Hi.
(I wanted to reply to you earlier,
@notallducksinmypond, but I have not been able to connect with my account for these last days...!!!)
ohh im sorry... yes the internet is sometimes a real problem
I don't think I know enough about the genes (yet at least) to make use of them in conversation...?
No, i dont want to say that, but if you call something a color you assume is for example blue fawn , you could put "blue fawn (MM Blbl)" into your text, so somebody with a different background (mostly language or regionwise) can think "oh i know that, but we call it "xy" " so people can understand better and help better instead of thinking "ahw, never heard of blue fawn? i don´t know anything about that"
Yes.
And in Europe, we still call this phase "Fawn and White".
Even though some non-European people disagree with the fact OUR Brown Pied Indian Runners ARE really (a phase of) Fawn and White...
yes, but thats another problem... some people want to talk about colors without taking care of the genes behind them, so for example american fawn & white (pied apricot mallard) does not
look like our fawn and white (pied mallard) therefore "IT IS NOT THE SAME" *angrystompingtoddlervoice*
and in real life it is the same, with just one different gene
A darker version of Apricot Trout, but in the drake's appearance only.
"Blue Fawn" is actually Blue (Bl, bl+) diluted Mallard (M+).
Not "li/li"...!
"Pastel" is also called "Apricot Mallard".
So, I don't think I need to tell you you would just need to replace "li/li" from "Apricot Trout" by "Li+/Li+" to get "Pastel"... right?
(You do know more than me about genes!)
so we go: Mallard (no blue) - Blue Fawn (one blue) - Pastel (two blue)
as in: trout (no blue) - blue trout (one blue) - apricot trout (two blue)
nice !
But regarding the Butterscoth colour... I have NO idea what genes would be different from the Apricot Trout colour!
(I need to learn MORE!!)
no insurance on this one... i just looked at some "butterscotch" calls on google... and did
NO real research on genetics!
i tend to silvermallard/ appleyard/light phase restricted mallard (MR/MR, li/li) as base for the butterscotch... bright, bold eyestripes, white bellys , double colored feathers with white
That is great!
And that would be wonderful for me, but you would have to go in Auvergne then... and where I live, there is nothing; so you would mostly visit cows...!
Ah, ah, ah!
(For the record : the cows in my area ARE amazing.)
Do you like the countryside?
...The cold and the rain...?
My departement is actually beautiful, and I am happy to live here. But there are people (including tourists) complaining about the humid climate, and the fact "there is nothing but cows"...
Still, if you come here : the landscape are magnificent, and people are generally kind (even though they can act kind of cold with people they don't know).
(And my dad is German, so language won't be an issue in case our accent is difficult to understand.)
I really like cows, i´m going to get my bachelors degree in agriculture next spring!
I did a little google, it looks beautiful where you live!
I have them!!
But : I
really would need to open a thread to ask some advices, because apparently, I can NOT make a lighter phase of Fawn and White "just" by adding Blue...?
(I don't know...!!! People are saying so different things!!)
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(Here is my beautiful Patch!!)
who says you can´t do that?
to my knowledge, the runner pattern/pied is dominant (the almighty
eend calculator says so too)
so in orger to get something blue(ish) pied (blue or blue mallard/blue fawn)
Mr. Patch has to get on a date with your splash lady... if hes heterozygote pied, half of the ducklings would show some white markings and if hes homozygote all of them should
If that doesn´t work i would be surprised...
