We have a trio of solid chocolate Muscovy. One just hatched a bunch of babies and one is bright yellow. The others are correctly marked for chocolates.
Are pastel ducklings yellow? Is there some other recessive trait that can pop up as a yellow duckling?
We had a lavender drake years ago but...
I will try to get some pics this week. Some have gold leakage for sure. Some are showing some birchen influence. A few look pretty good. Were it not for the hawk attack a few weeks ago I would be in a good place with my breeding program!
HELP!!!
I need a cuckoo rooster! We are moving from NY to VT and while we were away moving the pigs goats and sheep we had a hawk attack back in NY. I lost my best cuckoo pair and my back up rooster, but still have lots of young hens from this pair.
He needs to be from dark egg lines and...
That's what he told me a few weeks ago. Maybe he still has some hens, but he's not breeding them this year due to lack of sales and interest. I got a group of his retiring hens and have kept them longer than I should have! I have a few left. Maybe I will get a boy to reproduce them this year.
I don't have a refined eye for Anconas, but she is lovely! I have some OLD hens from Will. I never had a rooster so I never was able to reproduce mine. Do you have a breeding group? Will has stopped breeding them, and I was hoping to get some more from his line.
They sure can. But for some reason rarely do. The closer you live to a factory farm poultry house the better the chances of this sort of transmission. I have a friend who ships thousands of chicks a year. Many years ago he did a mass cull to clean up a mycoplasma outbreak and has never seen it...