The khaki-Campbell duck Thread !!!!!!!!

[DuckDuckDuckGoose]

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She is 16days old today! I love her so much, she has the best personality!
T.

 

[70%cocoa]

I just wanted to comment on the black bibbed ducks that are being produced out of khakis. This colour pattern can't come from Khakis alone - black is dominant and bibs are dominant (although there is a recessive bib gene too but let's ignore that for the moment). If either black or bibbed genes were in the Khakis then the Khakis would not look like Khakis! So it is not coming from the Khakis.

So I agree that the Pekin drake is sneaking in. A Pekin drake is white, obviously, but this is from two doses of a recessive gene ('recessive white') that hides any other colour. So the white Pekin is carrying black and bibbed genes (you just can't see it as it's masked by the recessive white). Because he is carrying these otherwise dominant genes underneath the white his offspring can turn out black with bibs. ]

If your Khakis were also carrying one dose of recessive white then some of them may turn out white. The Khakis would only have one dose - if they had two they would be white.

Breeding a white bird to any other colour is always a lottery - you don't know what they'll produce as you don't know what the white is hiding.

 

[MjChickens]

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She is 16days old today! I love her so much, she has the best personality!
T.

I am new to ducks and mine look a little like the one in the picture. Now I am wondering what you mean by sex linked. Does that mean that these KC are the lower producing KC?

 

[maralynn28]

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She is 16days old today! I love her so much, she has the best personality!
T.

I am new to ducks and mine look a little like the one in the picture. Now I am wondering what you mean by sex linked. Does that mean that these KC are the lower producing KC?

Sex-linked character means that you wouldn't have to vent sex the newly hatched duckling, because the sex is distinguished by appearance (looking at down). For example a Khaki Campbell drake mated with a Dark Campbell hen would result in the male ducklings being gray and the female ducklings being brownish. I am guessing this was the situation with my ducklings because while they looked the same, one was noticeably grayer while the other was much darker. I wasn't sure if it was just variation in colors or if I had two different breeds. If I had known this, I would have chosen only darker brown ducklings hoping my chance of having females would have been higher.
Just for clarification, not all KC are sex linked...but they can be.

 

[MjChickens]

So there are different shades of brown for KC's..

 

[DuckDuckDuckGoose]

IM SO UPSET RIGHT NOW!

My DH and I took Coco(kc 16days) and Pendleton(the 17day gos.) Out for their evening slug fest with the 7mo. Pekins, and we where watching something the pekins were doing (they were all in front of us, I turned around and picked something up at this time my DH turned my way and took a step and the Coco ran right under his foot as he was setting it down and he crushed her pretty good,he didn't put his full weight down and he didn't kill her she has a tear under her wing and the lil bone is visible. DH is beside himself, and I feel so bad for her too. She is not herself right now, and im so afraid im gonna lose her. the wound is under her wing and it bled but is not bleeding now. She has pooped and drank a lil bit of water. I have them covered in a nice quiet place now, and I really am hoping she will be ok. Just don't know what to think?
Anyone have any thoughts? (she is also peepin back and forth with her buddy)

Prayers please


Thanks,
T.

 

[70%cocoa]

Well, there's Khaki Campbell and there's Dark Campbell. Dark Campbells have dark pencilling (lines) on their feathers. Overall they appear much darker in colour than the Khakis. The difference is that Khakis have a brown dilution gene that makes them much lighter, plus ideally they should be a much more even colour overall. The brown dilution gene is sex linked, so females have one dose and males have two doses.

Basically, with sex linked colour genes, you need:
1. A male with a double dose (homozygous) of the recessive version of the gene (carried on the Z chromosome, of which drakes have two, so that's how he can have two doses of the recessive gene) - i.e. a Khaki Campbell drake
2. A female with the dominant version of the gene (as it is carried on the Z chromosome and she only has one Z chromasome she will only have one dose of this gene) - i.e. a Dark Campbell hen.

All the female offspring will be Khaki Campbells. All the male offspring will be Dark Campbells.

Edit - I am really sorry to hear about your duckling. All is not lost though. Birds can heal up very well from injuries. Does she need to see a vet?

 

[MjChickens]

I am so sorry. I think that if you give her a couple days that maybe(

) she will snap out of it. Hopefully with time she will get better.

 

[DuckDuckDuckGoose]

TY MJ- I really hope she is goin be ok physically and Mentally.
t.

 

[Totes Quackers]

Totally love my Khaki Campbell 'Hendrix'... was sure Hendrix was a girl, however the quack is dry and raspy so yep Hendrix is a he..
Hendrix is 15 weeks old today!!!
Here is Hendrix in his egg...

Hendrix waving 'hello' at 2 weeks old...

This is Hendrix at 6ish weeks...