What color is this Muscovy?

[spectrumranch]

What color would you consider this Muscovy hen?

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[poultrykeeper08]

Amazing !!
Chocolate or buff ripple

 

[spectrumranch]

I was thinking Buff because she is so much lighter than our Chocolates.

some of our normal Chocolates: we have some solid chocolate colored but most have white heads.

Here is another pic of the hen with some others: (chocolate on the right, lilac on the left, blue ripple on far left)

 

[lowcountrypoultry]

I would say Buff.

 

[Cottage Rose]

Maybe a buff pied since it has white on its tail.
It looks like its from a mixed color breeding.
Do you know what color the parents are?
I don't think its a standard color and its feathers have no ripple pattern
(just lacing) so its not a chocolate ripple.

 

[conny63malies]

fawn laced

 

[spectrumranch]

Cottage- would you consider the 2 chocolates in the second photo- Chocolate Pieds because of the white heads?

conny- what is the difference between the buff & fawn color?

 

[keeperofthehearth]

fawn laced

Nice, Connie, I like it. Did you come up with that? Or is it official color designation?

No matter, it works!

 

[conny63malies]

Quote:
Nice, Connie, I like it. Did you come up with that? Or is it official color designation?

No matter, it works!

Dont know if it is a official color.I have a duck that kind of has the same color and was told by somebody on here she was fawn.

She is way to light for chocolate.maybeif you mix white and milk chocolate.

 

[Cottage Rose]

I'm so not an expert when it comes to genetics but I know the basics of Muscovy color crosses.
See my article "Muscovy Duck Color Breeding".
http://thewaterfowlplace.webs.com/educationalarticles.htm

"Fawn" or "Fawn Laced" are made up names, not a decription of a specific genetic color in the Muscovy world.
There are "blue fawns" (AKA lilacs) which are the results of breeding a chocolate drake to a blue duck resulting in
black and blue males that carry chocolate and lilac and chocolate females.
Lilac x lilac = 50% lilac, 25% chocolate and 25% buff offspring.

Spectrumranch...White heads are a specific genetic type
in Muscovies.
So what you have is chocolate whiteheads.

The duck in question has white on its tail so its probably a pied
with limited white or a color that is the result of a random color cross.