Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Terri O]

Sorry about the poor quality of those pics...I had to use my super zoom to get close enough! They are a bit timid! Terri O--whose life seems to be all about blurry lately!

 

[Terri O]

OK--one more...I couldnt resist! You see, I too am fascinated by genetics! My daughter is going to study them at UW Madison in fall and I cant wait! What do you think I need to breed this duck to to get more like her? (and does she have a specific name or is she just a mixed muscovy?)

Thanks Annarie! And anyone else who would like to venture a guess too! Terri O

 

[fordmommy]

Good morning everyone! And what a beautiful one it is. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. I have a rooster trying to crow. Very pathetic too. My oldest Barred Silkie Cochin that I got eggs from Buck Creek Chickens. He's the only one trying right now. Everyone else is still cherping and clucking.

Here's a pic of the 2 Barred Silkie Cochin Roosters. "Little Blue" is the bigger one in the back. He's the one trying to crow. And "Munchkin" is in the front. Munchkin is the perfect example of his breed. Great feathering for sure.


Here's a pic of the 2 females I got. Well- I'm 90% sure. Notice the one on the right is "silkied".


And here's a pic of "Henry". Notice the colors on his back. That is just way cool to me. I have never seen anything like that.


And last but not least....my Frizzle.

 

[Kool Aid Queen]

well went to investigate a bit and there are no eggs ... wondering if the other female we got a month ago may have done something or if .. gracie knew her eggs were duds and ate them.... dont know if they do that or not ... so the mystery cont.....


also for those of you who have had your chickens go broodie and they have hatched..... how many actually live... we have prob had 12 hatch and only 4 have lived... the one hen i think is killing hers .. we try to take them away when we see them but have found a few dead in coop or if we have gotten them away they have died in there box under the heat lamp.... .... not sure what is going on there either lol

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

Quote:
that's a chocolate muscovy

with 2 yellow
last years hatch, if i rember right 30 or so ducklings, they shared a nest
this year one of these hatched 16 with 6 yellow

 

[Sweetfolly]

Quote:
that's a chocolate muscovy
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/19130_baby_scoveys_002.jpg
with 2 yellow
last years hatch, if i rember right 30 or so ducklings, they shared a nest
this year one of these hatched 16 with 6 yellow

Yep. Muscovies are technically a whole different species from all other breeds of domestic ducks that were derived from Mallards, so they have their own set of color rules - which I'm a little more fuzzy on, but there's a great website on it here: http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html

The brown gene that makes the Chocolate color in Muscovies is sex-linked just like in the Mallard-derived breeds - the way the sex-linkage works, its going to be hard to get more like her without breeding her to another Chocolate drake - pure Chocolate to pure Chocolate will produce 100% Chocolate ducklings if there aren't any hidden recessive genes involved. If you bred her to a Lilac Muscovy drake you'd get 50% Chocolate and 50% Lilac ducklings (theoretically) - that's the only way you're going to be able to get more like her in one generation. Now, if you had a Chocolate drake you could breed to a Black duck, you'd get all Black male ducklings, and all Chocolate female ducklings.

I dunno about those three(?) ducklings of yours though, Terri - I'm not good with 'Scovy ducklings. The black & white brother and sister look like Magpies - they're not part Muscovy are they? They don't look it - but if you breed any other breed of duck with a Muscovy, the offspring will be sterile "mules" incapable of successfully breeding - just so you know! Anyways, the color pattern on those two is Black Magpie (even if the breed isn't Magpie), it'll breed true to color - so you'd get more ducklings that look like them.

Kool Aid Queen - That is a mystery. I have no idea! I've been wondering why my old Pekin hasn't been laying any eggs this year; I have her in with a Hookbill drake and I think the cross would be pretty neat, but I haven't had a single egg from her all year. Well, guess what I found last night? A MASSIVE nest of eggs buried in a muddy corner of their run. Some of those eggs had to be months old.

fordmommy - Henry is gorgeous!

Edited to make it clearer that I was talking about Terri's gangly, teenage 'Scovy ducklings, not the little, fluffy ones BCC posted!

 

[raimnel]

Soooo, the duckling that I got from Jim...... were they chocolate Muscovy's? Whats with 2 of them being ALL brownish with very little yellow and 2 having the yellowish face and yellow spot? in BCC's pic of the ducklings theres an all brown in front and then the yellow faces, that is what my duckling look like. What will that look like when their bigger and does that mean ANYTHING about the sex? and did I hear right that muscovies don't "quack"? what kind of duck don't quack? how rude, now i'm gonna have to get another breed of ducks! oh darn for me. right?

BCC so what does the different colorings mean on those Muscovies?

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

do you mean as ducklings? the yellow ones did turn chocolate but have white edged feathers on the body, and yes 'scoy's do not quack. the one thing with the chocolate color is it fades as the feathers get older, so after molt there are real dark brown, then slowly turn light brown.

 

[Kool Aid Queen]

funny thing gracie is sitting on her nest again ... go figure ... wonder if she knows there are no eggs.. and how long will she sit on no eggs ???

went to check for any eggs piping in the coop and there she was in the corner on her nest .. she really is a funny duck lol

 

[beckyschicks]

Hello everyone! I love the duck pics! I was talking to DH last night and was reading (catching up is more like it) and saw the ducky pics and I want some. I just don't know where I would keep them in the winter.

I'll have to think about it. So I posted my chicks on craigslist and had the rudest man email me about them. First he wanted them, then he just wanted to come and see them, then he didn't want them because they are all roosters. I tried to explain to him that there is only one rooster in the group of 5, but he wouldn't listen. He was 100% sure they were all roosters. (and yes you can do the stupid voice when you read that) Whatever I told him. Then I told him that I changed my mind and didn't want him to have them anyway, because if he was that clueless... Rude, I know, but he made me so mad. So if anyone wants some chicks let me know. The whole craigslist thing is frustrating. Well better go get some work done. Talk at you all later!

Also only one out of my 10 girls are laying. Two others are broody. Why? Anyone know if it's the heat or something else. Any ideas let me know. One out of ten doesn't fill egg orders.