I mean just with the Mallard variety without any added dilutions or different phases. I’ve had Mallards that are very light, to earth brown. Your duck may possibly be trout, as that makes them lighter.
Here’s the Buff Orpingtons genotype they do have the blue dilution.
Also, according to Ashton’s Colour Breeding in Domestic Ducks, this is correct. Buff is Bl/bl+, Blonde is Bl/Bl, and Brown is bl+/bl+. You might have blonde Orpingtons.
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Like Blue Swedish, Buff Orpingtons don’t breed true to colour. You get 25% blonde, 50% Buff, and 25% Brown I’m pretty sure from talking to breeders. Blondes I think are homozygous blue, Buff is heterozygous and brown is homozygous no blue. I will have to double check.
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any tips about breeding Magpies to standard colour? I find that it’s always helpful to get tips from experienced breeders. I am currently working on recreating the breed here in Australia, and good colour and markings is already a noticeable challenge.
AvGen Poultry has imported a few breeds from the UK into Australia. Including Vorwerks, Lakenvelders, Welsummers, French Marans, English Marans, Sumatras, Buff Orpingtons, Buff Cochins, White Cross Langshans and La Fleche. Shame they import any duck breeds, but biosecurity is pretty strict here.
Not relevant to ducks, but there’s a species of fish I watched a video about yesterday that does change from female to male it was pretty interesting. I’ll see if I can find the link.
Here’s the link: