If I have both a silver headed and a blue headed aussie spotted drakes that breed with a blue or sil

[fowlsessed]

Then will the ducklings be the color of one or the other drakes, or mutts. I read that you can mix one color with another and your duckling will be 50% 50% of the parent birds color. but how about if you get multiple drakes on one duck?
thanks again, everyone is always really helpful.

 

[Oregon Blues]

I can't make heads nor tails of the question.

If you breed a purebred Australian Spotted to a purebred Australian Spotted, you will get purebred Australian Spotted ducklings. If you mix colors, you might or might not get SOP colors on the ducklings.

If you breed them to a Blue ???? that isn't a purebred Australian Spotted, you will get mutts.

 

[fowlsessed]

My bad, I know it doesn't make sense, I just can't figure out how to word it. But I'll try again. There are three varieties of australian spotted ducks, blue headed, green headed, and silver headed. You can mix any two of those colors and the resulting ducklings will be a percentage of the parents, for example: green headed to green headed gives you 100% green headed. But, if you breed a green headed with a silver headed then you get 50% green headed and 50% silver headed. This applies with any cross of any of those colors with the exeption of blue headed to blue headed, in which you'll get all three colors in the resulting ducklings. So now that you understand that (I hope) I'll state my question again. Which I actually think this question is more of a general breeding question more so than a question regarding just aussies, but you just needed to know that I CAN mix two of those colors and get pure offspring. So here it is, If I have a green headed duck and both a silver headed and green headed drake breed with that duck, then will they have both fertilized the same egg or each one a different egg. hope it makes a little more sense.
thanks again

 

[Oregon Blues]

Each egg only has one father. If you have two drakes you can get ducklings with different fathers in the clutch, but each duckling will be sired by a single different drake.

 

[fowlsessed]

Each egg only has one father. If you have two drakes you can get ducklings with different fathers in the clutch, but each duckling will be sired by a single different drake.

GOOD TO KNOW, thanks.

 

[sianara]

ETA: I just read your post # 3 again and see you already understand the ratios but I will leave the link below anyway for anyone else who might want to read it. There is a lot of info...

Check out this link below and scroll down to page 127 under BREEDING HINTS and you will see the possibility of breeding the three colors and what color each pairings offspring will be:

Green head to Green head = all green head offspring
Green head to Blue head = half green heads and half blue heads
Green head to Silver head = all blue heads
Blue head to Blue head = all three colors in a ratio of 1 green to 2 blue to 1 silver
Blue head to Silver head = half Blue head and half Silver head
Silver head to Silver head = all Silver head
My pair of blue heads produced 4 ducklings two years ago and they were exactly this ratio of 1 green, 2 blue and 1 silver

http://books.google.com/books?id=sB...lian spotted ducks breed silver heads&f=false

 

[Duck Breeder]

My bad, I know it doesn't make sense, I just can't figure out how to word it. But I'll try again. There are three varieties of australian spotted ducks, blue headed, green headed, and silver headed. You can mix any two of those colors and the resulting ducklings will be a percentage of the parents, for example: green headed to green headed gives you 100% green headed. But, if you breed a green headed with a silver headed then you get 50% green headed and 50% silver headed. This applies with any cross of any of those colors with the exeption of blue headed to blue headed, in which you'll get all three colors in the resulting ducklings. So now that you understand that (I hope) I'll state my question again. Which I actually think this question is more of a general breeding question more so than a question regarding just aussies, but you just needed to know that I CAN mix two of those colors and get pure offspring. So here it is, If I have a green headed duck and both a silver headed and green headed drake breed with that duck, then will they have both fertilized the same egg or each one a different egg. hope it makes a little more sense.
thanks again

If you mate silvers and silvers they will all be silvers if yo mate blue head and blue head hen 50% of the offspring will be Blue heads 25% green head and 25% silvers will you have any silvers or blues to sell next year Green head with a blue head you will get 50% green and 50% blue silver head with a green head offspring will all be blues you will never get a mutt I have some whites that came fome a green head and a blue head hen very rare