OldSchoolSarge
Chirping
My understanding of the chocolate color is that the male needs to have at least 1 chocolate gene and the female cannot have any, then their female babies will be sex-linked (chocolate/brown). I was particularly watching my buff male with my cayuga females out of curiosity, but the 2 chocolate babies I got didn't come out of cayuga eggs, which makes me think that at least 1 of my Silver Appleyard females doesn't carry chocolate genes?!? I could be totally wrong, though! Pretty sure I read about duck genetics on BYC, but it was last year and I didn't save the article.At this point, only thing for certain I can say is that the father is NOT the Magpie! Of the other two possibilities, both were blues but not solid blue. This was them last Fall:
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The one on the left looked more blue mallard, the one on the right had a more solid blue body (apart fro the chest). And pretty sure the one on the right had a pure Kakhi Campbell as a mother. Their father was solid blue.