 

[70%cocoa]

Interesting. She is a beautiful duck. Here, any brown in the feathers in a Swedish is considered to be a major fault. It's also referred to as 'rust'. It can appear as they age. I haven't seen it in the wings though - mainly on the breast and shoulders. Different genes at work, I'd say.

Blue does fade in the sun - it gets a dirty brown tinge (not due to brown genes). Whe they moult again they return to full blue.

 

[Oregon Blues]

[[[[......She is not a cross......]]]]]

She's not a purebred Swedish, either. So if she isn't Swedish and she's not a cross, she is some other breed.