Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[JulieNKC]

70%cocoa :

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If none of mine develop I give up on my drake and just might have you send me some. I should know in about a week.
I think I've figured out the duck color calculator thing. If my drakes blue swede/welsh harlequin there's about 20 different colors/patterns of duckling I could hatch. If he's blue swede/cayuga I'm going to get all black or blue chicks.

I want different colors of ducklings. Hoping he's swede/WH or I'm gonna need a new drake.

What do you mean, Julie - do you mean you hope your drake is Blue Swedish crossed with a Welsh Harlequin? I guess he looks like a Blue Swedish but you are unsure of his parentage?​

He's a mutt. The lady had WH and cayuga drakes. She had buff, blue swedish, cayuga and WH hens. He was all blue with a bit of a messy bib, although now he's getting green spots on his head and reddish brown in his lacing, so I'm pretty sure swedish is the momma. I just don't know what his daddy was, but I don't want all blue/black babies with my khaki girl and his ducklings since they'll be blue/black from him and my ancona's eggs. So I'm hoping he's a swede/WH so I have colorful babies.
Sorry for rambling, I just took nyquil, lol.
This is all three of them when I first got him.

 

[70%cocoa]

Julie, he could also be Cayuga x Buff (as Buff carries blue).

ps. I know he has a bit of a bib, which points to the Swedish, but I still wouldn't rule out the above possibility.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

SM: I was walking down from the pig pen today with my dog, and went to look in the mailbox and found a card

thanks so much! Sorry I havnt gotten Yalls card cards in yet

my mom wont give me a any $$ to get stamps

so they might be a bit late

thanks again sm for the card. Love the part where you said "may santa come to find all your ducks and chicks fat & happy"

 

[JulieNKC]

70%cocoa :

Julie, he could also be Cayuga x Buff (as Buff carries blue).

ps. I know he has a bit of a bib, which points to the Swedish, but I still wouldn't rule out the above possibility.

That would give me pretty ducklings too, so I wouldn't mind that at all. Do you know if magpie and ancona are the same in the calculator? I've been figuring out what her ducklings might look like and all I could find that fits her in the entries is magpie.

Guess they don't have ancona's over there. http://kippenjungle.nl/kruisingEend.html​

 

[stillmecle]

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I thought you were going to just email them to us? You don't need to mail them to us DG we know how mom's can be, most of us are moms. LOLOLOL

 

[70%cocoa]

I'd say in the duck calulator that an Ancona is equivalent to what's listed as a Mallard Pied - a Mallard with the Runner Pattern genes. They show a brown and white duck in the picture for Mallard Pied but it could just as easily be black or blue instead of the brown. However the genes for this are the same as the genes given for Magpie (the only difference is that the Magpie is shown with Extended Black).

There are probably other genes that modify the black in a Magpie versus a black Ancona, to produce the specific distribution of colour. Not much is known about the genes that modify colours.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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I thought you were going to just email them to us? You don't need to mail them to us DG we know how mom's can be, most of us are moms. LOLOLOL

Nope, I was gonna send em!

and I want to! I actually just spoke with her and she has a few in her purse, and whatever I dont use getting silkie chicks next week (which will be $3

) I will get stamps with

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I'm still waiting on my egg to hatch... just FYI. Was due yesterday. Right right. I think this duckie is running a tad behind schedule.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Just a little bit

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I LOVE how you posted your BYC BFF's!! I'm going to copy if that's okay. LOVE*