Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[JulieNKC]

70%cocoa :

I agree that, out of the possible candidates, those are the parents - Cayuga/Buff male and Khaki female. Silver is not possible with that combination. But your duckling could easily be lilac. Could also be blue (but my money is on lilac). Should be really pretty!!!

Does lilac look the same in mallard derived ducks as muscovies? I goodle lilac duck and all I found were muscovies and flowers, lol.
Duckling is out of the incubator. She is moving around well enough to bowl with the quail eggs, I don't want her to knock over the goose eggs.

Duckling number 2 is out of the shell. Looks black, but isn't fluffy so who knows. It has yellow stripes by his eyes.​

 

[country_girl011]

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Does lilac look the same in mallard derived ducks as muscovies? I goodle lilac duck and all I found were muscovies and flowers, lol.
Duckling is out of the incubator. She is moving around well enough to bowl with the quail eggs, I don't want her to knock over the goose eggs.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68502_p1060778.jpg
Duckling number 2 is out of the shell. Looks black, but isn't fluffy so who knows. It has yellow stripes by his eyes.

so cute

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Does lilac look the same in mallard derived ducks as muscovies? I goodle lilac duck and all I found were muscovies and flowers, lol.
Duckling is out of the incubator. She is moving around well enough to bowl with the quail eggs, I don't want her to knock over the goose eggs.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68502_p1060778.jpg
Duckling number 2 is out of the shell. Looks black, but isn't fluffy so who knows. It has yellow stripes by his eyes.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

GUYS! my WH drake, and 1 of the WH hens were mating today

i should have eggs soon then, right?! he was kinda confused and was biteing her at first but eventually figured it out

all the hens were "excitable" this morning, except one of the mature hens, shes always been weird though.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Does lilac look the same in mallard derived ducks as muscovies? I goodle lilac duck and all I found were muscovies and flowers, lol.
Duckling is out of the incubator. She is moving around well enough to bowl with the quail eggs, I don't want her to knock over the goose eggs.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68502_p1060778.jpg
Duckling number 2 is out of the shell. Looks black, but isn't fluffy so who knows. It has yellow stripes by his eyes.

that one looks like it came from your ancona.

the other "sounds" like it came from your khaki.

 

[70%cocoa]

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Does lilac look the same in mallard derived ducks as muscovies? I goodle lilac duck and all I found were muscovies and flowers, lol.
Duckling is out of the incubator. She is moving around well enough to bowl with the quail eggs, I don't want her to knock over the goose eggs.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68502_p1060778.jpg
Duckling number 2 is out of the shell. Looks black, but isn't fluffy so who knows. It has yellow stripes by his eyes.

I don't know how lilac works in Mussies but Storey's Guide says a bit about it. I'll have a read.

Ok, looking at book now. Interesting that in Storey's Guide, for Mallard derived ducks one dose of blue = lavender but two doses = lilac. It's labelled the other way round in the duck calculator (ie one dose of blue is called Lilac) . Not very helpful!! I'd say you have a duckling with one dose of blue. Not possible to have two doses if you have no duck with blue in her.

Looking at info on Muscovy lavender now. No, not at all the same as it is in Mallard derived ducks. Lavender in Mussies is formed in the same way as it is in chickens - two doses of a recessive Lavender gene combined with black.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

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YaY!!! That's awesome!!!

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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YaY!!! That's awesome!!!

I KNOW!!! i hope they start laying this month that way they are laying a bit before i set

QJ, did you get ur holderreads order in yet?! what did you get?!

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

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YaY!!! That's awesome!!!

I KNOW!!! i hope they start laying this month that way they are laying a bit before i set

QJ, did you get ur holderreads order in yet?! what did you get?!

Well, when my dad said I could put what I wanted out there.. I started focusing on chickens. Then I got really interested with the whole genetics thing.. So I think i will increase my mallards over the spring/summer, get my chickens all set up, and then see where I'm at. I kinda needed to choose one thing to focus on and I chose the chicken side of things for now.

 

[critterrun]

ok guy



my temps went crazy last night (I think)

5 thermo all differnt readings

so we put in a meat thermo from the BBQ

I think my temps where OK after all

so I candled tonight sorry had to look

17 out of 20 still good

the 3 bad did not look good at the first candle so I removed them tonight

so so far so good