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[MagpieDucks]

Blue fawn×blue fawn will give 50% blue fawn, 25% pastel and 25% grey...

Yep! And if you cross a Pastel with a Gray you get 100% Blue Fawn.

 

[MagpieDucks]

Have to look up to be sure, but she hatched last June... and she is 445 grams...

That's one tiny duck!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Yep! And if you cross a Pastel with a Gray you get 100% Blue Fawn.

Correct! Because blue fawn is grey with 1 blue gene, pastel is grey with 2 blue genes... and pastel will pass a blue gene to every single offspring...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Button's first egg.... shell-less... poor girl strained a lot, I gave her a warm soak, coconut oil lube and 50mg calcium citrate.... she popped it out in my arms just before 3am this morn...

 

[WVduckchick]

Correct! Because blue fawn is grey with 1 blue gene, pastel is grey with 2 blue genes... and pastel will pass a blue gene to every single offspring...

So...similar to BBS in chickens? ding ding.

 

[MagpieDucks]

So...similar to BBS in chickens? ding ding.

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[Ravynscroft]

So...similar to BBS in chickens? ding ding.

Exactly! Same blue gene...

 

[Ravynscroft]

If you want to get more technical, more like wheaten, blue wheaten and splash wheaten...

And blue (bibbed, etc) without the wildtype (grey) pattern base breeds same... blue, black, and silver in US... silver in the US is the equivalent of splash in chickens... in the UK silver is what we call Snowy...

 

[WVduckchick]

Now don't go trying to overextend my little brain power ..

 

[Ravynscroft]

Now don't go trying to overextend my little brain power ..

It took a lot of repetition to get it through my own little pea brain!!