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Those kiddo pictures are TOOOO cute.
Thanks to everyone who has made this pip party awesome.
I hope everyone has plenty of fuzzy cuddliness to tide them over for now. I'd love to hear your hatch round-ups!
My hatch is now pretty much over, though a few unpipped eggs will stay in the bator for a couple days just in case. Here's my round-up:
Set 13 Indian Runner duck eggs on August 10. Twelve eggs made it to lockdown on 9/4.
Hatch began with a pip on 9/6 (AM) and finished (I believe) with a hatch on 9/8 (late PM).
9 of the original 13 hatched successfully (69%). Of those, one duckling was helped out and appears to have a leg problem that may correct itself (61% healthy ducklings).
Of the hatched eggs: 4 blacks, 4 blues (3 of which are genotypically not precisely blue), 1 yellow.
Interesting genetic outcome of this hatch: Five ducklings are blue/blue cross, which, statistically, should produce 25% black, 50% blue, 25% silver. For this hatch, it produced 80% black, 20% blue (the one truly genotypically blue hatchling).
I also learned that a blue drake crossed with a fawn & white hen produces two colors: a pale blue (probably the result of one blue dilution gene like the usual blue color, but only one extended black--regular blue has two extended black genes & one blue dilution) with yellow breast, and a yellow duckling (mature color not yet known, probably genotypically two blue dilutions and one extended black). It makes sense for there to be only two color types from this cross, as there is only one genetic marker that can be different in the offspring, which is the presence of either one or two blue dilution genes.
Round-ups anyone? Are you happy with your hatch? How are your babies doing? Any final pictures? I'll post more here as soon as all my babies are in the brooder.
Thanks to everyone who has made this pip party awesome.
My hatch is now pretty much over, though a few unpipped eggs will stay in the bator for a couple days just in case. Here's my round-up:
Set 13 Indian Runner duck eggs on August 10. Twelve eggs made it to lockdown on 9/4.
Hatch began with a pip on 9/6 (AM) and finished (I believe) with a hatch on 9/8 (late PM).
9 of the original 13 hatched successfully (69%). Of those, one duckling was helped out and appears to have a leg problem that may correct itself (61% healthy ducklings).
Of the hatched eggs: 4 blacks, 4 blues (3 of which are genotypically not precisely blue), 1 yellow.
Interesting genetic outcome of this hatch: Five ducklings are blue/blue cross, which, statistically, should produce 25% black, 50% blue, 25% silver. For this hatch, it produced 80% black, 20% blue (the one truly genotypically blue hatchling).
I also learned that a blue drake crossed with a fawn & white hen produces two colors: a pale blue (probably the result of one blue dilution gene like the usual blue color, but only one extended black--regular blue has two extended black genes & one blue dilution) with yellow breast, and a yellow duckling (mature color not yet known, probably genotypically two blue dilutions and one extended black). It makes sense for there to be only two color types from this cross, as there is only one genetic marker that can be different in the offspring, which is the presence of either one or two blue dilution genes.
Round-ups anyone? Are you happy with your hatch? How are your babies doing? Any final pictures? I'll post more here as soon as all my babies are in the brooder.
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