White and Chocolate Swedish Ducks

I've been asking around about my white duckling (who is now feathered) but there's not many people around me familiar with Swedish ducks, so I figured I would ask here!

I'm not good with genetics but I have a silver hen, a chocolate hen, and that batch was a black Swedish drake (related by one parent to my hens) of 17 eggs I got 10 ducklings, 8 black, 1 blue, and the 1 white one. She has a very pale orange/white bill, and in the sunlight her eyes appear blueish. I bought the parents as day olds and didn't see the parents so I don't have that genetic information to share.

I've been told A ) my chocolate hen must be a cross because only blue and black exist which after looking up a few things I know is wrong, B ) my white duckling is a pekin cross, which is impossible because I only own the three ducks

Please help me figure this out on what happened to get a white duck. (I love her and might keep her to breed to my new blue drake when she's older)
Hi!
I purchased two ducklings that was said to be khaki campbells, but now I don't think so. They do look like the chocolate Swedish ducks that you have described. What do you think?
 
I've been asking around about my white duckling (who is now feathered) but there's not many people around me familiar with Swedish ducks, so I figured I would ask here!

I'm not good with genetics but I have a silver hen, a chocolate hen, and that batch was a black Swedish drake (related by one parent to my hens) of 17 eggs I got 10 ducklings, 8 black, 1 blue, and the 1 white one. She has a very pale orange/white bill, and in the sunlight her eyes appear blueish. I bought the parents as day olds and didn't see the parents so I don't have that genetic information to share.

I've been told A ) my chocolate hen must be a cross because only blue and black exist which after looking up a few things I know is wrong, B ) my white duckling is a pekin cross, which is impossible because I only own the three ducks

Please help me figure this out on what happened to get a white duck. (I love her and might keep her to breed to my new blue drake when she's older)
Hi!
I purchased two ducklings that was said to be khaki campbells, but now I don't think so. They do look like the chocolate Swedish ducks that you have described. What do you think?
 
I've been asking around about my white duckling (who is now feathered) but there's not many people around me familiar with Swedish ducks, so I figured I would ask here!

I'm not good with genetics but I have a silver hen, a chocolate hen, and that batch was a black Swedish drake (related by one parent to my hens) of 17 eggs I got 10 ducklings, 8 black, 1 blue, and the 1 white one. She has a very pale orange/white bill, and in the sunlight her eyes appear blueish. I bought the parents as day olds and didn't see the parents so I don't have that genetic information to share.

I've been told A ) my chocolate hen must be a cross because only blue and black exist which after looking up a few things I know is wrong, B ) my white duckling is a pekin cross, which is impossible because I only own the three ducks

Please help me figure this out on what happened to get a white duck. (I love her and might keep her to breed to my new blue drake when she's older)
I meant to post this pic in the last reply. Sorry!
 

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Look like Swedish to me but they could be crosses? I'm not an expert on the specific features yet, but the bibs and size and stance looks right to me for a Swedish.....chocolate is mainly in females though if that helps (for swedish)
 
I've been asking around about my white duckling (who is now feathered) but there's not many people around me familiar with Swedish ducks, so I figured I would ask here!

I'm not good with genetics but I have a silver hen, a chocolate hen, and that batch was a black Swedish drake (related by one parent to my hens) of 17 eggs I got 10 ducklings, 8 black, 1 blue, and the 1 white one. She has a very pale orange/white bill, and in the sunlight her eyes appear blueish. I bought the parents as day olds and didn't see the parents so I don't have that genetic information to share.

I've been told A ) my chocolate hen must be a cross because only blue and black exist which after looking up a few things I know is wrong, B ) my white duckling is a pekin cross, which is impossible because I only own the three ducks

Please help me figure this out on what happened to get a white duck. (I love her and might keep her to breed to my new blue drake when she's older)
She is most like likely a silver splash Swedish. Sweds do not breed true if you breed black drake to blk hen you will.not get all blk ducklings. If you breed a silver splash to a black you will get approx 50% blue, 25 % black and 25% silver
I separated my females for 17+ days and made sure she was with no males and then introduced a drake I wanted to breed. This is what my research has brought me to learn hatchery do this to ensure they sell a pure breed so I do this too. I mated blk on blk and black on silver they have just started to hatch, so far I have 1 blue and 2 pure white beaks and feet are white they do not look Swedish at all but I know they are can't wait to see what they look like feathered out.
 
I meant to post this pic in the last reply. Sorry!
Your blues are a male and female I would seperate the hen for 17 days and try again to mate just the swedish..you have a different breed white bird there idk what breed is but the ducklings you hatch from her will always be mixed breed if the blue drake is the mate.
 
Ok im not alone here . Just had my first hatch this year . I got my black swedish from Metzer farm . This summer my one hen went broody and hatched 7 ducklings out of the 7 three are solid white . Now my one drake has a lot of white in him so I was thinking he did most of the breeding
 

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