Which runner drake would make more unique colored ducklings--a black drake or a fawn+white?

[OneEggToRuleThemAll]

Hey y'all! Right now, I've got a variety of 10 week old runner ducklings. Some are from Metzer, some I hatched. I am only keeping one drake and trying to choose between a fawn+white and a black drake, both from Metzer.

I have two blue hens, two black hens, one fawn+white (all from Metzer), and one silver, one chocolate with a white bib, and two blue'ish-mocha+white that I hatched from a brother/sister pair of local mixed runners.

Which drake would produce the most unique-colored runner ducklings when bred with the different colored females that I have? I'd really love some lavenders! Is that even possible with the colors I currently have?

I'd love to keep both drakes for more color variety, but I will not keep more than one runner drake at a time ever again lol. Learned that lesson the hard way...the dirty wee buggers lol.

Anyone with a better understanding of duck genetics have any suggestions for me? It'd be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I can only show what can come from a Black Runner drake and a Fawn and White female both from Metzers

 

[KathiQuacks]

The Fawn & White male will offer at least 5 colorations.
Black, Blue, Chocolate, and Lavender (all pied), and Fawn & White. Not sure what will come from your mixed hens.
Also, you’ll have some ducklings, depending on who their mother is, that are sex-linked, meaning you can tell their sex from hatch based on their coloration.

Black would allow for at least 4 variations. Black, Black pied, Black bibbed, and Blue. Maybe a 5th Blue pied from your mixed hens. No sex-linking.

I guess the Fawn & White will give the most color variety, and the Black the most pattern variety. I would pick Fawn & White, personally.

 

[OneEggToRuleThemAll]

The Fawn & White male will offer at least 5 colorations.
Black, Blue, Chocolate, and Lavender (all pied), and Fawn & White. Not sure what will come from your mixed hens.
Also, you’ll have some ducklings, depending on who their mother is, that are sex-linked, meaning you can tell their sex from hatch based on their coloration.

Black would allow for at least 4 variations. Black, Black pied, Black bibbed, and Blue. Maybe a 5th Blue pied from your mixed hens. No sex-linking.

I guess the Fawn & White will give the most color variety, and the Black the most pattern variety. I would pick Fawn & White, personally.

This is exactly the info I was looking for. Thank you!!