Tri-colored duck..........Do you have one?

[krazycricket21]

I have a drake and hen (both Muscovy) that are tri colored.
The drake is lavender and white barred with tan/brown penciling between the bars.
The hen is the same but black and white (no lavender).

 

[AuroraSprings]

We have some tri-colored Anconas. We hatch them out pretty regularly.

Mostly we get Lavender/Chocolate or Blue/Chocolate. I'd like to get a silver/blue.

 

[Olive Hill]

Hmmm, in duck genetics does a black head and a grey body with white markings count when it's clear the duck is really just a white marked blue? Doesn't seem like it should. The duck isn't tri colored it's blue and white, just because blue presents as two "colors" to the eye, doesn't make the duck's genetics anything but blue and white.

That's like people in the horse world who advertise their "tri color paints" and what they really have is a bay paint. Just because the white broke up the brown body color from the black points doesn't make the horse tri color, it's still a bay.

 

[Goat_Walker]

I did end up getting some tri colored to hatch, and all right as i had to sell off my ducks.HORRIBLE timing. -

trey, my old crested drake.

Sadly these have all gone to new homes

I did have a GORGEOUS duckling that was born with a deformity but would have been the most beautiful duck i have ever seen.

Imagine this :

Blue and white pied body, black face mask, and a huge blue crest.

 

[CityChicker]

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I understand what you are saying and yes, you are right. Most of the time when people post pictures of tricolors, they are not *really* technically tricolor. The birds just have the illusion of tricolor because of the broken pattern. It is hard to envision, but I will try to explain...

One of the only ways to really get a true tricolor would be to mix the foundation of two different color series, for example Extended Black (which is the basis obviously for Black, Blue, Silver, Chocolate, etc...) to Wild-type. In fact, that is really probably about the only situation in which you could really even discern the true tricolor. You could mix Extended Black with something from the Dusky series as well, but it would be harder to see the color. Anyway, the first example is about the only way to really get an obvious tricolor as you would see the White, the Extended Black based color, and then the color leaking through the Extended Black since the bird would be E/e.

Anconas are really the only duck that you would want to see tricolor in and if you know how Anconas are created, it is obvious why some would be tricolor. Really, I think the majority of tricolor Anconas though are the result of Black-based to Dusky-based, so I suppose that should be kept in mind. The color would just be more vivd and easy to see in Wild type to E/E. If the true Ancona genotype is supposed to be E/e (which makes little to no sense if you know anything about genetics and the typical Ancona colors), you would also have to be either A. Crossing continuously back to a color that is not Black (e/e) or B. Taking the 25% e/e birds from E/e to E/e matings and crossing them back to birds that are pure for Extended Black (E/E). Anyway, that is probably more of an in-depth explanation than needed, but once I start explaining something, I can't help myself. LOL.