Unbelievable! Everybody wants ducks & eggs!

[FenDruadin]

Thanks CityChicker--guess I got lucky on my first year in "the business." I've had ducks three years, but this is the first year selling them or the eggs.

About the blues--a little clarification. I know that Blue (with the capital B) is two black genes with one blue dilution gene (while a silver is a black duck with two dilution genes). I read my Holderread.

But last year, I had ducks hatch out of eggs from a breeding between a Blue drake and a fawn/white hen that came out looking for all the world like "blue," but that grew up to have some brown/chocolate coloring overlaid on the blue. So that's what I mean by the "phenotype" for blue vs. "genotype" for blue. I believe what happens is that the one black gene with the one blue dilution and a brown dilution gene combine to create a very similar color with a slight chocolatey overlay. But the resulting duck, however much it looks "blue" will still carry a brown dilution gene and a single (recessive) Runner pattern gene from the fawn/white parent, plus only one black gene rather than the usual two.

Anyway--thanks for all the congratulations. I am enjoying my ducks very very much, and I love that they are learning to pay for themselves this year.