creamthing
In the Brooder
- Sep 9, 2024
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Looking for thoughts on this ducks coloring 
I just recently bought her, she was listed as a snowy call hen a bit over a year old but her colors look very different from my snowies and other snowies I've seen. Is she a snowy at the super light end of the spectrum on coloring/marking, or does she maybe have some other color gene in her mix?
I'm currently trying to learn as much as possible about duck genetics before trying to put together my first breeding flock but information on call duck coloring seems to be a bit hard to come by, especially locally with the smaller list of recognized colors in the US
The biggest differences I noticed are that her colors are much lighter, her colored feathers are white edged with a coffee stain to coffee brown center with no black spot in the center, and her speculum feathers are coffee brown rather than iridescent black

I just recently bought her, she was listed as a snowy call hen a bit over a year old but her colors look very different from my snowies and other snowies I've seen. Is she a snowy at the super light end of the spectrum on coloring/marking, or does she maybe have some other color gene in her mix?
I'm currently trying to learn as much as possible about duck genetics before trying to put together my first breeding flock but information on call duck coloring seems to be a bit hard to come by, especially locally with the smaller list of recognized colors in the US
The biggest differences I noticed are that her colors are much lighter, her colored feathers are white edged with a coffee stain to coffee brown center with no black spot in the center, and her speculum feathers are coffee brown rather than iridescent black