Yes I'll try to get another photo. But I'm not exactly sure what that's going to accomplish? The dark one is brown and yellow and the rest are yellow.
The lamp makes it hard to see the right colors and patterns. There’s a couple different breeds with ducklings that are brown and yellow + all yellow.
None of those are Silver Appleyards. None of them have the restricted allele which results in the Mohawk.
The heat lamp puts a red color on everything, and can be hard to tell exact colors of the birds peach fuzz.
That's what I thought, Holderread farms never mentioned anything but yellow ducklings with a dark mohawk and tail, but Metzer has photos on their site of some mallard looking babies and then photos of (what is probably Holderread) Silver appleyard ducks as what they're supposed to grow up to be. And now some people are calling these "dark phase" which really pisses me off because I feel like that's just a trash excuse for crappy breeding.
The restricted allele is dominant to wild type (normal mallard). So, the wild type can hide from many generations back and result in mallard looking ducklings every once in a while. But, the ducklings in your picture have other genes not found in Appleyards.
