What color are these Scovy Ducklings? (lot o'Pics)

[keeperofthehearth]

Can those with Scovies help me w/the color these ducklings are going to be?
The little kind of a khaki colored one on the left?

The light one in the middle - blue?

The large duckling in the front center - Black?

The two light brown and yellow - chocolate & white or ?

Thanks! I think most of my little yellow ones will be barred as juvies but I still don't know if they will be black or blue. Guess the next few weeks will tell.

Do the black bills help w/telling if they will be black feathered?

 

[farmertank]

HI, those are some pretty muscovies.

It's hard to tell sometimes with the babies,beacause they can change quite a bit when they get their adult feathers. I once had a baby that had a white bottom and black top. I figured she would be white and greenish, but when the adult feathers came in she was almost all white with just a few greenish spots.


That being said I'll will try to give you some guesses

pic 1: you have a lighter one in the back with a brownish head. She(I'll say she, but I don't really know) should be either grey with a darker brown-maybe black head and a lighter chest.
The dark one in the back will have a white chest and black or greenish feathers like the mother? in pic 3. The 2 in the front of pic 1 it's hard to see, but I would say also black-greenish bodies with a lighter black,maybe brown head.

pic2: It could be white and blue, but it's seems to me that it's going to be more of a grey.

pic3: yes black-greenish in the light and white.


pic4: I don't think you have true Chocolates. I think they will have a brown tint in the light, but will be mostly black and white.

There bills mean nothing, unless they are a solid dark color alot of times their bills will be white with black spots on them

here is a grey and white.

here's ferdi at the stage of yours

Ferdi(rip) as an adult

this was Hershey as a baby, a true chocolate, she was wet from her bath

Hershey(rip) with her babies-none will be true chocolates

I hope this helps some. please keep us updated as they grow.


Julie

 

[MDC]

It appears to me that they'll be blues and blacks. What color are the parents?

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Thanks Farmer,
I just found an article that says that the yellow w/colored tails tips will feather out as barred and after molt will feather out in the color of the tail tips.

It appears to me that they'll be blues and blacks. What color are the parents?

Parents are Black drake, 2 black/white ducks, 1 blue duck, 1 grey/blue w/white head duck. The pic of the littlest ones hatched May 21st were fm the lighter grey/blue w/white head duck & black drake. I've tried finding pic's of Muscovy ducklings w/color ID's but I can't find much consistancy.​

 

[MDC]

Unless your birds carry another color you're only going to get black/blue/silver from blacks and blues. It takes 2 blues to make a silver.

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Thanks Muscovy! I think the different down colors threw me off. All those little yellows will probably be black or black & white. Browns will be black and I'm hoping some of those lighter brown/yellow ducklets will be blues. The gal I bought my adults fm had some nice chocolates and chocolate w/white in her flock but didn't want to sell them. I was hoping there were some chocolate genes mixed in these somewhere. How do you get lavenders?

 

[MDC]

If you've got a good eye and the right lighting you can generally form a fairly good idea of what color your barreds will be although you cannot tell if it'll be a pied/barred bird until they start to feather. If they're black, chocolate, or blue you can tell by the tint to the tail feathers.

I don't think any of the ducklings in your photo are brown enough to be chocolates.

This is a batch of chocolates with a single blue-fawn.

To get self-blue (lavender) you have to have a pastel gene somewhere. Best way to get one is to have one...or a carrier.

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Thanks Muscovy, You've been a great help.

I just won't worry about it and enjoy watching them feather out closely. I'd like to be able to pick out the blues for those who want them. I've put your website in my favorites and hopefully will add my location to your map in the future.

 

[MDC]

You're welcome. I had a page up on the MSN Muscovy Duck group that closed and for some dumb reason I didn't move a lot of that information over so I ended up losing quite a bit of stuff I'd gathered over the years...well, last night by some strange reason I found some of the info. I'd lost soooo...I was able to put together a short thing on genetics.

http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html

That could help a little bit. Looking at it now on a smaller screen the page isn't perfectly formatted. Looked good on my laptop at the time, though!

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Thanks again. Yes, your info will help me out. Glad you were able to retreive some of it. I was able to refer your breeders map to a Michigan gal who was looking for Muscovies and was a good 3hr or more fm us.