The Quack Shack

[Magnolia Ducks]

Does anybody know about quilts on here or a resource. My dh baby quilt I would like to pass down to our niece but after being in the closet for 60 years its a bit musty.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I wonder if you could put it in the dryer with one of those sheets that are for dry cleaning?

 

[Canadian Wind]

You have a blind chicken? One of my Muscovy is blind in one eye(hawk). I can’t imagine . Do you have her set up so she knows her way around with out getting lost or eaten?

I just figured it out yesterday. She's been inside with me for the past week or two, because she wouldn't leave the coop. I figured she was being picked on for some reason.

When I took her and the bantam Cochin that she's living with out for a bit of fresh air and roaming, she refused to move, even when the ducks approached. That's when it clicked in.

Both her and the Cochin are in a bin in my place, and once we get my new rooster out of the secondary mini-coop, I'll be setting things up for her. These are my daughter's and grandson's birds, btw. Which I take care of. *sigh*

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Does anybody know about quilts on here or a resource. My dh baby quilt I would like to pass down to our niece but after being in the closet for 60 years its a bit musty.

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Try this thread. These guys are very knowledgable

 

[Canadian Wind]

Does anybody know about quilts on here or a resource. My dh baby quilt I would like to pass down to our niece but after being in the closet for 60 years its a bit musty.

Hang it out in the sunshine. It will kill any mould particles and refresh it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I just figured it out yesterday. She's been inside with me for the past week or two, because she wouldn't leave the coop. I figured she was being picked on for some reason.

When I took her and the bantam Cochin that she's living with out for a bit of fresh air and roaming, she refused to move, even when the ducks approached. That's when it clicked in.

Both her and the Cochin are in a bin in my place, and once we get my new rooster out of the secondary mini-coop, I'll be setting things up for her. These are my daughter's and grandson's birds, btw. Which I take care of. *sigh*

Well, at least you are taking care of them. Poor little hen that has to be super scary to be prey and not be able to see. And she has a buddy too. That is awesome.

Always lots of work to do when we have critters.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Hang it out in the sunshine. It will kill any mould particles and refresh it.

I'm afraid to do that as given how old it is it will quickly fade in the sun. Wunda sent me to a quilting group here. You can get everything here.

 

[Pyxis]

I know and you are.very good at it I feel bad cause I just can't get it. I had this drake
View attachment 3247622And this henView attachment 3247623The one on the right. And got 5 white hens and one grey bibbed that drake only threw one fawn and white like him off the same hen.

Okay. Got a little busy with work but now I'm ready to tackle this, lol.

So the male is fawn and white? And, looks like you bred him with another pied bird, who looks to be lilac pied?

Anyway, on to what I can answer, if you got five all white hens that means both of them are carrying one copy of white. So about half of all their offspring together would be white, roughly. The one fawn and white could happen, because both are chocolate, and both parents are pied, and mom is blue so she can pass the required blue gene on to offspring, so that all makes sense. Mom would also need to be Dusky or carrying dusky, since Fawn requires the dusky gene. Again, very possible.

So what you should be looking at duckling-wise from them are:

Whites
Blue pieds
Silver Pieds
Possibly Lilac/Lavender Pieds
Fawn and white

The hen is his daughter. His mom was pekin and dad was fawn and white runner. The hen is also his granddaughter

This all also makes sense. The drake inherited white from his pekin mom, then also passed it to this hen, his daughter.

I can't tell from the picture if he is actually fawn and white or just blue fawn pied. If he is fawn, his pekin mom would have to have been chocolate, which she could have been. He might also just be blue fawn pied and carrying one copy of chocolate. You can tell better than me since you see him in person, haha, so I'll go with he's fawn and white.

He would have inherited a copy of the Dusky gene from his dad, and again maybe one from his mom, you never really can tell with whites. He could have passed that to his daughter.

I can't tell if the daughter is Lilac or Blue Fawn from the picture, but if Dad is Fawn and White, she'd have to be Lilac, so we'll go with that. That means she's Chocolate.

He also passed the blue gene to his daughter, which he got from his Fawn and White Father, so that also tracks.

So going with all that info, you can expect these ducklings:

White
Fawn And White
Lilac Mallard and Lavender Mallard Pied
Dusky Lilac Mallard Pied

Now that could be wrong if the genetics are wrong. Like for instance if the drake isn't actually Fawn and White and is instead Lilac Pied, which could also be a result of a Pekin crossed with a Fawn and White Runner, then that would change things.

Like for instance when you said you got a gray bibbed duckling, do you mean a blue bibbed one, like a blue swedish? Because that would answer the question of if he's Fawn and White or Lilac Pied.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Blue bibbed. Like blue swedish. As a juvenile he was fawn and white. But as an adult I would probably say Lilac pied. As he was mostly gray with black head. Unfortunately he was killed by dogs. His off spring that I still have are white or blue bibbed except for one little girl that's Saxony colored including the eye stripes???

 

[Canadian Wind]

Okay. Got a little busy with work but now I'm ready to tackle this, lol.

Loved this! But I can see how it would be confusing. I know genetics from when I used to breed lovebirds, and was able to transfer that knowledge to ducks. Without that, I would have been lost in this, lol!