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You get a duck that is chocolate all over when you have a black duck and you add the chocolate gene, which is recessive and sex linked. The recessive sex linked bit means that boy ducks can only have and only need one dose to make them chocolate. Girl ducks must have two doses of chocolate.
What is the end result that you're after and what do you have to work with?
Let's hypothetically move this over to chickens... hypothetically of course. I have a black hen right now, I'm trying to figure out how to get blue. I will have a lavender roo and hen. I'm trying to do research to see what I need to add to the flock to get what I want. Which is choc. But it seems I might need a black and a blue for that combo.
And I realize that was all put rather elementary-ish.
I have been doing tons of research on chicken genetics. I'm pretty excited that I understood everything you said, and actually read something on that earlier today. Woo Hoo!
Except note that I originally wrote the required doses the wrong way round. Boys need two. Girls need one.
Chocolate will work the same with chickens. Chocolate is nothing to do with blue though.
