What are these Official colours called / colour genetics?

[IrisJade]

Wondering to know the colour official names. And if anyone has had these dark drakes mate with a White duck what their ducklings colour would be? mixed? or Inherited the male most likely?

 

[cheezenkwackers]

The drake on the left appears to be a Khaki which is brown dusky. The drake on the right is black (a Cayuga?). Did they come from a hatchery (or feed store)?

Your white hen could have anything under the white. White is a gene which basically means do not add any color. But, white ducks still carry other genes. Many Pekins have black with a white bib. If that is the case with yours, ducklings with the first drake would be black with a white bib or solid brown (chocolate) with a white bib. The babies would be sex-linked and all of the black would be boys, girls brown. Again, if your Pekin has black with a white bib under the white, and she has ducklings with the Cayuga, all the duckling would be black with a white bib. Unfortunately, you cannot really know what what your female has under that white until she has ducklings.

 

[Jenbirdee]

The drake on the left appears to be a Khaki which is brown dusky. The drake on the right is black (a Cayuga?). Did they come from a hatchery (or feed store)?

Your white hen could have anything under the white. White is a gene which basically means do not add any color. But, white ducks still carry other genes. Many Pekins have black with a white bib. If that is the case with yours, ducklings with the first drake would be black with a white bib or solid brown (chocolate) with a white bib. The babies would be sex-linked and all of the black would be boys, girls brown. Again, if your Pekin has black with a white bib under the white, and she has ducklings with the Cayuga, all the duckling would be black with a white bib. Unfortunately, you cannot really know what what your female has under that white until she has ducklings.

that’s amazing

 

[Canadian Wind]

that’s amazing

Genetics are fun!

 

[relicshunter]

I don't do Khaki's and I seen to recall the carry the brown dilute gene. Yes there are a couple genes that can be set up to the right drake over the right hen color where the offspring with be sexable by color. This gene is one of them. You need two copies of it to express the color in a drake and only one copy to express in a hen. That is how the sexing at hatch would work. If it is not set up right it won't work. Pekins are a whole different picture. They are basically genetically a bunch of genes all reducing color out of the bird together in combination. Lots of reduce pattern and reduce color, add bib, and patches all lined up to make it white. One chink in the armor and you no longer get a white bird. So breeding any non white bird to a pekin crumbles the armor and the other colors come out. The most common look that is produced is a bibbed bird similar to a Swedish but not as refined. It all depends on what the non Pekin bird is and what genes show easiest in a mixed bird. The mixes can look very much like another breed just popped out (like a Swedish)but they are not that breed merly by looking like it. I had a peautiful trio of runner pekin mixes that could have passed for Ancona but I knew they were not and they did not breed true to their look because of being mixes.