does anyone have proven lavender muscovy in australia?

ian43 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:41 pm **Posts:** 31

hi all.

i'm wondering if anyone has proven lavender muscovy in australia. i've been looking for a while and have seen silver, blues or fumes called lavender. have even bought a "lavender" thats turned out silver, but havent found anyone that has lavender and has tested it out with breeding to prove it. considering that lavender is in the standards now it'd be nice to know that they exist here :-D

lavender is a recessive gene. so if a lavender bird is mated to a black bird not carrying the lavender gene you would get 100% black offspring. mating those black offspring together would give you black and lavender offspring proving that it was actually a lavender bird.

cheers,

Ian

ColacWaterfowl · **Posted:** Fri Jan 04, 2013 8:29 pm

ian4379 wrote:

lavender is a recessive gene. so if a lavender bird is mated to a black bird not carrying the lavender gene you would get 100% black offspring. mating those black offspring together would give you black and lavender offspring proving that it was actually a lavender bird.

cheers,

Ian

Thats correct the splits back to lavender should produce 50% lavender and I have seen what was referred to as lavender but I think more self blue than lavender.

Lavender [not australia] http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Duck ... vMusc.JPEG
Self blue [not australia] http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Duck ... lfBlD.JPEG

ian43 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:41 pm **Posts:** 31

i think self blue and lavender are the same thing, just different names over there.

ColacWaterfowl · **Posted:** Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:23 pm

The lavender is darker or at least should be. The 2 picts I think show the shade difference but its not a massive difference

ma27 · **Joined:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:24 pm **Posts:** 69

There was a female at Royal Melbourne many years ago she was beautiful the pen she was in was getting the sun and she was purple very pretty

oozcorpse · **Joined:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:15 am **Posts:** 2715

abt 10yrs ago I met a woman that had what looked to be Lavender
the offspring also looked to be Lavender
no idea if she is still into birds tho as most of her birds were stolen 7yrs ago

no not me :lol:

DavidP · **Joined:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:36 am **Posts:** 1

I to have heard of breeders with the lavenders but not seen them first hand but I have no doubt they would exist as its not that difficult to produce

ian43 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:41 pm **Posts:** 31

it seems to be the same old thing as chocolate, same answers, "yep they are around" but there's no proof! no one is willing to say "yes, i have them and they breed genetically true, here's some photo's"

my thought is that if the gene isnt in the country its mighty hard to produce your own gene mutation.

ColacWaterfowl · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:07 am

ian4379 wrote:

it seems to be the same old thing as chocolate, same answers, "yep they are around" but there's no proof! no one is willing to say "yes, i have them and they breed genetically true, here's some photo's"

my thought is that if the gene isnt in the country its mighty hard to produce your own gene mutation.

Could be they are worried about having them stolen? I have friends that have rare fowls but will never tell anyone they do its just the way it is with fowl theft on the rise

2_Drakes · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:56 pm

Your right I know a guy that has mutation mandarin ducks but no way will he show pictures or anything. I can't even tell you what state he lives in sworn to secrecy

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